Announcing the winter action plan, Kejriwal said the Pusa biodecomposer that prevents stubble burning will be sprayed on 5,000 hectares of farmland this year against 4,400...
The action plan launched last year focused on stubble management, dust pollution, vehicular emission, open burning of garbage, industrial pollution among others.
Punjab Agriculture Minister Gurmeet Singh Khudian said the department has received as many as 1,58,394 applications from farmers to avail subsidy for Crop Residue Management (CRM)...
Smoke from the burning crops, together with traffic pollution and a fall in wind speeds, is blamed for the smog that envelopes Delhi, the world's most...
In July, Delhi and Punjab governments had jointly sent a proposal to the Centre and the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) to help them give...
Air pollution: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) said farmers cannot be blamed for the situation as they are forced to burn stubble due to the...
40,677 farm fire incidents recorded between September 15 and November 11, according to Ludhiana-based Punjab Remote Sensing Centre data. This is 27 per cent less when compared...
Delhi's 24-hour average air quality index deteriorated from 295 on Thursday to 346 on Friday, primarily due to raging farm fires and favourable conditions for transport...
Due to stubble burning, many places in Haryana on Monday evening reported air quality indices in 'poor' and 'very poor' categories while Punjab witnessed air quality...
The Union Minister also raised an alarm as Delhi recorded seven "very poor" air quality days in October this year compared to none in October 2021
An Air Quality Index (AQI) between zero and 50 is considered "good", 51 and 100 "satisfactory", 101 and 200 "moderate", 201 and 300 "poor", 301 and...
The CAQM (Commission for Air Quality Management) has said the increased incidents of stubble burning in Punjab this year "is a matter of serious concern"
CAQM stated that about 70 per cent of farm fires during the current paddy harvesting season were reported only from six districts namely Amritsar, Firozpur, Gurdaspur,...
The Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) attributed the relatively better air quality this time to the reduction in stubble burning incidents in Punjab, better meteorological conditions...
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) a cocktail of emissions from firecrackers and stubble burning in neighbouring states deplete the air quality
