Delhi's Air Quality Crisis- LIVE UPDATES From Supreme Court Hearing

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17 Nov 2021 11:43 AM IST

  • Delhis Air Quality Crisis- LIVE UPDATES From Supreme Court Hearing

    On Delhi's Air Quality Crisis, Supreme Court will continue hearing today a petition seeking directions to tackle the pollution.A Division Bench comprising the Chief Justice of India NV Ramana, Justices DY Chandrachud and Surya Kant will continue hearing the matter today.On Monday, based on the affidavit submitted by the Central Government, the Court said that "we have come to a conclusion...

    On Delhi's Air Quality Crisis, Supreme Court will continue hearing today a petition seeking directions to tackle the pollution.

    A Division Bench comprising the Chief Justice of India NV Ramana, Justices DY Chandrachud and Surya Kant will continue hearing the matter today.
    On Monday, based on the affidavit submitted by the Central Government, the Court said that "we have come to a conclusion that major culprits of air pollution are construction, industry, transport, power and vehicular traffic apart from stubble burning in some parts".
    The bench also expressed dissatisfaction with the outcome of the meeting held by "The Commission for Air Quality Management in National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas" on Sunday pursuant to court's directions and noted that they were more like 'long term measures' instead of 'emergency steps' needed now. The court had then asked the Government of India to call for an emergency meeting on Tuesday and discuss the areas which it indicated to discuss the implementation process. The bench has also directed the Centre and the NCR states to introduce a "work from home" option for employees for some time.
    On last Saturday, SG Tushar Mehta had previously told the court that as per statistics, farmers stubble burning contributed to less than 10% of the air pollution in Delhi. As a reply, the court observed that there are other significant contributor's to Delhi's current crisis, and at one point, the bench even commented that it has become a fashion these days to "bash farmers" for Delhi's air pollution.
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    Live Updates

    • 17 Nov 2021 12:02 PM IST

      Counsel for State of Haryana appears.

      CJI: have you made efforts to talk ro farmers?

      Counsel: Yes District Magistrates have been asked to talk to not do this for 2 weeks. Court’s orders have been complied with, work from home directed

    • 17 Nov 2021 12:01 PM IST

      CJI: Your coordination committee has made suggestions, it’s equally applicable to all states and centre.

      SG: as to the number of sweeping machines, it was found 15 won't be enough, so we have asked them to augment. 

    • 17 Nov 2021 12:01 PM IST

      Bench: These are implementation and enforcement steps, some positive steps will also need to be taken. 

    • 17 Nov 2021 12:01 PM IST

      Bench: is it not possible to CNG busses? So people who have to travel for work can

      Singhvi submits it’ll have to be seen if it can be used as a short term measure or nor, the available number of buses etc has to be seen.

    • 17 Nov 2021 12:01 PM IST

      Bench: we’ve a suggestion, you’ve said it’s possible to close non-essential industries for short period if other NCR states do it. Is that possible to be done?

      Singhvi: It's been said as what’s the point if vehicles are coming from other states

    • 17 Nov 2021 12:00 PM IST

      Bench: why don’t you identify days when public offices are closed, private vehicles are less, vehicles for common people are allowed.

      Singhvi: It's 100% work from home.

    • 17 Nov 2021 12:00 PM IST

      J Kant: Both you are agreeing transport is an issue. These are long term measures what you’re saying. What are immediate measures? 

    • 17 Nov 2021 12:00 PM IST

      CJI: You say suggestions made in Mr Mehta’s affidavits are enough to control pollution?

      Singhvi: No. Stubble will have to be controlled.

    • 17 Nov 2021 11:59 AM IST

      Judges discuss amongst themselves

      CJI: we are not impressed or inclined to go into these figures. Enough is enough. We can’t go into this, how many machines required, etc

      Singhvi: it’s been done already. 

    • 17 Nov 2021 11:59 AM IST

      Singhvi: 15 have been ordered. We wrote TO MCD they said they need 15 more. We approved that .

      Bench: will 15 work, there’s 1000s of kms of road

      Singhvi: if they say they want more we’ll approve 

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