{"id":2514,"date":"2016-04-06T17:38:30","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T09:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/06\/delhi-teenager-sells-his-carpooling-website-ahead-of-second-phase-of-odd-even-car-restrictions\/"},"modified":"2016-04-06T17:38:30","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T09:38:30","slug":"delhi-teenager-sells-his-carpooling-website-ahead-of-second-phase-of-odd-even-car-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/06\/delhi-teenager-sells-his-carpooling-website-ahead-of-second-phase-of-odd-even-car-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi teenager sells his carpooling website ahead of second phase of odd-even car restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Akshat-mittal\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.0.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA0LzA2LzNhL0Frc2hhdE1pdHRhLjg3MDU1LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/537e1f2b\/131\/Akshat-Mittal.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Delhi+teenager+sells+his+carpooling+website+ahead+of+second+phase+of+odd-even+car+restrictions&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F06%2Fodd-even-website-orahi%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F06%2Fodd-even-website-orahi%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>A few months ago, when Delhi decided to experiment with car restrictions to reduce air pollution, 13-year-old Akshat Mittal hit upon the idea of starting a carpooling website called odd-even.com. Now, the teenager has sold his website to Indian ride-sharing company Orahi for an undisclosed sum.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/01\/05\/delhi-odd-even-plan-results\/\">World&#8217;s most polluted city Delhi starts its odd-even experiment to reduce air pollution<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The acquisition comes right before the start of the second phase of the odd-even scheme on Apr. 15. The scheme bans private cars on alternate days, allowing cars with odd-numbered plates to run on odd dates and those with even-numbered plates to play only on even dates. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/06\/odd-even-website-orahi\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/india\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">India<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/carpooling\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Carpooling<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/us-world\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Us World<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/work-play\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Work Play<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/ride-sharing\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Ride Sharing<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/wHI1C7X-aNg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, when Delhi decided to experiment with car restrictions to reduce air pollution, 13-year-old Akshat Mittal hit upon the idea of starting a carpooling website called odd-even.com. Now, the teenager has sold his website to Indian ride-sharing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/06\/delhi-teenager-sells-his-carpooling-website-ahead-of-second-phase-of-odd-even-car-restrictions\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}