The Supreme Court additionally mentioned the availability underneath the CAQM Act, which offers with penalty for stubble burning, was not being applied
The Supreme Court on Wednesday pulled up the Centre for making the environment safety legislation “toothless”, and mentioned the availability underneath the CAQM Act which offers with penalty for stubble burning was not being applied.
A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka, Ahsanuddin Amanulllah and Augustine George Masih mentioned the Commission for Air Quality Management in National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas Act of 2021 (CAQM Act) was enacted with out creating required equipment for implementing the availability to curb air air pollution.
Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati, showing for the Centre, mentioned part 15 of the CAQM Act, which offers with penalty for stubble burning, can be applied successfully as rules for it is going to be issued in 10 days.
She submitted that an adjudicating officer can be appointed and all essential actions can be taken to implement the legislation successfully.
Bhati identified that the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) has issued notices to senior administrative officers of Punjab and Haryana moreover officers of the state air pollution management boards and sought their response as to why motion shouldn’t be taken towards them.
The bench requested the CAQM who’s taking your notices significantly as the process is just not offered underneath the legislation.
“Please tell your chairperson of CAQM not to bail out these officials. We know what is happening on the ground,” the bench mentioned.
Bhati identified that over 1,000 circumstances of stubble burning have taken place in a number of districts of Punjab like Amritsar, Ferozepur, Patiala, Sangrur, Taran Taran.
On October 16, the highest courtroom had pulled up the Punjab and Haryana governments over the non-prosecution of violators discovered responsible of stubble burning whereas summoning the state chief secretaries to look earlier than it on October 23 for an evidence.
The prime courtroom has been upset over Punjab and Haryana governments not taking any steps to implement the instructions issued by the CAQM within the nationwide capital area (NCR) to cease stubble burning.
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