Status and policy analysis of stubble burning in North-Western India

Abstract

The study highlights the status of crop residue burning in north-western India along with the assessment of government policies in combating it, the role of private sector and numerous startups in utilizing the straw as a resource. The study used Landsat-8 images of three months from October to December 2018 and 2019 to show the burn severity maps of Haryana and Punjab region. Here, Normalized Burn Ratio (NBR) index was applied to determine the burned area in an image and obtain the burn severity map. Delta NBR (dNBR) was used to validate the result. Our result shows that burn severity in Punjab is higher than that of 2018 while in Haryana it shows less burn severity in 2019 as compare to 2018.