Stubble burning

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.

Patwari Sukhdeep Singh Sodhi has been kept hostage by villagers of Jeewan Wala village in Faridkot in Punjab for inspecting stubble burning

Delhi LG Vinai Kumar Saxena writes to Bhagwant Mann asking him to take urgent and substantive measures to control stubble burning in Punjab

Haryana has not only seen a considerable decline in the number of occurrences of stubble burning this year