NEW DELHI: Delhi government on Thursday said 95% of coal and oil-driven industries have shifted to compressed natural gas (CNG) in just three months, which also resulted in reducing air pollution in the capital.
\nAccording to a report submitted by government think-tank Dialogue and Development Commission, of the 1,542 industrial units in Delhi that were either coal or oil-driven, 1,457 shifted to the greener fuel in just one quarter while efforts were being made to make the remaining 85 CNG-adaptive.
\nDDC submitted the report to chief minister Arvind Kejriwal recently.
\nSpeaking on the findings of the think-tank, Kejriwal said Delhi was the only state in the country where air pollution registered a significant dip in the last few years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: Delhi government on Thursday said 95% of coal and oil-driven industries have shifted to compressed natural gas (CNG) in just three months, which also resulted in reducing air pollution in the capital. According to a report submitted by government think-tank Dialogue and Development Commission, of the 1,542 industrial units in Delhi that were either coal or oil-driven, 1,457 shifted to the greener fuel in just one quarter while efforts were being made to make the remaining 85 CNG-adaptive. DDC submitted the report to chief minister Arvind Kejriwal recently. Speaking on the findings of the think-tank, Kejriwal said Delhi […]<\/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":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292876","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=292876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}