NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court docket on Friday pulled up the fee for air high quality administration (CAQM) for Delhi NCR over the difficulty of stubble burning and stated that the panel just isn’t taking steps to curb air pollution and handle air high quality which has introduced the area “on the verge of a major problem”.
A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and AG Masih stated that the air high quality panel didn’t type any committee for monitoring the air high quality.
“What number of instructions have been handed beneath part 12? What motion has the committee for safeguarding and enforcement taken? Has any course helped in curing the issue? The identical factor occurs yearly. The difficulty of significant air pollution. Is it coming down?” the apex court docket requested.
In the course of the listening to, CAQM chairman Rajesh Verma knowledgeable the highest court docket that the panel meets as soon as each three months.
‘Efforts wanted to make sure stubble burning different tools are used at grassroots degree,” the bench stated.
“Because the authority has been constituted three years in the past you stand not that each one the orders have been complied with. Except you are taking motion beneath part 14 for non-compliance the instructions will stay on paper,” the bench adopted up.
The highest court docket additionally directed the CAQM to file a greater compliance report and put up the matter for a listening to on Thursday, October 3.
Earlier, the apex court docket requested the panel to elucidate the steps being taken to curb air air pollution resulting from crop residue burning.
Senior advocate Aprajita Singh, who’s helping the court docket as amicus curiae, referred to some newspaper reviews and stated it seems that stubble burning has began in neighbouring states of Delhi.
She urged the court docket to hunt an evidence from the CAQM on what steps are being taken to curb air air pollution attributable to stubble burning and what steps are being taken to repair accountability on officers accountable for checking the burning of paddy straw beneath the CAQM Act.
