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Punjab has been responsible for the smog around Delhi in October. Burning of stubble, used to remove paddy crop residues from fields before the sowing season, pollutes the air in the neighboring state of Delhi. Bhagwant Mann said that farmers in Punjab neither want to burn stubble nor cultivate paddy. He said that paddy is cultivated in the absence of alternative crop MSP.
Delhi’s air quality is continuously deteriorating. Stubble burning has again come into focus in Punjab and Haryana. However, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann said the issue is widespread across North India. After this, Mann took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said that if PM Modi can stop the Ukraine war as he showed in the campaign, then can’t he stop the burning of stubble in North India and the subsequent smoke? Bhagwant Mann said that the issue of stubble burning is not limited to any one state. This is an issue of entire North India. If PM Modi can stop the Ukraine war as he has shown in the advertisement, can’t he stop the smoke here? They should make all the states sit together, give compensation, call scientists.
Punjab has been responsible for the smog around Delhi in October. Burning of stubble, used to remove paddy crop residues from fields before the sowing season, pollutes the air in the neighboring state of Delhi. Bhagwant Mann said that farmers in Punjab neither want to burn stubble nor cultivate paddy. He said that paddy cultivation is done in the absence of alternative crop MSP. Bhagwant Mann said that when paddy is produced, farmers are praised, but what about the stubble? Then they want to collect the fine. We do not know whether the smoke from Punjab reaches Delhi or not, but the smoke first harms the farmer and his village.
The Punjab Chief Minister said the state was demanding compensation for farmers to ban stubble burning, but the Center asked him to instead encourage farmers against the practice. He said that encouragement does not work, there is a need to take practical steps. We have given 1.25 lakh machines. We have talked to NGOs.
