On 15 December 1988, PM Rajiv Gandhi spoke in the Lok Sabha while introducing comprehensive electoral reforms, including lowering the voting age from 21 to 18, and introducing measures to protect secular values in elections.
ACM Katre was 2nd IAF chief to die in harness. It was at a memorial lecture in his honour where IAF chief AP Singh revealed that India shot down 6 Pakistani aircraft in Op Sindoor.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
Two things are evident: 1) the stubbles burn because they are DRY; a wet or damp stalk won’t catch fire, 2) they are “undesirable” in their native locations because they produce smoke, and smoke produces pollution.
But, but but … there ARE many applications in far away locations where fuel-to-burn is a “desirable” commodity. Like in brick kilns, and many more. Can we “shift” these unwanted stalks to those locations?
Because they are dry, can we install a few giant crushers to convert these stalks to thick wood-powder, fill them in sacks, load them on wagons, and transport them all over the country where “free fuel” is WELCOME? That will be a free and ADDITIONAL SOURCE OF ENERGY, beside the customary fuels like coal, gas, and petrol.
This is my humble suggestion to solve the stubble-burning problem!
Two things are evident: 1) the stubbles burn because they are DRY; a wet or damp stalk won’t catch fire, 2) they are “undesirable” in their native locations because they produce smoke, and smoke produces pollution.
But, but but … there ARE many applications in far away locations where fuel-to-burn is a “desirable” commodity. Like in brick kilns, and many more. Can we “shift” these unwanted stalks to those locations?
Because they are dry, can we install a few giant crushers to convert these stalks to thick wood-powder, fill them in sacks, load them on wagons, and transport them all over the country where “free fuel” is WELCOME? That will be a free and ADDITIONAL SOURCE OF ENERGY, beside the customary fuels like coal, gas, and petrol.
This is my humble suggestion to solve the stubble-burning problem!
Did you read, ‘collection is the biggest problem, and farmers have only a 3 week window to clear the paddy and seed the next crop’?
It will be good to bring, as far as possible, all such good officers into limelight. Negative news 24×7 all around make the whole countrymen hopeless.
Wow,I am in awe, what an officer, my salutes to this young man, God bless him..