The state’s effectiveness to deal with such a situation is under scrutiny, given Haryana’s reputation as a “soft” government incapable of handling law and order with an iron fist.
Expectations among MLAs, who have won their seats multiple times, and Rahul Gandhi’s youth brigade, are running high and hectic lobbying has given way to impatience
Chitleen K Sethi
With officers drawn from three cadres running the union territory, administration and law enforcement of Chandigarh is often uncoordinated and haphazard.
Chitleen K. Sethi
For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.
Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
The govt. or admin. is not serious about problem and method proposed by them called insitu or burying the residue in field in impractical for the reason that residue of paddy and root-stem of paddy plant makes sowing of next crop that is wheat very difficult as it does not decompose in the soil. The residue takes more then 6 months to decompose whereas the intermediate period of harvesting and sowing is a month or so. So its a mere eyewash and people are suffocating. Real solutions are needed like small units to process it into paper or packaging material which will be biodegradable. Converting paddy straw to fuel wood or blocks . And also utilising it for electricity production in small thermal plants with necessary changes for particulate matter.
The govt. or admin. is not serious about problem and method proposed by them called insitu or burying the residue in field in impractical for the reason that residue of paddy and root-stem of paddy plant makes sowing of next crop that is wheat very difficult as it does not decompose in the soil. The residue takes more then 6 months to decompose whereas the intermediate period of harvesting and sowing is a month or so. So its a mere eyewash and people are suffocating. Real solutions are needed like small units to process it into paper or packaging material which will be biodegradable. Converting paddy straw to fuel wood or blocks . And also utilising it for electricity production in small thermal plants with necessary changes for particulate matter.
Good Swapna, done a good job. Useful one for our country from air pollution..
well written…swapna….all the best…go ahead…
Excellent story! Nayanika Chatterjee, good work with the camera! Hopefully, we in Delhi will be able to breathe better now.