Categorical Information Provider
CHANDIGARH: The farmers and the AAP Govt in Punjab are heading for a war of words as the federal government has known as upon the farmers to head for staggered paddy transplantation and undertake the Direct Seeding of Rice (DSR) solution to steer clear of worsening of the facility disaster.
The decision has no longer long gone smartly with the farming neighborhood because it had rejected the electrical energy provide time table for the approaching paddy sowing season issued through the state executive and had asserted that they might get started transplanting paddy from June 10.
The federal government has made up our minds to stagger paddy transplantation into 4 stages beginning June 18 through, for the primary time, dividing the state into 4 zones, to be able to scale back the usage of energy all over the height season.
A couple of days again the assembly between the farmers’ unions and Punjab Energy Minister Harbhajan Singh and Punjab State Energy Company Restricted Chairman-cum-Managing Director Baldev Singh Sra failed to damage the impasse at the factor.
The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) has introduced an indefinite ‘Delhi type’ agitation (The massive-scale agitation towards the 3 farm rules) towards the state executive in Chandigarh from Might 17.
A call on this regard was once taken at a gathering of twenty-three farmers’ unions held in Ludhiana a couple of days in the past.
Senior SKM chief and Common Secretary of BKU (Lakhowal) Harinder Singh Lakhowal mentioned they’d met the manager minister Bhagwant Mann on April 17 within the assembly the federal government confident them an advantage of Rs 500 in keeping with quintal on wheat, MSP on maize and basmati however until date, not anything has been executed. We’ve given one month’s time to the federal government to satisfy our calls for and however the executive failed to take action. Therefore, we will be able to get started an indefinite agitation in Chandigarh. A tractor-trailer march will likely be held to start agitation,
mentioned Lakhowal
Terming the federal government’s transfer as a one-sided choice, Bharti Kisan Union (Ekta Ugrahan) president Joginder Singh Ugrahan mentioned that the state executive had to name a gathering with the farmers prior to saying dates for paddy transplantation.
ALSO READ | Farmers protest close to place of dwelling of Punjab Energy Minister Harbhajan Singh over electrical energy scarcity
The state executive, for the primary time, has made up our minds to stagger the paddy transplantation into 4 stages ranging from June 18. In an effort in opposition to decreasing the usage of energy all over the height season, the state has been divided into 4 zones.
BKU (Ekta Ugrahan) normal secretary Sukhdev Singh Kokrikalan mentioned that it was once flawed guilty most effective the farmers for the falling underground water ranges. The federal government will have to remember the fact that prior to Inexperienced Revolution, paddy was once by no means the crop of the state. The federal government support of Rs 1,500 for direct seed plantation of paddy was once no longer sufficient. The federal government wishes to offer no less than Rs 10,000 in keeping with acre to hide farmers’ dangers.
“The federal government has nonetheless no longer given a ensure at the MSP of different plants, together with maize, moong dal and basmati rice,’’ he mentioned.