New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Saturday fell many in the center and Delhi the government for the issue of pollution in the national capital and said that blaming farmers for poor air quality had been “becoming mode”.
The APEX court heard the request submitted by Environmental Activists Aditya Dubey and Banka Safe Law Students, who are looking for instructions for providing stump removal machines to small farmers and marginal for free.
Also read the Lockdown two days if necessary ‘: SC to the Center on the Delhi Pollution of the Supreme Court of India on Saturday takes a serious view of severe pollution that swallows NCR and Delhi and said if necessary declare a two-day lock to carry pollution caused by vehicles, Your crackers, industries and dust say two lakh machines are available, but poor farmers cannot afford these machines.
After agrarian law, land ownership, Punjab and Haryana are less than 3 hectares.
We cannot expect the farmer to buy a machine That, “Kant’s justice told the Tushar Mehta public lawyer.
“Why the state and state government provides machines.
Take stumps for use in paper mills and various other purposes.
In winter stumps can be used for animal feed for goats, etc.
in Rajasthan,” he said.
Mehta, appeared for the center, told the court on that these machines were available for farmers with 80 percent subsidized tariff.
The top court judge asked Mehta, appearing for the center, whether officials helped him show actual prices after subsidies.
“Can the farmer buy it.
I am a farmer and I know that, CJI also from a farmer’s family who also knows his brother and brother (judge) also knows it,” Kant Judge, who sits as part of special.
The bench was led by the Chairman of India Judge NV Ramana and also had justice Dy Chandrachud, said.
Justice Kant asked whether other steps to curb pollution such as fire extinguisher prohibitions and vehicle emissions control were carried out.
“Be the Applicant, Delhi Government or someone else – it has become a fashion to blame farmers.
Have you ever seen how crackers were burned in Delhi for the past seven days? What did Delhi police do?” He asked.
Observations came after senior advocate Rahul Mehra, appearing for the Delhi government, mentioning the problem of burning stumps.
The top court is also called an increase in air pollution in the “emergency” situation of Delhi-NCR.
It asked the center and the Delhi government to immediately take steps to improve air quality and suggest steps such as stopping the vehicle and clamping locking in the national capital.
Observations came as air quality in the national capital continued to remain above the sign of “severe”, which led to a surge in hospitalization.
(With input from PTI)