{"id":9446,"date":"2010-08-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/08\/25\/pollution-control-board-calls-for-green-ganesh\/"},"modified":"2010-08-25T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T12:00:00","slug":"pollution-control-board-calls-for-green-ganesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/08\/25\/pollution-control-board-calls-for-green-ganesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Pollution Control Board Calls For Green Ganesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/expressbuzz.com\/cities\/bangalore\/pollution-control-board-calls-for-'green'-ganesh\/195929.html\">expressbuzz.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BANGALORE, INDIA, August 5, 2010: The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board on Thursday called on Bangaloreans to celebrate Ganesha festival in an eco-friendly way. <\/p>\n<p>Tupil Venkatesh, an environmental consultant, said there was a need for 12 million Ganesha statues for the 60 million population in the state. &#8220;An average murti weighs about 4.4 lbs. and contains around 7 oz. of paint, which contains 4 per cent lead,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Sadashivaiah said the pollution control board has issued guidelines to inform people about how to make the celebrations eco-friendly. &#8220;This festival was started by Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak to unite Indians,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Let this festival unite us in moving towards a clean environment.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: expressbuzz.com BANGALORE, INDIA, August 5, 2010: The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board on Thursday called on Bangaloreans to celebrate,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}