 "A paddy field in Punjab's Attari. To clear their fields swiftly, many farmers burn the leftover paddy stubble (Photo: Sarthak Choudhury)")
Ten times. That’s by how much stubble-burning incidents have already increased in Punjab till September 30 over the same period last year. And the state has barely entered the paddy harvesting season.
Their potato and pea crop ready, farmers in Punjab have started the banned slash-and-burn practice. Once paddy is harvested, stubble burning is bound to increase several times over.
The air quality in neighbouring land-locked New Delhi, which constantly grapples with deadly pollution from vehicles and round-the-year construction, is now in the “poor” category. This is after the national capital enjoyed the cleanest air in six
