Question 6What, what measuresGS1GS1
What are the reasons for crop residue burning in India? What measures have been taken to address it?
Main Body
1Ban on stubble, burning & declaring it an offence under IPC.
2Promotion of technologies like Happy seeders & providing capital subsidy for it
3Delhi government introduced ICAR's Rusa decomposer.
4Praction of CAOM
There is a need for stricter enforcement of existing efforts and promotion of inter state cooperation to tackle the problem.
Effectiveness
> continues to be defied by farmers & lack of action due to political reasons.
The technology is still too expensive as compared to burning.
effective & clean solution but not yet penetrated amongst farmers.
> effectiveness yet to be seen.
98 words5 paragraphs4 bullet points
- Lists measures and evaluates effectiveness
Answer DNA
Reusable pieces worth remembering
example
Happy seeders
Examiner score
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Topper
Mehak Jain
AIR 17
Subject & Paper
GS1GS1
Topic
Geophysical Phenomena & Environmental Changes
Environmental pollution
Crop residue burning
Writing Stats
98
Total words
5
Paragraphs
4
Bullets
descriptive
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