Farmers can create e-gate passes at home to sell their crops in grain markets: Minister

Haryana Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Shyam Singh Rana said the farmers had been given the facility to create e-gate passes from home using the e-Kharid application to sell their crops in grain markets.

He said, the farmers could sell their entire crop in the market by generating a e-gate pass as per their convenience. Releasing the Haryana Jan Vishwas-Jan Vikas booklet as chief guest at the district secretariat, Jagadhri, on Friday to mark the completion of one year of the state government’s tenure, Minister Shyam Singh Rana said a notification for the purchase of every grain of all 24 crops at MSP was issued on December 19, 2024.

On the occasion, he provided allotment letters of 100-100 yard plots to the eligible people under the Chief Minister Rural Housing Scheme-2.0.

He said from the kharif season 2024, the payment of farmers’ crops was disbursed through DBT within 48 hours of the issuance of the exit gate pass. He said that a law was implemented to give five years’ punishment to those who manufactured and sold fake fertilisers, seeds and pesticides. He further said that providing climate-resilient crop varieties for seasonal crops was a continuous process.

“Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, is working on this subject. In the last four years, the university has approved 44 varieties of various crops,” said Rana.

He said the state government had fulfilled 46 of the 217 promises made in the manifesto in the last Assembly elections in just one year.

“The work is in progress on 158 promises and the government will complete a total of 90 promises in this financial year itself,” said Rana.

He said with the formation of the new Cabinet, 24,000 youths were given Group-C government jobs on October 17, 2024. He added that the candidates for various Group-A and B posts had been selected by the Haryana Public Service Commission.

He added that service/job security was provided to contract employees, guest faculty, college extension lecturers and guest professors during the first Assembly session held in November 2024.

On the occasion, DC Parth Gupta, Additional Deputy Commissioner Naveen Ahuja, BJP District President Rajesh Sapra, Zila Parishad Chairman Ramesh Chand Thaska, Mayor Suman Bahamani, former Cabinet Minister Kanwarpal Gujjar, former MLA Balwant Singh, former Mayor Madan Chauhan, DPRO Dr Manoj Kumar and other persons were present.