{"id":328254,"date":"2020-11-02T05:41:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T05:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=328254"},"modified":"2020-11-02T05:41:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T05:41:20","slug":"air-quality-in-delhi-remains-in-very-poor-category","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/air-quality-in-delhi-remains-in-very-poor-category\/","title":{"rendered":"Air quality in Delhi remains in &#8216;Very Poor&#8217; category"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-pollution-choke-to-death-or-plant-to-breathe\/pollution-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-305156\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-305156 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/pollution-2-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"622\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/pollution-2-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/pollution-2-768x497.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/pollution-2-1024x663.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/pollution-2-696x451.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/pollution-2-1068x692.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/pollution-2-648x420.jpg 648w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/pollution-2-1920x1244.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><\/a>The air quality in Delhi remained in \u2018very poor\u2019 category on Monday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The Air Quality Index (AQI) stood at 362 in <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Sonia Vihar, 345 in Bawana, 326 in Patparganj and 373 in Jahangirpuri; all four in &#8216;very poor&#8217; category, as per Central Pollution Control Board.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">AQI stood at 302 in ITO, in &#8216;very poor&#8217; category.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The national capital again witnessed a thin layer of haze today morning, reducing visibility in various parts of the city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Amid the rise in pollution levels, people are having problems with breathing. The &#8216;very poor&#8217; category affects the health of people and can lead to respiratory illness on prolonged exposure, experts said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">An AQI between 0-50 is considered \u2018good\u2019, 51-100 is \u2018satisfactory\u2019, 101-200 \u2018moderate\u2019, 201-300 \u2018poor\u2019, 301-400 \u2018very poor\u2019 and 401-500 is considered as \u2018severe\/hazardous\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The air quality in Delhi remained in \u2018very poor\u2019 category on Monday morning. The Air Quality Index (AQI) stood at 362 in Sonia Vihar, 345 in Bawana, 326 in Patparganj and 373 in Jahangirpuri; all four in &#8216;very poor&#8217; category, as per Central Pollution Control Board. AQI stood at 302 in ITO, in &#8216;very poor&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":305156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[9724,429,13582],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328255,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328254\/revisions\/328255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}