{"id":378613,"date":"2020-10-15T11:16:39","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T05:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=378613"},"modified":"2020-10-15T12:32:02","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T07:02:02","slug":"delhi-pollution-electricity-generators-to-be-banned-from-15-oct-essential-services-exempted-says-dpcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/delhi-pollution-electricity-generators-to-be-banned-from-15-oct-essential-services-exempted-says-dpcc\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi pollution: Electricity generators to be banned from 15 Oct, essential services exempted, says DPCC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) on Wednesday banned the use of electricity generator sets of all capacities, running on diesel, petrol, kerosene from 15 October to tackle air pollution in the winter season. However, essential and emergency services like hospitals, railways will remain exempted, according to the DPCC.<\/p>\n<p>The decision comes a day after the national capital\u2019s air quality on Tuesday deteriorated to the \u201cvery poor&#8221; category for the first time this season. Government-run monitoring agency System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research, or SAFAR, stated that the air quality index was not likely to improve for the next two days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) on Wednesday banned the use of electricity generator sets of all capacities, running on diesel, petrol, kerosene from 15 October to tackle air pollution in the winter season. However, essential and emergency services like hospitals, railways will remain exempted, according to the DPCC. The decision comes a day after the national capital\u2019s air quality on Tuesday deteriorated to the \u201cvery poor&#8221; category for the first time this season. Government-run monitoring agency System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research, or SAFAR, stated that the air quality index was not likely to improve for [&hellip;]<\/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":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378613","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=378613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}