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Delhi: Cash incentives to tackle farm fires?

NEW DELHI: Supporting Punjab government’s proposal to incentivise paddy farmers for not burning harvest stubble in the winter, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said Delhi government was “ready to do whatever it can” to reduce air pollution.

Kejriwal said the proposal made by Punjab government to the Commission for Air Quality Management, which oversees anti-pollution measures in Delhi-NCR, if accepted, will provide farmers cash incentives for not burning the remains of their paddy crop.

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