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Centre promises law to check stubble burning
Why is it in News?
- Centre informed Supreme Court that it will bring law to address air pollution as well as check stubble burning in Delhi as well as the surrounding National Capital Region.
Details:
- After Centre’s assurance, SC suspended its earlier decision to have a one-man committee to monitor stubble burning.
- It was to be led by former Justice Madan Lokur.
- Reasons for Stubble Burning in north west rice-belt of India:
(1) Changing rainfall patterns: leave farmers with an extremely short window to clear land for the sowing of winter crops.
(2) Insufficient machinery: on ground to clear farms,
(3) Little demand for biomass power plants.
(4) No assurance: that early maturing seeds will ensure high yields.
(5) Fall in ground water levels: forced farmers to delay planting until well into the monsoon. delay pushed back the harvest.
(6) When farmers burn rice stubble, the tail of the monsoon has already passed. With no wind to disperse it, the smoke drifts idly south-east, converging in the skies over Delhi.
- According to forecasting system, SAFAR, the contribution of stubble burning to the worsening air quality was 16% relative to other sources such as road dust, vehicular emissions and industrial activities recently.
- SAFAR is maintained by the Ministry of Earth Sciences.