The team of Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) in Delhi, led by chairperson Rajesh Verma is on a visit to Punjab to assess paddy residue management initiatives taking place across the state and measures that are needed to be taken to enhance the use of paddy residue as fuel in the energy sector.

CAQM chairperson Verma said, “After the Green Revolution, now a stubble revolution is taking place in Punjab.”

He visited the Rajpura thermal power plant to review the process of mixing of biomass pellets with coal, and to assess stubble management efforts in Patiala district on Thursday.

CAQM member secretary Tarun Kumar Pithode accompanied him during the visit.

The team is also scheduled to visit a German company-owned bio-energy plant in Sangrur and later during the day, team membe

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