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"Time Of Need...": AAP MP Seeks Relief For Punjab Farmers From Centre
AAP MP Raghav Chadha Saturday sought from the Union Finance Minister a special package for Punjab farmers ensuring them adequate compensation for their crop damaged by an inclement weather.
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"Farmers Not At Fault": Delhi Environment Minister On Crop Burning In Punjab
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai today said free spraying of bio-decomposer will be ensured in Punjab to curb crop residue burning if his party forms government in the state.
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Chief Secretaries Of Delhi, 3 States Summoned Over Stubble Burning
The National Green Tribunal Monday said there was a need to find out a long-lasting solution to the problems of stubble burning and directed the chief secretaries of four states to appear before it to explain ways to prevent it.
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Teachers In Punjab Unhappy With New Stubble-Burning Awareness Duties
Government teachers Punjab's Gurdaspur district have demanded withdrawal of an order which has directed them to participate in creating awareness against stubble-burning.
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Farmers Can't Give Up Stubble Burning Completely: Amarinder Singh
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh today said "farmers cannot be expected to give up crop residue burning completely", till the time they are provided viable solutions.
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Produce 21 Farmers You Helped To Stop Stubble Burning: Green Court To Punjab
The Green Court today directed the Punjab government to produce before it 21 farmers which it claimed to have helped by giving incentives and infrastructural facilities to prevent them from burning crop residue in a bid to check air pollution.
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Acres Of Field Continue To Burn In Mukhtsar: Ground Report On Punjab's Crop Fires
As the last of the paddy harvests continue to burn across Punjab, despite assurances by the state government that firm steps, including fines, are being levied to discourage farmers from indulging in a practice that results in a thick pollution blanket in much of north India, NDTV travelled to Mukhtsar, a district in south Punjab for a reality che...
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Punjab's Burning Fields, Delhi's Deadly Smog And The Politics
60 per cent of the unprecedented pollution that has wrapped Delhi in toxic smog for days, says experts, is because of smoke from Punjab, where farmers are continuing to burn crop to clear their fields. With state elections now months away, the Akali Dal government has been accused of not trying hard enough to get them to stop.
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Punjab Farmers to Begin Rail Blockade Today, Trains Affected
Hundreds of farmers in Punjab have threatened to block rail traffic at many places across the state today and tomorrow, in protest against the state government's "anti-farmer" policies.
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60-Year-Old Farmer in Punjab, Who Briefed Rahul Gandhi on Crop Loss, Commits Suicide
Surjit Singh, a 60-year-old farmer, today allegedly committed suicide in Fatehgarh Sahib district in Punjab. Mr Singh had briefed Rahul Gandhi on the distress caused to farmers by crop loss due to unseasonal rains, when the Congress leader visited Punjab last month.
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With a 70 percent rain deficit, Punjab farmers are a worried lot
It's still not a happy time for farmers in Punjab. A delayed monsoon has increased their worries and any more of a delay could hit the production of rice paddy crop and also increase the input cost of cultivating Kharif crop. Punjab is facing a rain deficit of more than 70 per cent. Delayed monsoons have hindered the plans of many farmers who have...
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"Time Of Need...": AAP MP Seeks Relief For Punjab Farmers From Centre
AAP MP Raghav Chadha Saturday sought from the Union Finance Minister a special package for Punjab farmers ensuring them adequate compensation for their crop damaged by an inclement weather.
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"Farmers Not At Fault": Delhi Environment Minister On Crop Burning In Punjab
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai today said free spraying of bio-decomposer will be ensured in Punjab to curb crop residue burning if his party forms government in the state.
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Chief Secretaries Of Delhi, 3 States Summoned Over Stubble Burning
The National Green Tribunal Monday said there was a need to find out a long-lasting solution to the problems of stubble burning and directed the chief secretaries of four states to appear before it to explain ways to prevent it.
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Teachers In Punjab Unhappy With New Stubble-Burning Awareness Duties
Government teachers Punjab's Gurdaspur district have demanded withdrawal of an order which has directed them to participate in creating awareness against stubble-burning.
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Farmers Can't Give Up Stubble Burning Completely: Amarinder Singh
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh today said "farmers cannot be expected to give up crop residue burning completely", till the time they are provided viable solutions.
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Produce 21 Farmers You Helped To Stop Stubble Burning: Green Court To Punjab
The Green Court today directed the Punjab government to produce before it 21 farmers which it claimed to have helped by giving incentives and infrastructural facilities to prevent them from burning crop residue in a bid to check air pollution.
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Acres Of Field Continue To Burn In Mukhtsar: Ground Report On Punjab's Crop Fires
As the last of the paddy harvests continue to burn across Punjab, despite assurances by the state government that firm steps, including fines, are being levied to discourage farmers from indulging in a practice that results in a thick pollution blanket in much of north India, NDTV travelled to Mukhtsar, a district in south Punjab for a reality che...
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Punjab's Burning Fields, Delhi's Deadly Smog And The Politics
60 per cent of the unprecedented pollution that has wrapped Delhi in toxic smog for days, says experts, is because of smoke from Punjab, where farmers are continuing to burn crop to clear their fields. With state elections now months away, the Akali Dal government has been accused of not trying hard enough to get them to stop.
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Punjab Farmers to Begin Rail Blockade Today, Trains Affected
Hundreds of farmers in Punjab have threatened to block rail traffic at many places across the state today and tomorrow, in protest against the state government's "anti-farmer" policies.
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60-Year-Old Farmer in Punjab, Who Briefed Rahul Gandhi on Crop Loss, Commits Suicide
Surjit Singh, a 60-year-old farmer, today allegedly committed suicide in Fatehgarh Sahib district in Punjab. Mr Singh had briefed Rahul Gandhi on the distress caused to farmers by crop loss due to unseasonal rains, when the Congress leader visited Punjab last month.
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With a 70 percent rain deficit, Punjab farmers are a worried lot
It's still not a happy time for farmers in Punjab. A delayed monsoon has increased their worries and any more of a delay could hit the production of rice paddy crop and also increase the input cost of cultivating Kharif crop. Punjab is facing a rain deficit of more than 70 per cent. Delayed monsoons have hindered the plans of many farmers who have...
