{"id":378605,"date":"2020-10-15T12:16:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T06:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=378605"},"modified":"2020-10-15T12:16:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T06:46:47","slug":"shut-thermal-plants-to-reduce-pollution-in-delhi-aap-leader-satyendar-jain-to-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/shut-thermal-plants-to-reduce-pollution-in-delhi-aap-leader-satyendar-jain-to-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Shut thermal plants to reduce pollution in Delhi: AAP leader Satyendar Jain to Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI:  Delhi health minister Satyendar Jain claimed that thermal power stations in and around the NCR are the biggest contributors to Delhi\u2019s air pollution. Jain said that he has also written a letter to the Union Power Minister RK Singh requesting him to shut down all the 11 polluting power plants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 2015, orders were passed to shut these thermal power stations within two years which was later revised to 2019 by the Central Government. In a bid to bring down the pollution of the National Capital the Delhi government shutdown the IP power plant in 2009, the Rajghat power plant in 2015 and Badarpur power plant in 2018 due to increased environmental concerns. Delhi is the only state where there is no thermal power station,&#8221; said Jain addressing a press conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Delhi health minister Satyendar Jain claimed that thermal power stations in and around the NCR are the biggest contributors to Delhi\u2019s air pollution. Jain said that he has also written a letter to the Union Power Minister RK Singh requesting him to shut down all the 11 polluting power plants. &#8220;In 2015, orders were passed to shut these thermal power stations within two years which was later revised to 2019 by the Central Government. In a bid to bring down the pollution of the National Capital the Delhi government shutdown the IP power plant in 2009, the Rajghat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,243,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378605","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}