{"id":121318,"date":"2021-08-27T09:42:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T09:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=121318"},"modified":"2021-08-27T09:42:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T09:42:53","slug":"first-smog-tower-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/first-smog-tower-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"First Smog Tower of India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: recently in which of the following city in India first Smog Tower of the<br>Country inaugurated?<\/strong><br>a) Mumbai<br>b) Delhi<br>c) Chennai<br>d) Ghaziabad<br><strong>Answer: (b)<br>Related Facts:-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On 23 August 2021; the first smog tower of the country inaugurated at Connaught Place in Delhi.<\/li><li>It should be known that Delhi is one of the most polluted cities in the world, and starting of smog tower here is a path-breaking milestone.<\/li><li>Chief Minister of Delhi on this occasion said, many such structures can be installed in the national capital if this pilot project yields results.<\/li><li>It&#8217;s a new technology to India, which has been imported from the US.<\/li><li>The structure will suck polluted air from above and release clean air from below.<\/li><li>According to Delhi CM Mr Kejriwal; it will purify 1,000 cubic metres of air per second.<\/li><li>The smog tower has 40 fans and 5,000 filters developed by experts at the University of Minnesota.<\/li><li>Tata Projects Limited (TPL) built the smog tower with technical support from IIT-Bombay and IIT-Delhi, which will analyse its data.<\/li><li>According to reports, the experimental tower in northern China has brought a noticeable improvement in air quality.<\/li><li>A Delhi government statement said the 24-metre-high smog tower at Connaught Place, one of the biggest commercial centres in the capital, is based on a downdraft air-flow model.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:-<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/delhi\/40-fans-5k-filters-24m-high-smog-tower-opens-in-cp\/articleshow\/85573665.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/delhi\/40-fans-5k-filters-24m-high-smog-tower-opens-in-cp\/articleshow\/85573665.cms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: recently in which of the following city in India first Smog Tower of theCountry inaugurated?a) Mumbaib) Delhic) Chennaid) GhaziabadAnswer: (b)Related Facts:- On 23 August 2021; the first smog tower of the country inaugurated at Connaught Place in Delhi. It should be known that Delhi is one of the most polluted cities in the world, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":121319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[2344],"class_list":["post-121318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nnews","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121320,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121318\/revisions\/121320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}