Fatehgarh Sahib to get rid of farm fires: DC

Our Correspondent

Fatehgarh Sahib, August 3
Presiding over meeting of district officials called over efforts to minimise stubble burning, Fatehgarh Shaib DC Parneet Shergill said it is the responsibility of every official to stop the increasing environmental pollution. All the officials should ensure zero stubble burning in the district, she said.
The DC said that to prevent the incidents of stubble burning in the district, nodal officers have been assigned villages to monitor and they will be held responsible if any case of stubble burning is reported. She said that paddy has been sown in an area of ??87,400 hectares in the district this year, from which 5.5 lakh tonnes of straw is likely to be produced. Farmer training camps will be organized at block level and village level to sensitize the farmers to proper management of straw. Apart from this, through the awareness vans of the Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Department and also through wall painting, awareness will be given about the negative effects of stubble burning.
She further said that the Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Department has selected farmers through a draw process to provide subsidy and agricultural machinery for stubble management to the farmers who are being provided with subsidy and agricultural machinery. She directed the officials of the Cooperative Societies Department to ensure that all the cooperative societies in the district have subsidized agricultural machines for stubble management, so that the farmers can plow the stubble in the field by taking the machines from the cooperative societies.