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Mehak JainAIR 17

Question 6What, what measuresGS1GS1

What are the reasons for crop residue burning in India? What measures have been taken to address it?

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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

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Happy seeders

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4/10

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Page 14

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

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