{"id":377871,"date":"2020-10-12T11:17:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T05:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=377871"},"modified":"2020-10-12T15:24:52","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T09:54:52","slug":"central-political-control-board-aap-alleges-bias-in-pollution-body-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/central-political-control-board-aap-alleges-bias-in-pollution-body-action\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Central Political Control Board\u2019: AAP alleges bias in pollution body action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Aam Aadmi Party [AAP] on Thursday alleged bias on the part of the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), saying the pollution watchdog has remained \u201csilent\u201d on the issue of norm violation by least 13 thermal power plants operating in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a press conference, AAP chief spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj said the pollution body should be called the \u201cCentral Political Control Board\u201d. The party also demanded that the power plants be shut down immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Bharadwaj also alleged that over 2,300 brick kilns were operating across NCR without adopting the SC-mandated technological measures to curb pollution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Aam Aadmi Party [AAP] on Thursday alleged bias on the part of the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), saying the pollution watchdog has remained \u201csilent\u201d on the issue of norm violation by least 13 thermal power plants operating in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab. Addressing a press conference, AAP chief spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj said the pollution body should be called the \u201cCentral Political Control Board\u201d. The party also demanded that the power plants be shut down immediately. Bharadwaj also alleged that over 2,300 brick kilns were operating across NCR without adopting the SC-mandated technological measures to curb pollution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377871","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}