-Scroll.in Built on the Wikipedia model and launched on November 3, Nyaaya also has guides for crime victims and accused. India has more than a thousand central laws, a larger number of state laws and a criminal justice system so complex, most of the population struggles to navigate it. A year ago, delhi-based lawyer Srijoni Sen decided to make this system a little easier for the masses, one step at a time....
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delhi air pollution: Can farmers be blamed? -Sayantan Bera
-Livemint.com Only 20% of delhi’s air pollution can be attributed to stubble burning by farmers in Punjab and Haryana, environment minister Anil Madhav Dave said on Monday New delhi: The spike in pollution levels in delhi’s air is an annual winter ordeal, so is burning of paddy stubble by farmers in neighbouring Punjab and Haryana after the crop is harvested. But how much does burning of crop residues contribute to delhi’s pollution peaks?...
More »Paddy stubble management: Zero biomass power plant in 3 years -Raakhi Jagga
-The Indian Express Apart from sitting over the subsidy applications for agriculture machines, the state has not been able to add even a single biomass power plant in the last three years. Ludhiana: Even while Punjab attempted to wash its hands of the air pollution that is plaguing delhi, the state has not been able to set its own house in order either. Apart from sitting over the subsidy applications for agriculture machines,...
More »Stubble burning: Growing mechanisation, increase in paddy area added to problem
-Hindustan Times Sukhwant Singh, a farmer in Haryana’s Kurukshetra, had most of his 12 acres of agricultural land under paddy. After harvesting his crop, he set the paddy stubble on fire, burning it to the ground within a few hours. Singh and most other paddy growers in Punjab and Haryana, who are facing financial constraints due to falling productivity and dwindling returns, do not care about the ban on stubble burning put...
More »Why delhi smog is a call to address India?s farm crisis -Roshan Kishore
-Livemint.com India’s farm crisis requires a well-crafted strategy, not knee-jerk reactions or quick-fix solutions As delhi chokes on smog, the spotlight has once again been put on the farmers of the neighbouring states of Punjab and Haryana and their practice of burning farm stubble during the post-harvest season. Faced with the prospect of employing scarce and costly labour to dispose the stubble, or purchasing an expensive machine to do the same job, or...
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