45 days on, stubble burning cases finally drop below 50

Bathinda: After one-and-a half months of the start of wheat straw burning season, cases came down across Punjab on Sunday as only 49 were reported in the past 24 hours.
With 49 incidents, the count reached 14,166, 270 behind the highest wheat stubble burning cases in the last seven years at 14,436 recorded in 2017.

No district witnessed burning cases in double digits, with Jalandhar recording 9 cases as seven districts recorded 1 case each. As per the data sourced from Punjab Remote Sensing Centre, till now Ferozepur has recorded maximum cases at 1,416, followed by 1,228 at Amritsar, 1,107 at Gurdaspur, 1,093 at Moga, 1,059 at Tarn Taran, being the districts having recorded over 1,000 burning cases so far while SAS Nagar has been the least disturbed districts on the count of wheat straw burning by recording only 28 cases.