
Pollution season's coming
The Times Of India Podcast
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The Importance of a State-Led Initiative
Sida: We need to give farmers some sort of incentive to stop this practice, since attempts to penalize them haven't help. He says we need multiple locations where farmers can come and a drop off the stubble. Sida's argument is that there is already a certain level of air pollution thatis generated by normal human activity That combines with weather conditions of the winter months. This is worsened by things like stubble burning. It doubles the amount of air pollution in that particular time of the year.
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