Chandigarh, Oct. 23 -- The Haryana government on Thursday said that 52 first information reports (FIRs) have been registered and 21 people arrested for stubble-burning violations during the ongoing paddy harvesting season.

The chairperson of the commission for air quality management (CAQM), Rajesh Verma, reviewed the enforcement measures being implemented by the state government to improve air quality. Haryana chief secretary Anurag Rastogi was also present in the meeting.

Haryana's director (agriculture) Amit Khatri said that Haryana has distributed 13,200 crop-residue management machines against a target of 9,000.

He said that apart from lodging 52 FIRs and arresting 21 people for crop-residue burning related offences, the environmen...