{"id":161981,"date":"2024-10-26T10:46:44","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T10:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/26\/next-15-days-crucial-to-tackle-air-pollution-in-delhi-says-environment-minister-gopal-rai\/"},"modified":"2024-10-26T10:46:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T10:46:44","slug":"next-15-days-crucial-to-tackle-air-pollution-in-delhi-says-environment-minister-gopal-rai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/26\/next-15-days-crucial-to-tackle-air-pollution-in-delhi-says-environment-minister-gopal-rai\/","title":{"rendered":"Next 15 days crucial to tackle air pollution in Delhi, says Environment Minister Gopal Rai"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"899\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-114620130,imgsize-40344.cms?resize=1200,899&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Next 15 days crucial to tackle air pollution in Delhi, says Environment Minister Gopal Rai\" title=\"Next 15 days crucial to tackle air pollution in Delhi, says Environment Minister Gopal Rai\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-brcount=\"12\"><a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/delhi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Delhi<\/a> Environment Minister <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/gopal-rai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gopal Rai<\/a> emphasised the urgent need to tackle <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/air-pollution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">air pollution<\/a> across northern India, calling the next 15 days &#8220;crucial&#8221;. Following a key meeting with the <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/central-government\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Central government<\/a> on Friday, Rai held a press conference on Saturday. The meeting, attended by Union Ministers Shivraj Singh Chauhan and Bhupender Yadav, along with environment ministers from neighbouring states, aimed to assess and address the worsening air quality in the region. <\/p>\n<p><style><![CDATA[\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand p, #stock_pro.onDemand p{font-size: 14px;line-height: 1.28;}\n    \t    .onDemand .live_stock{left:17px;padding:1px 3px 1px 5px;font-size:12px;font-weight:600;line-height:18px;top:9px}\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand .sr_desc{margin:0 auto 0;}\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand .sr_desc{color: #024d99;margin-top:10px;}\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand .crypto .live_stock .lb-icon{8px 6px 5px 3px !important}\n    \t    #sr_widget.crypto.onDemand a.text{border-bottom:1px solid #ccc;padding-bottom:5px;display:block;width:100%}\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand .sr_desc .text p, #stock_pro.onDemand .sr_desc .text p{font-size:12px;font-weight:400;}\n    \t]]><\/style>\n<p><!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=toppotime:1--> Rai expressed concern over the delay in this year&#8217;s meeting and said, &#8220;Last year, a similar meeting was held in August, allowing us more time to strategise. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;This year&#8217;s meeting took place in the last week of October. Had it been conducted three months earlier, we could have tackled the pollution problem more effectively,&#8221; Rai said. <\/p>\n<p> According to Rai, Punjab has shown a promising downtrend in the <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/stubble-burning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stubble burning<\/a> incidents, with only 1,500 cases reported this year compared to nearly 5,000 cases in 2022. <\/p>\n<p>However, he noted an uptick in incidents in Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, which poses a significant risk to regional air quality. <\/p>\n<p><!--\/include_growfast.cms?pagename=article&skipcss=1potime:1--><br \/> &#8220;The next 15 days are crucial,&#8221; Rai warned, explaining that seasonal winds from the northwest can carry pollutants into Delhi and surrounding areas, intensifying the pollution crisis. &#8220;While stubble burning has reduced, the post-Diwali period will be critical,&#8221; he added.  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Following a key meeting with the Central government on Friday, Rai held a press conference on Saturday. The meeting, attended by Union Ministers Shivraj Singh Chauhan and Bhupender Yadav, along with environment ministers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-114620130,imgsize-40344.cms","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[721,5901,11531,14449,3495,2921,4652,41490,10540,2124,3479,7176,61908,9894],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161983,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161981\/revisions\/161983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}