Impact of Practice of Stubble Burning in Environment. A Socio Legal Study

Essay from the year 2018 in the subject Environmental Sciences, , language: English, abstract: Crop residue burning is a technique used by the farmers for the preparation of land for next cultivation. Through this technique the remaining of crops like straw which remains in the field as residue after harvesting is burned. It's an air pollution issue and concern for every one as this kind of practice by the farmers emits lots of handful gases in the air. Crop residue burning practice is common in almost every states of India. One can find such practice in Chhattisgarh too. Stubble burning is considered to be the cheapest methods for cleaning the field after harvesting. Though it's a cheap practice but its impact is hazardous in nature and the most important concern for all is to stop such practice and to prevent air pollution. The smoke which is released from crop residue burning is a mixture of particles and chemicals produced by incomplete burning of carbon-containing materials and this is one of the reasons for many air born diseases like Asthma. All smoke contains carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and particulate matter or soot which is very harmful. Even Section 19(5) of The Air (Prevention And Control Of Pollution) Act, 1981 states that 'If the State Government after consultation with the State Board, is of opinion that the burning of any material (not being fuel) in any air pollution control area or part thereof may cause or is likely to cause air pollution, it may, by notification in the Official Gazette, prohibit the burning of such material in such area or part thereof'. Now the question which comes here is that from various surveys and from images issued by NASA it's cleared that in many states of India, Crop residue burning is practiced by the farmers which shows that either the Government is Silent or is unable to stop such practiced. Through this paper researcher will discussed about the impact and solution of stubble burning. Keywords: Smoke, Stubble Burning, Air Pollutant, Hazardous, NASA

Completed my schooling from Govt. Higher Secondary School, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh. And BA.LLb (graduation) from Department of Law, Calcutta University in the year 2009. Done LLM from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala. MPhil from Jodhpur National University, Rajasthan. And now am perusing my PhD from Amity University, Noida. During my graduation I have done internship with two NGO dealing with legal Aid. For one and half year I have done practice under Calcutta High Court as Criminal Lawyer. After that I joined Quislex Legal Services Pvt. Ltd, Hyderabad as Junior Legal Associate and afterwards I have joined V.K MUNSHI Associates, Raipur, Chhattisgarh. Their, I worked for One year and dealt with criminal matters. I start my teaching carrer as well as research work from 2014 when I start working with Disha Law College as Assistant Professor. Till now I have published 18 research paper and total seminar and conference I have attended is 17 . Recently I have joined ISBM University, Raipur, Chattisgarh as an Assistant Professor for Law Department.