Stubble burning

While Kejriwal claimed that his govt in Punjab would solve the chronic stubble-burning crisis, the rising pollution in Delhi illustrates that he has failed in his endeavour.

Gopal Rai said, "The stubble burning in Punjab this year is halved as compared to the last year. Punjab's stubble smoke does not have as much impact on Delhi as that of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh."

A group of farmers in Punjab's Bathinda district courted controversy after they allegedly forced a government official, who was part of a team to prevent farm fires, to burn the stubble lying in a field on Friday.

Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar's Officer on Special Duty (OSD) Jawahar Yadav said that Arvind Kejriwal's silence about the NASA data creates suspicion.

AAP has repeatedly blamed stubble burning in Punjab and Haryana for the deteriorating pollution in Delhi.

The Khattar govt in Haryana plans to install 120 compressed biogas plants for using stubble for biogas production.

The Delhi government has written to the Centre to conduct a joint meeting of the NCR states on stubble burning.

Kejriwal said that biomass burning is responsible for one-fifth of the state's pollution, which rises considerably during the cold months when security guards and drivers burn wood and other biomass, leading the city to become a gas chamber due to temperature anomaly.

NHRC said in a press release, "The State Governments have to provide harvest machines to get rid of those stubbles but they have failed to provide an adequate number of requisite machines and other measures."

CJI said that the e matter of stubble burning is not judicially amendable, and therefore the court can’t take it up immediately.