SC pulls up Centre over stubble burning

The Supreme Court on Wednesday pulled up the Centre for making the environment protection law "toothless", and said the provision under the Commission for Air Quality Management in National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas (CAQM) Act of 2021, which deals with penalty for stubble burning, was not being implemented.

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A Bench of Justices Abhay S Oka, Ahsanuddin Amanullah and Augustine George Masih said the CAQM Act was enacted without creating required machinery for implementing the provision to curb air pollution.