00:01A complete lack of enforcement when it came to Supreme Court rules on firecracker burning
00:08and worse still was Punjab, a state which had seen this year at least in the early part
00:16of this harvesting season a decline in stubble farm fires but over the last week they have
00:22been spiking and yesterday saw a crazy surge of farm fires particularly in Tarantaran district,
00:29more than 1200 farm fires in Punjab. Predictably there's a blame game on. The BJP rule Delhi says
00:38this is part of a giant conspiracy of the Amadmi party-led government in Punjab. The Amadmi
00:45party says the BJP should be looking after Delhi better but our ground report comes from Punjab
00:52from Kamaljeet Sandhu. Take a look.
01:00A double whammy for Delhi. The day the national capital celebrated Diwali with firecrackers
01:08also saw a jump in number of farm fires in Punjab. The state saw a single day jump of 1152
01:16farm
01:16fire incidents taking the cumulative count this year to 4459. There are other states like Haryana,
01:24Uttar Pradesh which surround Delhi and are closer in proximity blaming these other states for stubble
01:32burning saying Punjab is being unnecessarily being dragged. But when it comes to a number of cases
01:39there seems to be a 80 percent drop as far as these cases are concerned. The Punjab police however claim
01:46there is a sharp reduction in farm fires this year. The sudden spike in stubble burning has sparked a blame
02:08game.
02:08The
02:09Diwali
02:09Diwali
02:09Diwali
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02:41Stubble burning in Punjab is seasonal.
02:44Farmers claim that they set fire to prepare their fields for the next sowing season within
02:49the small timeframe they have.
02:51For those few weeks during autumn, farm fires become a major cause of air pollution in North
02:56Indian cities.
02:57While the number of farm fires have come down over the years, a lot more needs to be done
03:02to incentivize and compensate farmers to solve the problem altogether.
03:06With Kamal Jeet Kaur, Bureau Report, India Today.
