Haryana: Nayab Singh Saini Govts Stubble Burning Order Spells Bother For Farmers

Haryana Information: Day after taking oath of workplace, the Haryana Chief Minister-led cupboard took a decisive resolution to deal with the difficulty of stubble burning within the state. The Haryana Division of Agriculture on Friday introduced that an FIR might be registered in opposition to farmers who will have interaction on this apply.

Moreover, a “pink entry” might be recorded of their farm information, which won’t permit them to promote their crops by way of the e-Kharid portal for the subsequent two seasons.

The order dated October 17, 2024, is available in response to the prevailing issues over the standard of air and environmental degradation attributable to crop residue burning.

“Farmers who burn stubble, an FIR must be registered in opposition to them, and a pink entry must be made of their farm information limiting them from promoting their crops in Mandis by way of the e-Kharid portal in the course of the subsequent two seasons,” the order acknowledged.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Courtroom pulled up the Punjab and Haryana governments over the non-prosecution of violators discovered responsible of stubble burning whereas summoning the state chief secretaries to seem earlier than it on October 23 for a proof.

A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka, Ahsanuddin Amanullah, and Augustine George Maish identified “full insensitivity” on the a part of each states, directing the Fee for Air High quality Administration (CAQM) to take penal motion in opposition to each authorities officers for the failure to take motion in opposition to the violators.

Stubble burning is a serious contributor to the rising air pollution ranges within the nationwide capital.

The apex court docket was upset over the Punjab and Haryana governments not taking any steps to implement the instructions issued by the CAQM within the nationwide capital area (NCR) in June 2021 to cease stubble burning.

“This isn’t a political matter. If the chief secretary is performing at any person’s behest, we’ll subject summons in opposition to them as effectively. Subsequent Wednesday (October 23), we’re going to bodily name for the chief secretary and clarify the whole lot. Nothing has been completed; the identical is with the Punjab authorities. The angle is of full defiance,” the bench remarked, as quoted by information company PTI.

Reacting to Haruana authorities’s resolution, Congress MP Randeep Singh Surjewala dubbed it “anti-farmer conspiracy” of the BJP. “On the very first day of the formation of the Haryana authorities, the BJP authorities issued an order to abolish the MSP of farmers. On one hand, an FIR might be registered in opposition to the farmer for burning stubble and however, the farmers’ crop won’t be bought at MSP for two years. It is a direct anti-farmer conspiracy of the BJP authorities led by Nayab Singh Saini as a result of farmers didn’t vote for the BJP in Haryana…Is that this not a direct conspiracy to abolish MSP by way of the backdoor? If farmers don’t burn stubble, what’s the different? Will Nayab Singh Saini inform what number of farmers of Haryana have been supplied a Completely satisfied seeder Machine? Even after giving a 50 per cent subsidy, the price of Completely satisfied seeder Machine to the farmer is as much as Rs 75 thousand, the place will the poor and small farmers get this cash from?”

“…Does Nayab Singh Saini know that each the farmers and the Punjab Agricultural College are saying that the Completely satisfied Seeder Machine reduces the productiveness of farming?…Has the federal government performed any analysis?…(Haryana authorities ought to reply these questions and instantly withdraw this Tughlaqi decree. In any other case be prepared for a nationwide motion,” he additional acknowledged.

(With PTI Inputs)