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Due to non-fulfillment of this criteria, connected October 3, a three-judge seat headed by Justice Abhay Oka stated, “If determination are nary existent experts successful the tract of aerial pollution, this Court volition person to workout powers nether Article 142 of the Constitution of India to see immoderate experts successful the field. Two posts of NGO members are inactive kept vacant.”
The Environment Ministry has appointed 3 members — 2 experts from non-governmental organisations and 1 stakeholder from the Agriculture assemblage — to the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM), the aerial show told the Supreme Court Tuesday.
In an affidavit submitted to the apical court, the CAQM besides listed monitoring and enforcement actions taken by the Punjab and Haryana governments to power workplace fires. This included lodging 920 FIRs; marking reddish entries successful the records of 437 farmers; and imposing fines of Rs 11 lakh connected offenders successful Punjab from September 15 to October 20. During the aforesaid play successful Haryana, 653 workplace occurrence incidents were reported, retired of which fines were imposed successful 327 cases amounting to astir Rs 8 lakh, 93 FIRs were lodged, and reddish entries were made successful gross records of 379 farmers.
On October 16, the SC had pulled up the Punjab and Haryana governments implicit non-prosecution of violators recovered blameworthy of stubble burning and summoned the authorities main secretaries to look earlier it connected Wednesday for an explanation.
The aerial prime monitoring assemblage is tasked with amended coordination, research, identification, and solution of problems surrounding the aerial prime scale and related matters successful NCR and adjoining areas. According to the CAQM Act, 2021, determination needs to beryllium 3 members from NGOs having acquisition successful combating aerial contamination and the Commission should besides person a stakeholder subordinate from the Agriculture sector.
Due to non-fulfillment of this criteria, connected October 3, a three-judge seat headed by Justice Abhay Oka stated, “If determination are nary existent experts successful the tract of aerial pollution, this Court volition person to workout powers nether Article 142 of the Constitution of India to see immoderate experts successful the field. Two posts of NGO members are inactive kept vacant.”
The members were appointed to the Commission done an bureau bid by the Environment Ministry issued Saturday. The NGO members are Arvind Wable, president of the Board of Trustees astatine the World Wide Fund for Nature India, and Dr Arunabha Ghosh, Founder-CEO astatine the Council connected Energy, Environment and Water. The stakeholder subordinate from the Agriculture assemblage is Dr P K Sahoo, caput and main idiosyncratic successful the Agriculture Engineering Division astatine the ICAR-Indian Agriculture Research Institute.
Meanwhile, the Commission successful its submission stated that 3 sub-committee meetings were held connected October 8, 14 and 17 respectively connected stubble burning. On relationship of non-compliance with the CAQM’s absorption successful the implicit elimination of stubble burning, notices person been issued to 212 nodal oregon supervisory officers successful Punjab and 372 nodal oregon supervisory officers successful Haryana, said the body.
“The Commission noted that effectual implementation and enforcement of the enactment program to destruct paddy stubble burning has not been forthcoming and paddy stubble burning events inactive being recorded are indicative of non-compliance of the direction(s) issued by the Commission to states to instrumentality their ain enactment plans…,” stated the CAQM.
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