{"id":38014,"date":"2025-12-19T22:57:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T17:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=38014"},"modified":"2025-12-19T22:57:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T17:12:42","slug":"indias-delhi-to-install-air-purifiers-in-schools-to-combat-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/indias-delhi-to-install-air-purifiers-in-schools-to-combat-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s Delhi to install air-purifiers in schools to combat pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The Delhi government has decided to install 10,000 air purifiers in government-run schools to protect children from air pollution, announced Delhi&#8217;s Education Minister Ashish Sood on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>He said the installation of air purifiers would be carried out in a phased manner, beginning with 10,000 classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The aim is ensuring a healthier learning environment for students,&#8221; Sood said, adding that the government was focusing on sustained administrative action rather than short-term campaigns to tackle pollution.<\/p>\n<p>Delhi witnessed extremely high air-pollution levels over the past few days, as the Air Quality Index (AQI) once touched the 700-mark. On Friday, some areas in the city reported an AQI of 400.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Central Pollution Control Board, the AQI is classified as follows: 0-50 is considered &#8220;good,&#8221; 51-100 is &#8220;satisfactory,&#8221; 101-200 is &#8220;moderate,&#8221; 201-300 is &#8220;poor,&#8221; 301-400 is &#8220;very poor,&#8221; 401-500 is &#8220;severe,&#8221; and beyond 500 is severe plus emergency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi government has decided to install 10,000 air purifiers in government-run schools to protect children from air pollution, announced Delhi&#8217;s Education Minister Ashish Sood on Friday. He said the installation of air purifiers would be carried out in a phased manner, beginning with 10,000 classrooms. &#8220;The aim is ensuring a healthier learning environment for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38015,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38014\/revisions\/38015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}