After SC rap, Delhi’s pollution panel deploys flying squads to check stubble burning

The squad volition coordinate with the authorities/officers astatine the territory level, appointed by the respective State governments, CAQM said successful a statement.

The determination comes days aft the Supreme Court said the CAQM “needs to beryllium much active” to cheque contamination owed to stubble burning successful areas nether its jurisdiction.

“The squads volition study to the Commission and CPCB connected a regular basis, including steps taken to forestall further incidents of paddy stubble burning successful the allocated district,” the connection said.

CAQM, meanwhile, said it volition beryllium mounting up a ‘Paddy Stubble Management’ Cell astatine Mohali to intimately coordinate with the Agriculture Department and different related agencies successful Punjab and Haryana.

A seat of Justices AS Oka and Augustine George Masih said past week, “We are of the presumption that though the committee has taken definite steps, the committee needs to beryllium much active. The committee indispensable guarantee that its efforts and directions issued really construe into reducing the occupation of pollution.”.

The seat noted that the committee was acceptable up for the purposes of amended coordination, research, recognition and solution of problems surrounding the aerial prime scale (AQI) and matters connected therewith.

Following are the districts wherever flying squads person been deployed:

Punjab

• Amritsar
• Barnala
• Bathinda
• Faridkot
• Fatehgarh Sahib
• Fazilka
• Firozpur
• Jalandhar
• Kapurthala
• Ludhiana
• Mansa
• Moga
• Muktsar
• Patiala
• Sangrur
• Tarn Taran

Haryana

• Ambala
• Fatehabad
• Hisar
• Jind
• Kaithal
• Karnal
• Kurukshetra
• Sirsa
• Sonipat
• Yamunanagar