SC Slams Delhi’s air quality panel over pollution, says ‘you are silent spectators’

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday slammed the central air quality panel for now not taking actions on officers amid the surging in crop burning in north Indian states such specially Haryana and Punjab. Notably, crop burning is the foremost reason behind air pollution contained within the national capital. The foremost development comes as Delhi witnessed a prime decline contained within the air quality this week.

Slamming Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM), the pinnacle court stated that now not a single committee change into formed to tackle the stubble burning issue. “Every year we see stubble burning. There change into total non-compliance of the CAQM Act. Have committees been constituted? Please show us a single step taken. Which directions have you ever used under the Act? You are silent spectators. You are doing nothing,” the court said.

The air quality panel chairperson stated said contained within the court that three subcommittees were holding one meeting quarterly.

“We wonder how they're performing those tasks by meeting most effective once in three months,” the pinnacle court said.

The CAQM Act introduces a committee whose objective is to toughen synergies, facilitate research, identify, and address the air pollution problems in both Delhi-NCR and the areas around it. On the choice hand, a duo of judges wired the importance of encouraging local use of alternative tools to position an end to the stubble burning practice. Moreover, the court pointed out that there have been no existing actions or guidelines under the Act, and no measures have been undertaken regarding violations.The Supreme Court also said the CAQM had vast powers, including directing closure of polluting units. The top court asked the panel to place on record the details of its meetings held and decisions taken.

“Though the commission has taken certain steps, it ought to be more active, and it ought to make it imaginable for its efforts and directions correctly translate into cutting back the problem of pollution,” the Apex Court said.

With every iciness, Delhi gasps for breath caused by a every year air pollution disaster which spikes perilously all of the way through Diwali. Many of the primary contributors to this pollution crisis is the stubble burning in adjacent states of Haryana and Punjab.