{"id":198037,"date":"2022-07-30T18:16:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T12:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=198037"},"modified":"2022-07-30T18:17:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T12:47:43","slug":"stubbles-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/stubbles-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"Stubbles, mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on an article <strong>\u201cStubbles, Mountains<\/strong>\u201d published in <strong>The Times of India<\/strong> on <strong>30<sup>th<\/sup> July 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus<\/strong>: GS 3 Ecology and Environment<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>: Air Pollution, Air Pollution in the National Capital Region (NCR)<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: Recently, the Punjab government has proposed to provide a cash incentive of Rs 2,500 per acre, to paddy farmers aimed to curb stubble burning.<\/p>\n<p>The Punjab and Delhi government has struck a consensus. Both are willing to contribute Rs 500 each.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What are the challenges facing the proposal?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>There are multiple source states\u00a0of <strong>air pollution <\/strong>in Delhi NCR, including Haryana and UP. However, except for Delhi and Punjab, the other 2 states have not agreed to the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>The farmers are <strong>disinterested<\/strong> in various straw <strong>management machines<\/strong>, and the <strong>bio-decomposer<\/strong> developed by ICAR-IARI.<\/p>\n<p>The Himalayan ecology is fast changing. It poses a threat to the <strong>Northern plains of India<\/strong>. <strong>For example<\/strong>, the Himalayan glaciers are melting, its pristine forests are facing forest fires, and the highway construction like Char Dham aggravates the environmental situation of the natural ecosystem.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What should be done?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The GOI with its resources, political capital, and statutory powers must intervene. The <strong>cash incentives<\/strong> along with bio-decomposers must be prioritized.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the government of Punjab, and Delhi, the <strong>Union government<\/strong> and <strong>Haryana government <\/strong>must also be roped in to financially contribute to make the cash incentive scheme successful.<\/p>\n<p>Further, if the farmers take <strong>cash incentives<\/strong> and continue to burn stubble, then they should be <strong>penalized<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on an article \u201cStubbles, Mountains\u201d published in The Times of India on 30th July 2022. Syllabus: GS 3 Ecology and Environment Relevance: Air Pollution, Air Pollution in the National Capital Region (NCR) News: Recently, the Punjab government has proposed to provide a cash incentive of Rs 2,500 per acre, to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/stubbles-mountains\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stubbles, mountains<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10496],"class_list":["post-198037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704932939},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}