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New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal today directed Delhi and four northern states to formulate a comprehensive policy for providing incentives and infrastructural assistance to farmers to stop them from burning crop residue to prevent air pollution. It had said the Punjab government had also failed to tie up with any company, private or public, which could utilise the crop residue. The schemes must contain the incentives that you are offering so that we can take further action,” the bench observed. The NGT said the state governments are under obligation to identify the sites in each district for removal, collection and storage of crop residue for further utilisation but there has been no “concrete” development in the matter. The tribunal rapped the Delhi and Rajasthan governments after they told the bench that they were examining the issue and sought time for filing the action plan..