NOIDA: In a hearing on an ongoing case in the National Green Tribunal (NGT) according to prevention and abolition of crop burning, a primary bench of the Tribunal headed by means of Justice Swatanter Kumar has requested all states to take strict motion for compliance with a December 2015 order the place the court docket had imposed a ban on crop burning throughout India+ .
The December 2015 order issued by means of NGT used to be according to the appeal of Greater Noida primarily based environmentalist, Vikrant Tongad versus Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) the place it had imposed a ban on burning of crop residues throughout India and particularly in states of Haryana, UP, Punjab and Rajasthan.
With strict rules imposed at the present on crop burning, farmers are susceptible to pay fines depending upon the realm which they are going to have set on hearth. Burning of crop residues and stalks after harvest is a traditional means of cleaning a box practiced by means of farmers. The fumes emerging from this burning is regarded as extremely toxic and carcinogenic. The court docket has requested 21 farmers from Punjab to be found in a hearing on October 13.
"The court docket took a difficult stance nowadays in opposition to the ones states which can be failing to agree to the order of ban. However on the similar time, the court docket has additionally directed the states to safeguard the interests of the farmers as they must not endure losses on account of the compliance. The entire initiative is to make the farmers acutely aware of the environmental harm created by means of crop burning+ ," Tongad said.
Farmers in Greater Noida have meanwhile started an consciousness campaign among the community to spread environmental literacy amongst farmers to forestall burning leftovers after harvest and get started making manure with the same.
The December 2015 order issued by means of NGT used to be according to the appeal of Greater Noida primarily based environmentalist, Vikrant Tongad versus Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) the place it had imposed a ban on burning of crop residues throughout India and particularly in states of Haryana, UP, Punjab and Rajasthan.
With strict rules imposed at the present on crop burning, farmers are susceptible to pay fines depending upon the realm which they are going to have set on hearth. Burning of crop residues and stalks after harvest is a traditional means of cleaning a box practiced by means of farmers. The fumes emerging from this burning is regarded as extremely toxic and carcinogenic. The court docket has requested 21 farmers from Punjab to be found in a hearing on October 13.
"The court docket took a difficult stance nowadays in opposition to the ones states which can be failing to agree to the order of ban. However on the similar time, the court docket has additionally directed the states to safeguard the interests of the farmers as they must not endure losses on account of the compliance. The entire initiative is to make the farmers acutely aware of the environmental harm created by means of crop burning+ ," Tongad said.
Farmers in Greater Noida have meanwhile started an consciousness campaign among the community to spread environmental literacy amongst farmers to forestall burning leftovers after harvest and get started making manure with the same.
NGT asks states to be vigilant about crop burning
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