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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Punjab says no money for technology to stop crop burning -Rohan Dua

Punjab says no money for technology to stop crop burning -Rohan Dua

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published Published on Nov 1, 2016   modified Modified on Nov 1, 2016
-The Times of India

CHANDIGARH: There is little chance of any let-up in air pollution in Punjab and the states of Delhi and Haryana post-Diwali as Punjab has expressed its inability to provide farmers money for alternative technology, citing lack of funds.

Following a rebuke from National Green Tribunal (NGT) on paddy burning last week, a cash-starved Punjab government has told the Centre that it does not have the money to implement its orders .

The Delhi government released a NASA image dated October 26 showing a haze blanket across north India due to crop residue burning in Haryana and Punjab, saying it was having a major adverse effect on the city's air quality.

A note sent by the Punjab government to the Centre, accessed by TOI, says, "The finance department observes that to implement the National Green Tribunal orders of October 19, 2015, on making agricultural equipment and machinery available to all concerned farmers by the state government... the expenditure is around Rs 1,583 crore. It is difficult for the finance department to make these funds available.

"It is therefore advised that the administrative department may approach the central government for providing a grant and the state can only provide nominal share if required." The machines needed to stop paddy burning are paddy straw, chopper shredder (16,000), happy seeder (13,400), rotavator (10,000), M B Plough (11,450), rake (5,400) and baler (5,400).

In 2014 and 2015, the Punjab government could provide only 14,173 rotavators, 392 happy seeders and 5086 zero till drills.

The Akali Dal government is now mopping up funds by fining the farmers caught burning the stubble anything between Rs 2,500 and Rs 15,000.

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The Times of India, 31 October, 2016, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/Punjab-says-no-money-for-technology-to-stop-crop-burning/articleshow/55150510.cms


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