DC Connects with farmers to know the reason for stubble burning

To sensitise the farmers about the optimum utilisation of stubble management machinery to prevent burning incidents in advance, the District Administration led by Deputy Commissioner Mrs Aashika Jain established rapport with farmers to apprise them of the huge subsidy schemes available on the machinery.

Meeting the farmers at Banur and Manauli Surat, the Deputy Commissioner said that the Bhagwant Singh Mann government is concerned about the burning incidents that result in damage to the environment as well as flora and fauna.

She said that the National Green Tribunal and Apex Court of India have directed the states to curb the stubble burning incidents, so we should go for an environment-friendly solution with the help of Crop Residue Management Machinery available at a highly subsidised price.

Interacting with the farmers at Banur, she assured them of making the requisite machinery available as per the demand and asked them to apply in the coming days when the portal will be opened on behalf of Panchayats and Co-operative Societies.

She said that the district has been enhancing its stubble fuel-based boiler capacity in the industry, which will increase the existing capacity to 4 lakh Metric Tonnes per annum so they can supply the stubble to these industries.

As the balers are more beneficial for ex-situ disposal of stubble we should opt for the maximum number of bailers to cope with the stubble burning issue.

Similarly, the Additional Deputy Commissioner (Rural Development) Mrs Sonam Chaudhary visited the Basma village and appreciated the role of the farmers in dragging the number of fire incidents. Here, the number of burning incidents has shown a decline from seven to single case only.

Deputy Commissioner Mrs Aashika Jain said that we are analysing the villages with the highest count of burning and minimalistic or zero to devise the strategy accordingly.