{"id":328622,"date":"2020-11-15T07:03:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T07:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=328622"},"modified":"2020-11-15T07:06:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T07:06:57","slug":"air-quality-deteriorates-to-severe-category-post-diwali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/air-quality-deteriorates-to-severe-category-post-diwali\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi: Air quality deteriorates to &#8216;severe category &#8216; post-Diwali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/air-quality-deteriorates-to-severe-category-post-diwali\/delhi-air-quallity\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-328623\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-328623 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/delhi-air-quallity-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"524\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/delhi-air-quallity-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/delhi-air-quallity-534x429.jpg 534w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/delhi-air-quallity-524x420.jpg 524w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/delhi-air-quallity.jpg 535w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><\/a>The air quality in the national capital deteriorated to the severe category post-Diwali as smog shrouded Delhi NCR on Sunday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Despite a total ban by National Green Tribunal (NGT) on the sale or use of all kinds of firecrackers till November 30. People burst firecrackers across Delhi NCR.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Air Quality Index (AQI) at ITO area stood at 461, whereas AQI at Anand Vihar stood at 460, according to the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) data.<\/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<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">According to reports, on Saturday, Delhi fire services received 206 fire calls. However, the overall situation was under control except for one major fire in Mundka that claimed one life.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The air quality in the national capital deteriorated to the severe category post-Diwali as smog shrouded Delhi NCR on Sunday morning. Despite a total ban by National Green Tribunal (NGT) on the sale or use of all kinds of firecrackers till November 30. People burst firecrackers across Delhi NCR. Air Quality Index (AQI) at ITO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":328623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[9724,429],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328622"}],"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=328622"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328626,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328622\/revisions\/328626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/328623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}