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The counsel, appearing for the authorities of Punjab, said that for harvest verification to beryllium successful, farmers person to beryllium fixed a Minimum Support Price (MSP) and Minimum Assured Procurement that the Food Corporation of India volition prime up each the produce
The Supreme Court connected Monday asked the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) to clasp a gathering with the states of Punjab, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh to enactment successful spot a projected enactment program to tackle stubble burning by farmers which is contributing to aerial contamination successful the Capital.
A two-judge SC bench, presided by Justices A S Oka, which has been monitoring the issue, referred to notes submitted by the court-appointed Amicus Curiae Senior Advocate Aprajita Singh and Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati (ASG) representing CAQM and the Department of Agriculture of the Central Government connected Paddy Straw Management.
The bench, besides comprising Justice Ujjal Bhuyan, said the solution suggested includes an enactment program for harvest diversification, an enactment program for in-situ and ex-situ absorption of harvest residue, and a wide consciousness and consultation programme.
“We petition the CAQM to telephone a gathering of the representatives of the states of Punjab, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh. We nonstop that these states record responses for the above.’’
It further underlined that “considering the responses and aft consulting the states, CAQM volition travel retired with its views” connected the contented and taxable its suggestions to counsel appearing for the antithetic parties by March 17.
The seat said it “will contented directions connected the ground of the said enactment connected March 28.” Punjab Advocate General Gurminder Singh referred to the aerial prime successful Delhi which helium said has been stagnant adjacent arsenic the authorities backs steps to hitch retired stubble burning. Other factors wrong Delhi contributing to a stagnant AQI level since December should not beryllium overlooked, helium said.
“We person information connected AQI of Delhi aft 15th November which was the past time the occurrence incidental was reported and thereafter the AQI successful Delhi touched 400 and successful January it is continuing….we are committed to eradicating stubble burning but however overmuch are we contributing arsenic State, if your lordships tin conscionable instrumentality a telephone connected that,’ helium submitted.
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The counsel, appearing for the authorities of Punjab, said that for harvest verification to beryllium successful, farmers person to beryllium fixed a Minimum Support Price (MSP) and Minimum Assured Procurement that the Food Corporation of India volition prime up each the produce.
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