{"id":290361,"date":"2019-09-04T06:53:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T06:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=290361"},"modified":"2019-09-04T06:53:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T06:53:19","slug":"aai-declares-20-more-airports-singe-use-plastic-free-takes-total-number-to-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/aai-declares-20-more-airports-singe-use-plastic-free-takes-total-number-to-55\/","title":{"rendered":"AAI declares 20 more airports singe-use plastic free, takes total number to 55"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has banned single-use plastic at 20 more places, taking the total number of its airports to get this green initiative to 55. The 20 airports declared \u201csingle-use plastic-free\u201d last Friday are: Allahabad, Aurangabad, Belgaum, Bhuj, Dibrugarh, Dimapur, Gaya, Gorakhpur, Jabalpur, Jamnagar, Jodhpur, Jorhat, Kangra, Khajuraho, Leh, Rajahmundry, Rajkot, Silchar, Surat and Tuticorin.<br \/>\nThese airports now join the ranks of 35 others that were declared single-use plastic free in phase-I. These are: Agartala, Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Bagdogra, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Calicut, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Dehradun, Goa, Guwahati, Imphal, Indore, Jaipur, Jammu, Kolkata, Lucknow, Madurai, Mangalore, Patna, Port Blair, Pune, Raipur, Ranchi, Srinagar, Tiruchirappalli, Tirupati, Trivandrum, Udaipur, Vadodara, Varanasi, Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam.<br \/>\n\u201cPrime Minister Narendra Modi had during his Independence Day speech urged citizens to stop using single-use plastic bags by October 2, 2019. We are acting on that clarion call,\u201d said an AAI official. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has banned single-use plastic at 20 more places, taking the total number of its airports to get this green initiative to 55. The 20 airports declared \u201csingle-use plastic-free\u201d last Friday are: Allahabad, Aurangabad, Belgaum, Bhuj, Dibrugarh, Dimapur, Gaya, Gorakhpur, Jabalpur, Jamnagar, Jodhpur, Jorhat, Kangra, Khajuraho, Leh, Rajahmundry, Rajkot, Silchar, Surat and Tuticorin. These airports now join the ranks of 35 others that were declared single-use plastic free in phase-I. These are: Agartala, Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Bagdogra, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Calicut, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Dehradun, Goa, Guwahati, Imphal, Indore, Jaipur, Jammu, Kolkata, Lucknow, Madurai, Mangalore, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}