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Incentives aid reduction in stubble-burning cases in Hry

The Agriculture Department of the state has deputed around 4,913 nodal officers at village/block/sub-division and district level for prevention and control of paddy crop residue burning.

News Arena Network - Chandigarh - UPDATED: October 29, 2024, 10:19 PM - 2 min read

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Incentives aid reduction in stubble-burning cases in Hry

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The Haryana government is offering multiple incentive-based schemes to farmers to stop their engagement in farm fires which contributes to the air pollution in Delhi-NCR. 

 

The chief secretary of TVSN Prasad said in an affidavit filed to the Supreme Court that the state government was giving Rs 1000 per acre to farmers for managing their paddy stubble through ex-situ or in-situ management. And Rs 7,000 per acre for crop diversification that is switching over to some crop other than water-guzzling paddy and Rs 4,000 per acre for direct sowing of paddy. 

 

“Another incentive of Rs 1 lakh and Rs 50,000 is being given to the panchayats which perform and switch from red zone (having more than five farm fires in the previous year) and yellow zone (having two to five farm fires in the previous year) to green zone (having zero to one farm fire), respectively,” the affidavit read.

 

“During 2024, an additional 9,844 subsidized Crop Residue Management (CRM) machinery have been allotted to farmers and since 2018, a total of 1,00,882 subsidized CRM machinery have been allotted to the farmers/CHCs till date,” it said.

 

Haryana Senior Additional Advocate General Lokesh Sinhal further confirmed that providing incentives to farmers for crop diversification and use of machinery has proven to work on the ground as instances of stubble burning have been considerably reduced in the last three years. 

 

According to the Haryana Space Application Centre’s reports, Prasad said active fire locations (AFLs) in the state have come down from 6,987 in 2021 to 2303 in 2023 – a reduction of 67 per cent since 2021.

 

In the current paddy season till October 20, a total of 563 AFLs were reported but on physical inspection by field officers only 419 AFLs were actually found this year, the affidavit stated.

 

“Against these violations, environmental compensation as prescribed has been collected from 327 violators and 93 FlRs have also been lodged against the violators, and out of those 13 violators have been arrested.  Since 2021, Rs 1.97 crore has been collected as penalty. Additionally, red entries have been made in the agriculture record against 379 violators,” the affidavit read. 

 

“Further, directions have been issued to all Deputy Commissioners and Deputy Directors of Agriculture for lodging FIRs against the defaulting farmers in all the cases. Further, the direction has been issued to all Deputy Commissioners, Superintendents of Police, District Agriculture Officers and Regional Officers of the Haryana State Pollution Control Board to file prosecution before the competent Court of Law, in all the cases wherein FIRs have been lodged against the violating farmers,” the Haryana government submitted.

 

The Agriculture Department of the state has deputed around 4,913 nodal officers at village/block/sub-division and district level for prevention and control of paddy crop residue burning.


The Haryana government has suspended 26 officers sheets have been issued to 11 officials and show-cause notices have been given to 383 officers for their misconduct in the current paddy harvesting season.

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