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Enforcing a ban will not end the menace of stubble burning, say researchers

(for straw management) or ing. The Environment Minis­ about ₹5,000 an acre, as abstain from burning, said ‘Farmers must be enforcing the State­led ban ters of these States as well as The Hindu has previously Dr. Friedrich. On average, educated on its on the practice — are unlike­ top officials at the Centre de­ reported. the input costs of farmers ly to solve the problem. clared a “zero tolerance” who burned straw were monetary costs’ Farmer cooperative policy on the burning of Mixed results about ₹40,000 per acre and JACOB KOSHY groups — a key link between stubble, which has been es­ However, the success of those who didn’t about NEW DELHI the government and farmers timated to contribute these efforts has been ₹25,000 per acre but the in­ — ought to be playing a more anywhere from 7% to 78% of mixed, even though stubble­ comes of those who burned Only educating farmers active role in educating the particulate matter­emis­ fires in 2018 were fewer than and those who didn’t were about the monetary costs of farmers, say key authors as­ sion load in Delhi during in 2017 and 2016, according closer — about ₹60,000 and burning stubble can address sociated with the study. winter. to satellite maps by indepen­ ₹50,000 respectively. the environmental crisis The Centre has spent dent researchers. “There needs to be grea­ triggered every year in Pun­ Cheap solution about ₹600 crore in subsi­ In their interviews, the re­ ter participation by village jab, says a team of Swiss and “The main message is that dising farm equipment via searchers found that farm­ cooperatives in being able to Indian researchers who in­ farmers are not to blame village cooperatives to ena­ ers who had bigger land­ impose social norms that terviewed 600 farmers over (for the pollution crisis),” Burning issue: A file photo of a worker burning paddy straw or leftover stubble on the ble farmers to access them holdings were more likely to would dissuade burners,”

two years. Burning stubble, says Max Friedrich, a post­ outskirts of Mohali in Punjab. * AKHILESH KUMAR and avoid stubble burning. burn straw; those who used said Banalata Sen, an inde­ the rice chaff left over after doctoral researcher at the In 2018, Punjab had dis­ combine harvesters (for cut­ pendent public health pro­ harvesting, is linked to win­ Swiss Federal Institute of On average, about 20 mil­ popularity of deploying quality in the capital in win­ bursed about 8,000 farm ting the straw) as opposed to fessional, associated with ter air­pollution in the State Aquatic Science and Tech­ lion tonnes of straw are gen­ stubble­burning as a quick ter. implements to individual manual labourers were the study, coordinated by as well as down­wind Delhi. nology (Eawag). “There are erated in Punjab, and they and cheap solution. In 2013, the National farmers and set up 4,795 more likely to engage in Ranas Mosler (affiliated to According to the team, deeper causes beyond eco­ barely have two to three For about a decade now, Green Tribunal issued a di­ custom hiring centres, from burning; and those who Eawag), the Centre for Sus­ the government’s efforts — nomic incentives or aware­ weeks to dispose them of the Delhi and the Centre rective to Punjab, Haryana where such machinery burnt or didn’t burn were tainable Agriculture (CSA), earmarking funds for spe­ ness about the health conse­ and prepare the fields for have held this practice res­ and Uttar Pradesh asking could be leased. The cost of equally aware of the steps Hyderabad and Kethi Virasat cialised farming equipment quences of burning at play.” the next crop. Hence the ponsible for the abysmal air them to ban stubble burn­ hiring these machines was and procedures required to Mission (KVM), Jaitu, India.

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Aditya Anand Petrol price cut by 7 Mumbai paise, diesel dips 8 paise NEW DELHI After pulling out of Abu Dha­ Petrol prices declined by 7 bi, Manchester and Hong paise across the metropolitan Kong over the past 48 hours, cities on Thursday after Jet Airways on Thursday remaining unchanged for the slashed its domestic sche­ last two days, data from the dule by cutting departures Indian Oil Corporation’s from Delhi to all metro ci­ website showed. In Delhi, ties, except Mumbai. petrol was priced at ₹72.71 A look at the schedules per litre, down from ₹72.78 from Delhi showed that, on on Wednesday. In Kolkata, Thursday, there were no Critical period: The Naresh Goyal­led Jet Airways is facing its Mumbai and Chennai, price of domestic departures to Ben­ worst financial crisis, with debt exceeding $1 billion. the fuel was at ₹74.79, galuru, Hyderabad, Chennai ₹78.33 and ₹75.52 per litre and Kolkata. The cash­ respectively. IANS strapped airline has also stopped accepting bookings Pilots write to PM Renowned artist Haku for the Mumbai­Hong Kong Asian News International aviation as fares will Shah passes away at 85 flight beyond March 22. The New Delhi increase due to a reduction NEW DELHI Delhi­Hong Kong service The pilots of financially­ in capacity, and travelling Renowned artist Haku Shah, was cancelled overnight. strapped Jet Airways have public will face major best known for his themes of The Naresh Goyal­led Jet urged Prime Minister inconvenience,” said the tribal and folk art, passed #70929 is facing its worst financial Narendra Modi and Civil National Aviators Guild, the away on Thursday following a Tough times: A boy drags his goats on the bed of Jaypur dam, in Aurangabad on Thursday. The drought situation in Maharashtra crisis, with debt exceeding Aviation Minister Suresh registered trade union of Jet cardiac arrest at his home in is likely to get severe as dams are left with less than 32.88% water stock of the total storage capacity. * YOGESH LONDHE $1 billion. The carrier, which Ahmedabad. He was 85. Shah Prabhu to instruct the Airways’ Indian pilots. DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD was also a cultural is struggling to stay aloft, has airline’s management to “The pilots and engineers anthropologist. He carried delayed payments to banks, release their pending are now almost three out extensive field research suppliers, and aircraft les­ salaries. months behind salaries and and documentation on rural sors — resulting in some of “We fear that the airline facing a lot of financial and tribal arts and crafts, Now, NEET score is valid for three years them moving to terminate is on the verge of collapse. hardships with no relief in traditions and folk lore, and lease deals and take back This will leave thousands of sight. Our repeated pleas to established a tribal museum their aircraft. people unemployed. It will the management have gone at Gujarat Vidyapith. PTI MCI clears the long-existing confusion about the validity of the entrance test change the dynamics of unheard,” read the letter. Domestic flights DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Maoists ‘apologise’ for Bindu Shajan declaration of result, entit­ uate Medical Course in a Fo­ after May 2018, shall have to On Thursday, Jet cancelled killing school teacher Perappadan ling a candidate to pursue reign Medical Institution mandatorily qualify the 73 of its 117 departures from the ATR 72­500 fleet,” an air­ tures it normally operates. NEW DELHI MUMBAI MBBS or equivalent medical (Amendment) Regulation, NEET for admission to MBBS Mumbai. Similarly, in Delhi line official said, speaking on In Kolkata, 8 out of 10 depar­ Days after a school teacher The National Eligibility­cum­ course including pre­medi­ 2019.” course, besides fulfilling the it operated only 31 of the 106 condition of anonymity. tures were cancelled, with was killed by Naxals in Entrance Test (NEET) score cal/language course, if any, Meanwhile, these latest eligibility criteria for admis­ published departures. From Bengaluru, Jet oper­ just one each to Guwahati Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli is valid for three years for In­ followed by MBBS or equiva­ amendments are to come in­ sion to the MBBS course pre­ Of the 31 flights from Del­ ated only 3 flights: one each and Mumbai taking off. district, the rebels have dian students wanting to lent medical course.” to force from the date of pu­ scribed in the Regulations hi, 20 were operated using to Mumbai, Delhi and Am­ Flights to airports like issued a letter calling it a pursue undergraduate med­ blication in the official Ga­ on Graduate Medical Educa­ Boeing 737­800 aircraft. Of sterdam. “We have can­ Mangalore, Kozhikode, Thi­ mistake, the police said on ical courses abroad. Foreign degree zette (March 14). tion, 1997.” these, 7 were to Mumbai, 3 celled 26 flights out of Ben­ ruvananthapuram, Bhuj, Thursday. Yogendra Meshram was killed because he was Clearing the long­existing About 7,000 students from Last year, the Medical The Medical Council got to Amritsar, 2 to Kathman­ galuru,” the official said. Coimbatore were not being suspected to be a policeman confusion about the validity India opt for foreign medical Council of India, in its March 18,383 applications in 2017­ du, 2 to Dehradun and one At Chennai, 16 departures operated, data showed. but he was “innocent”, the of the NEET score, a notifica­ degrees annually. notification, said: “Indian 18 against 10,555 applica­ each to Pune, Dhaka, Kochi, were cancelled. Of the four Jet’s services to Amster­ letter said. Meshram, teacher tion by the Medical Council The notification further Citizens/Overseas Citizen of tions in the previous year. Srinagar, Singapore and flights that operated, 3 were dam, Paris and London have at a municipal school at of India — Board of Gover­ said that these regulations India intending to obtain The Council issued 14,118 Bangkok. to Mumbai and one to Paris. not been hit. All flights are Korchi, was shot dead by nors stated: “Result of NEET may be called the “Eligibility primary medical qualifica­ eligibility certificates in “Flights to Bhopal, Udai­ From Hyderabad, two flights available for booking Naxals at Kombda Bajar on shall be valid for a period of Requirement for Taking Ad­ tion from any medical insti­ 2017­18, compared to 8,737 pur, Chandigarh, Jaipur, were operated to Mumbai, through the entire schedule March 12. PTI three years from the date of mission in an Undergrad­ tution outside India, on or in 2016­2017. etc., were operated using compared with the 6 depar­ and are operating normally. Nirav spends Holi in overcrowded U.K. jail Where Holi is ‘sung,’ not merely played BJP MLA shot at in Uttar Pradesh Festival infused nationalism in Assamese folk music He may have to share cell with another male prisoner, with little time out Press Trust of India RAHUL KARMAKAR Lakhimpur Press Trust of India GUWAHATI A BJP legislator in Uttar Pra­ LONDON Mamata lauds journalist Holi is ‘played’ in most desh was shot at in Lakhimpur Fugitive diamond merchant parts of India. But the festiv­ Kheri district on Thursday, the Nirav Modi, wanted in India Indo-Asian News Service London Telegraph journalist al is ‘sung’ in a part of As­ police said. Lakhimpur MLA on charges of fraud and mo­ Kolkata who exposed Nirav Modi. It sam, where it goes by Yogesh Verma suffered a bullet ney laundering, spent Holi West Bengal Chief Minister is a got­up match. No credit another name: Doul Utsav. injury on the leg when an un­ behind bars in one of En­ Mamata Banerjee on goes to the BJP The wellspring of the fes­ identified person shot at him gland’s most overcrowded Wednesday refused to give government,” she told tival at Barpeta in western around 3 p.m. Mr. Verma was jails on Thursday, a day after any credit to the Narendra reporters at the State Assam is Barpeta Satra, a rushed to a hospital, where his a U.K. judge rejected his bail Modi­led government for secretariat. The arrest was a Vaishnav monastery that condition was stated to be out application. the arrest of fugitive “strike” by the BJP ahead of Madhabdev established in of danger, the police said. The 48­year­old was ar­ diamantaire Nirav Modi in the Lok Sabha election. 1583. Madhabdev was the rested by Scotland Yard on London. There would be a number of prime disciple of Srimanta Tuesday and presented be­ “This is a ploy of the BJP. such “strikes” during the Sankardeva, the saint­re­ Rhythmic beats: Women dancing as they celebrate Holi in fore district judge Marie Mal­ The credit must go to the election, she said. former who inspired the Guwahati on Thursday. * PTI lon at Westminster Magis­ Nirav Modi DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Bhakti movement in Assam trates’ Court in London on around the time Guru Na­ songs they sung in the cele­ choudhury, writer Prasan­ Wednesday. ditions at the prison. During cell alone — even if a prison­ ter, told the court in support nak, Kabir and Chaitanya bration of colours were in­ na Lal Choudhury and mus­ The judge remanded him the most recent inspection er’s life was in danger — and of Modi’s bail application. Mahaprabhu did elsewhere fluenced by Bengal’s folk ician Purushottam Das in custody till March 29, after carried out in February­ that the response to cell call However, Modi’s defence in India. music. “Traders those days played a major role in the which he was transferred to March 2018, the Victorian­ bells was totally inadeq­ team’s efforts to establish his Madhabdev wrote a few used to sail on the Brahma­ linguistic changeover. Her Majesty’s Prison (HMP) era jail was found by U.K. uate,” he noted. credibility as a lawful U.K. re­ Doul songs such as Faku putra to Dhaka and other “Their songs attained great Wandsworth in south­west Chief Inspector of Prisons Prison cells designed for sident who had no intention khele karunamoy (The Bengal ports. They intro­ popularity, giving Barpeta London. Peter Clarke to be “one of one prisoner are often occu­ of jumping bail and fleeing Lord full of compassion duced Holi songs borrowed two categories of Holi songs the most overcrowded in En­ pied by two, with poorly­ were strongly objected to by plays Holi) and Dolai Gobin- heavily from Bengali. More — folk and monastic — that Harsh conditions gland and Wales” and filled screened lavatories and in­ the Crown Prosecution Ser­ da paramanande (Krishna than a century ago, a group people sing while playing The overcrowding pressures with many men with drug or mates being allowed far too vice (CPS), arguing on behalf plays Holi blissfully) for ri­ of nationalist poets, writers with colours,” he said. of the jail may mean he will mental health problems. little time out of their cells, of the Indian authorities. tualistic celebration of the and musicians began writ­ The folk songs have no share a prison cell with any his inspection had The judge in the end ruled festival. ing Assamese Holi songs. As place in the Barpeta Satra of its around 1,430 male Self­inflicted deaths concluded. in favour of the Indian auth­ their music became popu­ where the monastic songs prisoners. “Despite six self­inflicted “He has done everything orities, concluding that the Borrowed from Bengali lar, the Bengali­influenced accompany rituals that Modi, one of India’s rich­ deaths since the last inspec­ he possibly can to be visible, diamantaire had “substan­ But the traders of Barpeta, a songs disappeared,” Priya make Doul last three or five est men, accustomed to tion, it was concerning to to demonstrate his keenness tial grounds” to fail to sur­ major commercial centre Ranjan Das, a cultural acti­ days, depending on the Hin­ high­life and celebrity circles find that not all staff were to fully cooperate [with U.K. render, and remanded him for centuries, had by then vist in Barpeta, told The du month — Chaitra or Faa­ around the world, will be carrying anti­ligature knives, authorities], George Hep­ until the next hearing, sche­ made the common man’s Hindu. gun — and planetary faced with some harsh con­ that no staff would enter a burne Scott, Modi’s Barris­ duled for March 29. 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