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The suspended officials see agriculture improvement officers, agriculture supervisors, agriculture inspectors and agriculture supervisors successful 9 districts—Panipat, Jind, Hisar, Karnal, Kaithal, Ambala, Fatehabad, Kurukshetra and Sonipat. (File Photo)
The Haryana Government has suspended 24 officials of its agriculture section for failing to instrumentality capable steps to curb stubble burning, a large root of aerial contamination successful the authorities and the National Capital Region.
The suspended officials see agriculture improvement officers, agriculture supervisors, agriculture inspectors and agriculture supervisors successful 9 districts—Panipat, Jind, Hisar, Karnal, Kaithal, Ambala, Fatehabad, Kurukshetra and Sonipat.
On Monday, the aerial prime scale successful Kurukshetra touched 423 portion astatine slightest 14 different cities successful the authorities recorded an AQI supra 300. These were Hisar (315), Ballabgarh (312), Bahadurgarh (336), Gurugram (369), Faridabad (307), Charkhi Dadri (313), Kaithal (329), Panchkula (304), Jind (364), Karnal (295), Rohtak (322), Panipat (315), Sirsa (313) and Yamunanagar (349).
Measures nether the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) person been implemented crossed the NCR, which besides covers Haryana’s Faridabad, Gurugram, Nuh, Rohtak, Sonipat, Rewari, Panipat, Palwal, Jhajjar, Charkhi Dadri, Mahendragarh, Bhiwani, Karnal and Jind districts.
The stage-2 restrictions came a week aft the Commission for Air Quality Management imposed stage-1 measures, which included curbs connected operation activities. The wellness section has advised radical to deterioration N-95 look masks.
The suspension orders were issued connected October 20 by Rajnarayan Kaushik, Director of the Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
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