The air pollution has increased in the country’s capital Delhi in the last few years tremendously. Most of the political parties are blaming Haryana and Punjab of air pollution stating that stubble burning emerges as a prominent factor for polluted air in Delhi.
It has come to light that while the Delhi government blames neighbouring states for the city’s air pollution, the National Capital is also to blame for a spike in pollution.
The information tabled in Rajya Sabha in a reaction to a question asked by Kartik Sharma , a Member of Parliament, revealed that there are several factors responsible for the polluted air in Delhi.
The Rajya Sabha cites construction and demolition work, dust, biomass burning, municipal solid waste burning, sanitary landfill, and stubble burning as causes of air pollution in Delhi. It is worth stating that stubble burning is just one of the reasons. Besides, vehicle emission constitutes the sizable chunk of the pollution.
Due to the precautionary steps taken by the Haryana government was able to bring down stubble burning on a large scale. In the last paddy season, there has been a reduction of more than 55 percent in cases of stubble burning in Haryana as compared to the last few years. The joint research conducted Punjab University and PGI Chandigarh and experts Dr Suman Mir and Prof Ravinder Khaisal.of the concerned from institutes respectively informed that although there has been a decrease in the cases of stubble burning in both the states and the cases of stubble burning are more in Punjab.
Punjab has also registered a somewhat satisfactory reduction in these cases. From the year 2012 to 2021, about 60000 cases of stubble burning were being reported in the state every year and in 2022, it was reduced to about 41000 which constitutes a decline of around 38 percent.
