This NASA Image Shows Stubble Burning Is Adding Poison To The Air Across North India
Air quality in Delhi NCR deteriorated even further on Friday with the pollution levels increasing overnight by around 50 points. The main reasons for the deteriorating air quality are the rise in stubble burning and burning of firecrackers during Diwali. Stubble-burning in the neighbouring states has been one of the major contributors to pollution in the national capital.
Air quality in Delhi NCR deteriorated even further on Friday with the pollution levels increasing overnight by around 50 points.
The main reasons for the deteriorating air quality are the rise in stubble burning and burning of firecrackers during Diwali have deteriorated air quality in Delhi.
Despite awareness efforts and a ban on stubble burning, farmers in states across North North India are resorting to the harmful practice in their farms.
US space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has released a map which shows just how concentrated the fires are North of the country.
Stubble-burning in the neighbouring states has been one of the major contributors to pollution in the national capital. On Thursday, stubble-burning in Punjab and Haryana contributed to 27 per cent pollution in Delhi, while on Wednesday the contribution was recorded at 35 per cent, the highest so far.
According to data from the NASA Fire map, there are still thousands of active farm fires across the Northern part.
According to reports in Haryana alone, the police have registered 17 FIRs in connection with stubble burning cases reported from various places in Fatehabad district.
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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has urged the governments of Punjab and Haryana to provide facilities to their farmers so that they don't have to burn stubble.
The share of stubble burning in Delhi's pollution has risen to 35 percent, the season's highest, and the hazardous haze shrouding the city on Wednesday can be "purely" attributed to it, the Ministry of Earth Sciences'' air quality monitor SAFAR said.
Many emergency measures like odd-even scheme, banning entry of trucks in Delhi NCR, construction activities and shutting down schools will be taken under consideration in this situation.
