Legislation or No legislation !

In matter of  the stubble burning creating a “ life and death “ situation for citizens of Delhi, the Supreme Court seems to be telling the Chief Secretaries of Punjab – Haryana – Rajasthan – UP :

“  Just because there is no law to hold you accountable for playing with the lives of millions of citizens , does not mean , you can wash your hands off your responsibility .

We, the Supreme Court , are not here , merely to “ interpret “ the existing laws. In the interest of the citizens, we have also the responsibility to compel the legislative wing to “ enact “ appropriate laws

In the present case, we are compelled to ask the Central Government , to enact within a month :

Service Liability Act ( Govt Employees ) 2019 

And do not think that we will not act just because Parliament has yet to pass such an act.

Here are your orders :

Ø  Immediate measures to stamp out stubble burning,

Ø  All farmers be given a Rs 100 per quintal incentive to prevent them from setting their fields on fire

Ø  Action plan within three weeks to deal with the problem from the Centre and the states in and around the National Capital Region.

Ø  Provide farmers free machines to get rid of the agriculture residue.

Ø  Everyone knew this was going to happen again this year (in winter). State governments have no role to play in a democracy?

     If you cannot fulfil people’s expectations, you can go,”

[ Sources :

Ø  Give Rs 100/quintal to farmers to curb stubble burning, SC tells state govts 

Ø  Smog: SC flays ‘govt inaction’; summons 4 chief secretaries

Ø  PM Modi Asks Agriculture Ministry To Give Machines To Farmers To Stop Stubble Burning 

   Extract :

#   Prime Minister Narendra Modi today directed the Union Agriculture Ministry to give

     priority to farmers of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Haryana in distributing equipment to

     prevent stubble burning

     

#  There are agro-machines available in the market which remove stubble and

    governments of Haryana and Punjab are offering subsidy to farmers to buy the

    equipment

    

#  On the issue of stubble burning, the Prime Minister directed Agriculture Ministry to give

    priority to the farmers of the states of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Haryana in

    distribution of equipment to prevent such occurrences

    

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Thank you, Shri Modiji ,

For taking cognizance of my following email of yesterday, to the PMO appointed panel to find a permanent solution to this problem of stubble burning :

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Shri Rajiv Kumarji  [ VC – NITI Aayog ]

Shri K Vijayraghavanji  [ Principal Scientific Advisor ]

Shri Tarun Khannaji  [  Harvard Business School  ]

Shri Rajeev Chandrasekharji  [ MP ]

Major General Madhuri Kanitkarji

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Dear Friends,

I write with reference to the following news report which appeared in today’s Energy World :

PMO sets up panel to address burning issues 

In this context , I request you to spare a few minutes to go through the suggestions contained in my following emails [ sent to Cabinet Ministers / NITI Aayog etc ] :

#Smog in Brain ?                                                                [ 10 Nov 2017 ]

Amrinder Singhji has no excuse !                                          [ 20 Nov 2017 ]

Thank You , Captain Amrinder Singhji                                    [ 19 Oct 2018 ]

Making Water from Air ?                                                        [ 26 Oct 2018 ]

A Grass-Root Revolution                                                        [ 11  Mar  2019 ]

For most of the world’s problems, solutions are pretty well known

What remains unknown, is an individual ( not a committee ) who takes upon himself ( much like our PM , Shri Modiji ) to not rest till the solution gets implemented and the problem gets solved

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07  Nov  2019

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