New Delhi: Punjab could see a drastic drop in stubble-burning cases this year due to the devastating floods in August that left a large swathe of agricultural land under water and flattened crops across the state.

A Punjab Pollution Control Board official said that with a sizable number of farmers facing crop losses and fields in parts of the state still under the silt and stagnant water, the scope for stubble-burning at the end of the rice harvest season has reduced.

“We will see a much better Diwali this time, not a smog-filled one like last year,” Sandeep Behl, a senior environmental engineer at the Punjab Pollution Control Board told ThePrint. “We expect stubble-burning cases to reduce drastically in Punjab this year. The floods have definitely had an impact, and even otherwise, the

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