Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh governments to assemble a gathering on November 28 to work out an unmistakable instrument. They were summoned by the bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar.
It coordinated that this gathering would be attended by the secretary of Ministry of Agriculture, Additional Secretary of Ministry of Energy and Energy, foremost secretaries in Ministry of Agriculture of the separate states, senior researcher from Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd, Managing Director of National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd and CMD of NTPC and legitimate specialized staff.
It requested that the states consider whether the use of horticulture deposit as a fuel can be a viable option for generation of power. The minutes of the gathering ought to be submitted to the NGT before December 6.
This is the season when the farmers of Punjab and northern parts of Haryana turn to huge farming of rice stubble to rapidly prepare their fields for the following harvest which is wheat.
The Punjab Remote Sensing Centre captured Satellite data, found that there were 40,510 fire incidents in Punjab alone, between September 27 and November 9, roughly coinciding with the kharif harvest season.
Local people bring up that in regions in the foothills of Himachal, the rice stubble is additionally utilized as animal bolster though in most different parts of Punjab, animals incline toward the encourage food out of the wheat deposit.
The National Green Tribunal has settled the environmental destruction fone to be at Rs 2,500 for each occurrence for landowners with under two sections of land, and Rs 15,000 for those owning more than 5 sections of land, among others.