At 10 pm Monday, the 24-hour average had hit the ‘severe’ category, standing at a figure of 403, with firecrackers having contributed to the city’s pollution load.
Officials said that last year,13.22 lakh bio-decomposers were distributed to the farmers. However, this year the target is to distribute bio-decomposers to 17 lakh farmers. So far, 1.66 lakh bio-decomposers have been distributed for this season in this financial year.
The study by researchers at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Bhopal, has generated the first near-nationwide, district-level estimates for agricultural area burned and emissions from the fires
Senior advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan, who represents the main petitioner Arjun Gopal and others seeking a ban on the sale and manufacture of firecrackers, meanwhile, has decided to move a contempt petition in the top court against the law enforcement agencies for the flagrant violation of the court s recent order.