New Delhi, 30 September (IANS) BJP on Tuesday played an alarm on a possible farm fire in the coming months and asked their harmful effects on Delhi’s air quality, AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal to “immediately” the issue.
BJP’s National Information and Technology Department in -charge Amit Malviya wrote on X, “Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann should immediately address the issue of farm fire to Delhi and the entire NCR starts knee again. Public health and clean air cannot wait. The responsibility lies with AAP.”
Malavia’s comment is at a time when former Delhi CM Kejriwal and his party’s government in the agricultural state claimed that Punjab’s field fire has very little role in deteriorating the air quality of Delhi in winter.
The BJP and AAP have been involved in a verbal duality on the toxic wind of Delhi for almost a decade and its link to the farm fire in Punjab, the BJP has accused Kejriwal of changing its stance on the link between the fire of the farm and the toxic wind of Delhi.
Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta recently slammed the previous AAP government, alleging a scam of crores of rupees in a plan to use bio-dicks to deal with farm waste in the city.
In 2018, when Kejriwal was the Chief Minister in Delhi, he slammed the stubble burning in Punjab for a spike in Delhi’s air pollution starting in October.
Five years later, when AAP came to power in Punjab, Kejriwal claimed that effective measures were taken by the state government to control the stubble burning, which reduced the possibility of farm fire in that state contributing to pollution in Delhi.
Last year, the Supreme Court pulled the Punjab and Haryana governments for half-incomplete attempts to seal the fire of the farm, calling them “only eye witnesses”.
The apex court also questioned the state governments that there is a shortage of prosecution of farmers violating the law on the lack of prosecution of farmers.
The apex court also wrapped the “toothless” environmental protection laws to the Central Government, given that the laws were to control pollution, especially the 2021’s Air Quality Management Commission (CAQM) Act, administrative machinery was passed to ensure implementation.
On its behalf, the BJP -led Delhi government has decided to conduct a study on ‘smog’ on the photochetical coatings that can be applied on roads, concrete and tiles to reduce NO2 and harmful hydrocarbons.
Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa recently instructed the Environment Department to work on an action plan to strengthen the city’s protective shield against air pollution through technology-operated interventions and scientific verification.
“Delhi will prefer security, stability and average impact to rapidly distribute cleaner Air, best evaluate and adopt priority photochetical technologies,” Sirsa said, Sirsa said, to test for artificial rain between MoU’s signature with IIT-Kanpur.
Sirsa said, “Delhi’s fight against pollution is personal-every senior, every worker-and we are putting simple, safe, science-based equipment on the ground, measuring the results openly, and wherever families can feel the difference in air, they are scaling quickly.”
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