{"id":378825,"date":"2020-10-16T10:59:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T05:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=378825"},"modified":"2020-10-16T11:49:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T06:19:49","slug":"will-ask-cpcb-to-shut-11-coal-fired-power-plants-near-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/will-ask-cpcb-to-shut-11-coal-fired-power-plants-near-delhi\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Will ask CPCB to shut 11 coal-fired power plants near Delhi\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai on Thursday said he will ask the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and a Supreme Court-mandated pollution control authority to shut the 11 coal-fired power plants operating within 300 kilometres of Delhi within a week.<\/p>\n<p>Rai said the Delhi Government has been making all efforts to bring pollution levels down, &#8220;but we become helpless when pollution from neighbouring states affects the city&#8217;s air quality&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Rai on Thursday undertook a surprise inspection of the construction sites of the drain being constructed along the main road of Burari in its series of anti-dust operations in Delhi which are being implemented to combat the issue of dust pollution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai on Thursday said he will ask the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and a Supreme Court-mandated pollution control authority to shut the 11 coal-fired power plants operating within 300 kilometres of Delhi within a week. Rai said the Delhi Government has been making all efforts to bring pollution levels down, &#8220;but we become helpless when pollution from neighbouring states affects the city&#8217;s air quality&#8221;. Rai on Thursday undertook a surprise inspection of the construction sites of the drain being constructed along the main road of Burari in its series of anti-dust operations in Delhi which [&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":[130,244,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378825","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=378825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}