Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said that the state is fully geared up to handle the issue of agricultural crop residue burning and air pollution issues ahead of the winter season.

At present, around 47 percent of the area of Haryana comes under the NCR region. Therefore, it is requested that all such provisions should be implemented within the radius of 10 km of NCT and Delhi or within the 10 km radius of cities having 10 lakh Population or these provisions should be implemented as per district specified, not as NCR,” he said.

As many as 34,372 machines (besides 19,353 rotavators which are removed from the list of crop residue management (CRM) implements by the Government of India are available in Haryana with individual farmers in 4,224 Custom Hiring Centers, the Chief Minister said.