Stubble burning: Farmers continued to set crop residue ablaze, thus contributing to the over 600 stubble-burning incidents that came about in Punjab on Saturday (November 18), defying the Supreme Court’s orders to cease the farm fires which is a serious reason behind air air pollution within the neighbouring areas together with the nationwide capital. Air high quality indices remained in ‘very poor’ and ‘poor’ classes in lots of elements of Haryana and Punjab. Several farmers in Punjab continued to burn straw even after the district police chiefs and deputy commissioners in numerous districts visited fields to verify stubble-burning incidents.
The Supreme Court had on November 7 directed Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan to make sure that the farm fires had been put to finish “forthwith”, amid rise within the air air pollution in Delhi-NCR, saying it can not let “people die” as a consequence of air pollution.
Farm fireplace incidents
According to officers, out of the 637 farm fires reported on Saturday, Moga recorded most such instances at 120, adopted by 111 in Fazilka, 69 in Ferozepur, 57 in Bathinda, 51 in Muktsar, 48 in Barnala and 43 in Faridkot. On the identical day in 2021 and 2022, the state had seen 680 and 701 farm fires respectively.
The whole variety of such incidents rose to 33,719 with the newest farm incidents, in response to the Punjab Remote Sensing Centre knowledge.
Out of a complete of 33,719 farm fires recorded from September 15 until November 18, Sangrur is main with most stubble burning instances of 5,501, adopted by 3,067 in Ferozepur, 2,753 in Bathinda, 2,290 in Moga, 2,207 in Mansa, and a pair of,160 in Barnala. The state reported 69,980 and 48,489 stubble-burning incidents within the corresponding interval of 2021 and 2022 respectively.
Paddy straw burning in Punjab and Haryana is taken into account to be one of many causes behind the rise in air air pollution ranges in Delhi in October and November.
AQI at numerous locations
Meanwhile, Haryana’s Sonipat reported an Air Quality Index (AQI) of 390, adopted by 340 in Fatehabad, 314 in Faridabad, 301 every in Gurugram and Hisar, 296 in Bhiwani, 273 in Rohtak and 262 in Kaithal.
In Punjab, Bathinda reported AQI at 329, adopted by 264 in Jalandhar, 232 in Patiala, 219 in Ludhiana, 208 in Khanna, 195 in Amritsar and 168 in Rupnagar. Chandigarh recorded an AQI of 141.
An AQI between zero and 50 is taken into account ‘good’, 51 and 100 ‘passable’, 101 and 200 ‘reasonable’, 201 and 300 ‘poor’, 301 and 400 ‘very poor’, and 401 and 500 ‘extreme’.
(With PTI inputs)
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