Action against 1586 farmers across the state to curb rising air pollution due to the stubble burning..

Chandigarh, Nov 14 – Haryana State Pollution Control Board is continuously taking stern action to curb rising air pollution due to the stubble burning. In this direction, the Board has so far taken action against 1586 farmers across the state. Out of which, police case has been registered against 244 farmers and a fine of Rs 18.65 lakh has been recovered from 695 farmers.
In a statement issued here today, Haryana Environment Minster, Mr Vipul Goel said that Delhi Chief Minister Mr Arvind Kejriwal is doing politics on the issue of smog. In view of National Green Tribunal orders, the State BJP government is quite serious to deal with this issue. Action is being taken on the farmers indulge in stubble burning. At the same time, they are also being awared and sensitized not to burn the stubble, but Delhi’s AAP government has not taken any such steps till date.
Mr Goel said that even in Delhi, crop residues are being burnt by farmers, but Delhi Government has not taken any action. Apart from giving subsidies to the farmers, he said that the government had spent crores of rupees even after making them aware. But Delhi government has completely failed in this issue. While sharing data, he said that action was taken against 1493 farmers till November 12, 2017 and 93 farmers were screwed up on November 13 alone.
He said that on the issue stubble burning, action was taken on 369 farmers in Fatehabad and fine of Rs 55,000 was recovered from 21 farmers. Similarly, action has been taken against 79 people in Hisar, 54 in Jind, 138 in Kaithal, 357 in Karnal, 184 in Kurukshetra, six in Panchkula, 40 in Panipat and 301 in Sirsa. So far, fine of Rs18.65 lakh had been recovered from farmers, he added.
The Minister has appealed to the farmers not to burn crop residue. For this, the government is providing them equipment on subsidy basis. The fertility of land is also shrinks because of the burning of crop residues as this would cause loss to farmers in coming days. He urged them to cooperate in government’s campaign to curb air pollution.