The air high quality panel has additionally requested these states to submit a compliance report by August 30. (File)
New Delhi:
Forward of the harvesting season, the Fee for Air High quality Administration (CAQM) has requested Delhi and neighbouring states to make sure the adoption and utility of a normal protocol developed by ISRO for estimation of crop residue burning fireplace occasions utilizing satellite tv for pc information.
The fee, mandated to plot and execute plans to stop and management air air pollution within the nationwide capital area and adjoining areas, has additionally requested Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan to develop a time-bound complete motion plan, in session with stakeholder businesses chargeable for monitoring and reporting of agriculture residue burning occasions, primarily based on the protocol.
The fee had harassed the necessity to develop and implement a standardised methodology throughout NCR and adjoining areas for the monitoring of fireplace occasions at conferences with the Indian House Analysis Organisation (ISRO) at a gathering held in December final 12 months.
The protocol has been ready in session with stakeholder businesses like State Distant Sensing Facilities and Indian Agricultural Analysis Institute, it stated.
“Now, subsequently, in view of the compelling want to watch and management air air pollution from stubble burning, the fee…hereby directs authorities of NCT of Delhi to make sure adoption and utility of the usual protocol for estimation of crop residue burning fireplace occasions utilizing satellite tv for pc information,” the instructions learn.
The fee stated the protocol needs to be adopted uniformly throughout the states of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Delhi, and never restricted to Punjab and Haryana alone.
The panel on air high quality has additionally requested these states to submit a compliance report on the adoption of the protocol by August 30.
The northern states of Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh appeal to consideration in the course of the paddy harvesting season between October 15 and November 15.
Farmers set their fields on fireplace to shortly clear off the crop residue left behind after harvesting and earlier than cultivating wheat and potato. It is among the primary causes for the alarming spike in air pollution in Delhi-NCR.
Regardless of a ban on stubble burning in Punjab and Haryana, farmers proceed to defy it as there’s a brief window between the harvesting of paddy and sowing of wheat.
The excessive value of handbook or mechanical administration of straw is a significant motive why farmers select to burn it.
State governments are offering 50 to 80 per cent subsidy to farmers and cooperative societies to purchase trendy farm tools for in-situ administration of paddy straw, putting in paddy straw-based energy vegetation and working an enormous consciousness marketing campaign in opposition to stubble burning.
However these measures are but to make any vital influence on the bottom.
In accordance with a latest examine by the Council on Vitality, Surroundings and Water (CEEW), a Delhi-based not-for-profit coverage analysis establishment, a comparatively longer stubble-burning interval and unfavourable meteorological circumstances had been primarily chargeable for Delhi’s worsening air high quality in winters final 12 months.
The evaluation confirmed the contribution of stubble burning to Delhi’s PM2.5 ranges exceeded 30 per cent for seven days (between October 10 and November 25) in 2020 as in opposition to three days in 2019.
(Apart from the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV employees and is revealed from a syndicated feed.)
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