Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Vikrant Kumar Tongad Vs. Environment Pollution (Prevention Control) Authority & Others dated 01/09/2017 regarding crop residue burning. The states of Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana assured the Tribunal that within three weeks they would bring at least 10 cases of preferably marginal farmers to provide due incentive, help and means to them, so that they do not follow traditional methodology of crop residue burning in the field itself.