BATHINDA: The crop residue burning got full steam on the Diwali day in Punjab with 1019 cases, the highest so far in the ongoing paddy harvesting season and recording over 1k in cases in a day, taking the count to 5617. Earlier highest count in a day was on Saturday when 902 stubble burning cases were recorded.
2,896 cases have been reported in the last four days which is over 51 percent of the total cases reported so far in the ongoing season. However, only solace is the stubble burning cases are still lower than the previous two years so far even though reason behind it is being put out the rains in late September have delayed the harvesting operations.
