Supreme Court Strongly Criticise Over Pollution In Delhi-NCR, Sought Report In A Week

While hearing on pollution control in Delhi-NCR, the Supreme Court has said that the Air Quality Management Commission or the state governments formed to suggest and implement measures for pollution control did not make any effort to ensure compliance with the instructions.

A bench headed by Justice AS Oka directed the state governments to file a status report on the latest situation within a week. The next hearing of the case will be held on October 16. The Supreme Court said that an expert should be appointed in the Air Quality Management Commission. During the hearing today, the Air Quality Management Commission said that in the first 15 days of September, there were 129 incidents of stubble burning in Punjab and 81 in Haryana.