IIT Delhi has found that this year stubble burning has started earlier than previous years and that Punjab is a bigger culprit in this matter than Haryana.
Patriot met with Hemant Kaushal, who is the Project Coordinator for Centre of Excellence for Research on Clean Air, a department started just last year for countering the extreme levels of air pollution in Delhi. He pointed to two regions – Gurdaspur and Amritsar — and said that stubble burning had in fact increased this year.
