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Failure of the government to reduce air pollution amounts to 'genocide, the Delhi high court
observed on Thursday.
"Punjab stubble burning is killing us," a bench of Justices B DAhmed and Ashutosh Kumar said,
adding that Delhiites are being robbed of three years of their life due to alarming pollution levels.
"It is literally capital punishment as the capital is being punished and that too for no offence.
People are being killed in the capital," an anguished bench remarked, equating reduction of
life span due to government inaction as 'genocide and murder.'
2. "As per a report, lite expectancy would be 3.2 yenrs less than what it ought to be. Assuming
that population of Delhi is 20 million, it would mean that approximately 60 million life years
are being robbed from the people of Delhi," the bench said, slamming both central and Delhi
governments for being concerned with ballot box' instead of human beings.
3. It pointed out that despite repeated directions and public opinion, the governments responsible
have not acted in the manner they should have on the menace of deteriorating air quality.
The bench also saw satellite images submitted by Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC)
showing stubble burning in northern India, to underline that level of pollutants in the air peaked
in first week of November due to biomass burning in Punjab,
4. "Unfortunately, the state of Punjab is in denial mode and contests allegations that they are
responsible for air pollution in Delhi. Punjab has not taken action as have the states of Haryana
and Rajasthan, despite our clear warning earlier," the bench noted. It warned Punjab's top civil
servant, the chief secretary that he will face contempt unless he explains why our directions
were not carried out and what prevented him from doing so."
It gave the state time till November 18 to reply.
5. As regards landfill sites, the court expressed concern over the "fires simmering there aggravating
air pollution and observed that the sole solution is to segregate garbage and use it for generation
of power.
6. The directions came on a PIL the court initiated suo moto to monitor cleaning up of Delhi air.
On the last date of hearing HC had asked the states of UP, Punjab, Rajasthan, Haryana to stop
stubble burning to ward of the problem of haze. It referred to Delhi government's proposal to
convert the closed-down thermal power plant at Rajghat into a waste to energy plant and said the
project, which is estimated to take 18 months from start to finish, should be started at the earliest,
On reports submitted by Haryana and Rajosthan, the bench said these states are moving in
right direction as there is no significant contribution (from stubble burning) from these states
to Delhi."
(Source: The Times of India)
On the basis of your reading of the above passage, nuswer any eight of the following questions:
(8 x 1 + S)
1. What does the failure of the government to reduce air pollution amount to?
2. What does the Court observe regarding the stubble burning in Punjabi
3. How does the alarming pollution levels alleet the life of the people in the city?
4. Why did the level of pollutants peak in the list weok of November?
5. Why did the Court wam Punjab's top civil servant?
6. What did the Delhi High Court observe regarding the landfill sites'?
7. What did the Court observe regarding the thermal power plant at Rajghar?
8. Why did the Court observe that the states ofllaryann and Rajasthan are moving in the right
direction?
6. Find a word in paragraph s that means the same as increasing".​

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:You were introduced to wastes and pollutants in Study Session 1, where we discussed the interactions between humans and our environment. Pollution was defined as the introduction into the environment of substances liable to cause harm to humans and other