Amid concerns that stubble burning in neighbouring states is one of the main factors behind Delhi's air pollution, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh today said "farmers cannot be expected to give up crop residue burning completely", till the time they are provided viable solutions.
The statement comes on a day when Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal met his Haryana counterpart Manohar Lal Khattar to discuss air pollution and stubble burning.
Asserting that a long-term solution was needed to arrest the problem of crop residue burning, the Punjab chief minister said the state government was looking for affordable solutions for this problem.
Notably, farmers of Punjab and Haryana have been blamed for the rising air pollution level in northern states including Delhi triggered by their stubble burning.