The tribunal’s principal bench of Chairperson Justice Prakash Shrivastava, Judicial Member Sudhir Agarwal and expert member Dr A Senthil Vel was hearing a suo motu case on stubble burning and air pollution when it passed the April 3 order.
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In this paddy season, as many as 2,900 fire incidents took place in Bathinda till Wednesday and according to the action taken report (ATR) of Punjab government, actual farm fire incidents were 1778 only and the rest had reasons other than farm fire.
The Tribunal has noted that the counsel for the State of Punjab has submitted that further efforts will be made to bring down farm fires and has sought time to file another report.