Patiala,
\nThe Punjab Remote Sensing Centre recorded almost 43,800 stubble-burning incidents after the paddy harvesting season in the state last year, the highest till<\/p>\n
date.<\/p>\n
While the authorities had imposed around Rs 75 lakh fine on the offenders, a majority of them have not bothered to pay. With the political will missing, the<\/p>\n
deputy commissioners concerned, too, are yet to expedite steps to recover the penalty.<\/p>\n
The farm fires had taken a toll on the air quality of the state for over a month. Official documents suggest that Sangrur with 7,000 farm fires topped the list where<\/p>\n
the authorities imposed a fine of Rs 26 lakh. But the erring farmers backed by unions refused to deposit the fine. \u201cInvestigation in many cases is still pending as<\/p>\n
the farmer unions have threatened agitation if their members are harassed,\u201d said an official.<\/p>\n
In Patiala, of the total around 3,800 stubble-burning incidents, roughly 40 cases were registered and a fine of Rs 15 lakh was imposed.<\/p>\n
In January last year, the government had chosen Patiala as model district for implementing the ban on burning stubble. The district administration had warned to<\/p>\n
challan farmers in case of violation. However, no strict action was taken. In Bathinda, over 3,600 cases were recorded, but not a single farmer was fined.<\/p>\n
Kahan Singh Pannu, Chairman, PPCB, confirmed that the respective deputy commissioners had been told to act tough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Patiala, The Punjab Remote Sensing Centre recorded almost 43,800 stubble-burning incidents after the paddy harvesting season in the state last year, the highest till date. While the authorities had imposed around Rs 75 lakh fine on the offenders, a majority of them have not bothered to pay. With the political will missing, the deputy commissioners […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22377,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[314],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-punjab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22378,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22376\/revisions\/22378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}