Every year in winters, the situation in Delhi-NCR becomes worse due to pollution.
People have to face respiratory diseases. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court has asked the government about the preparations before this.
The country’s Supreme Court asked the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM), formed to control pollution in Delhi-NCR, to tell how it will deal with the unprecedented increase in pollution during winters.
That too in a situation when the pollution control boards of the states in NCR do not have adequate number of staff.
The apex court termed the pollution control boards of Delhi, Punjab, UP, Haryana and Rajasthan as ineffective due to massive shortage of staff and said that all the vacant posts should be filled by April, 2025.
A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Augustine George Masih said that winter is about to come. Pollution will increase due to stubble burning and other reasons.
Every year, burning of paddy stubble in neighbouring states is said to be the main reason for pollution in Delhi-NCR.
In such a situation, the question arises that when the Pollution Control Boards of the states related to NCR do not have adequate number of employees, then how will the problem be dealt with.
“Therefore, we order the chairman of CAQM to appear before us on the next hearing of the case on September 2 through video conferencing,” the apex court said.
They have to explain their plan. The bench wondered how the sub-committee on safety and enforcement, to be set up by the commission, would function when states in the NCR lack representation due to vacancies in the pollution control boards.
It will be difficult to implement the instructions
Amicus curiae advocate Aparajita Singh informed the bench about the vacancies in the pollution boards of the states. Singh said that we are about to enter September and soon the problems of stubble burning and pollution will come to the fore.
He said that in such a situation it would be difficult to implement the directions of the Commission due to shortage of staff in the boards.
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