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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | PMO panel on Delhi air reviews crop burning options -Dipak K Dash

PMO panel on Delhi air reviews crop burning options -Dipak K Dash

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published Published on Dec 5, 2017   modified Modified on Dec 5, 2017
-The Times of India

NEW DELHI: With the Sri Lankan cricket team's dramatic protest against playing conditions highlighting the mounting embarrassment over Delhi's pollution, a PMO-headed panel met on Monday and reviewed the need for more accurate real-time monitoring of air quality and measures to control stubble burning.

The monitoring of air quality and pollutants was considered necessary so that the sources of Delhi's bad air could be mapped and understood, and medium-term solutions devised. There has been considerable discussion on the role of vehicular emissions, dust, local coal fires and stubble burning in raising air pollution levels in Delhi-NCR.

The panel, headed by Nripendra Mishra, principal secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, held its first meeting on Monday. The committee, which draws representatives from the Centre and neighbouring states including the Delhi government, saw Punjab suggesting stronger financial incentives for farmers not to burn stubble.

Sources said the Centre is considering encouraging the use of wheat and paddy straw and bagass (cane residue) for the production of ethanol with farmers likely to earn up to Rs 2,500 per tonne. Another measure is subsidised sale, already offered by Haryana, for purchase of "happy seeder" machines that reduce stubble on the field and allow planting of seeds. The cover of straw can also act as protection against winter frost.

The Centre is also coming around to the view that coal-fired power plants around Delhi in a radius of 100 km might need to be shut down to make a difference to the capital's air quality. Wider use of sprinklers to spray water over a large area to control dust and the introduction of electric buses are other options on the table.

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The Times of India, 5 December, 2017, https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/pollution/pmo-panel-on-delhi-air-reviews-crop-burning-options/articleshow/61923256.cms


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