Punjab Cabinet gives nod to 25 per cent hike in compensation for crop loss due to inclement weather : The Tribune India

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(*25*)Chandigarh, March 31

The Punjab Cabinet on Friday gave nod to 25 per cent hike in compensation for crop loss due to vagaries of weather.

A call to this impact was taken by the council of ministers in the Cabinet assembly chaired by chief minister Bhagwant Mann, mentioned an official assertion.

In a pro-farmer determination aimed toward safeguarding their pursuits, the Punjab Cabinet led by CM @BhagwantMann gave nod for mountain climbing compensation due to nature’s fury by 25% per acre & determined to improve the reduction quantity from Rs 12,000/- to Rs 15,000/- per acre for 76-100% crop loss.

— CMO Punjab (@CMOPb) March 31, 2023

Keeping in view the loss incurred by the farmers lately due to heavy rains, hailstorms and robust winds, the Cabinet has determined to improve the reduction quantity from Rs 12,000 per acre to Rs 15,000 per acre for 76 to 100 per cent for loss of crops.

This measure will give a therapeutic contact to the affected farmers who will probably be in a position to get an inexpensive monetary reduction from the federal government.

The reduction charge will probably be relevant from March 1, it mentioned.

Untimely rain accompanied by hail and high-velocity winds in the current previous have induced harm to wheat in a number of components of the state.

The Cabinet in one other determination gave its consent to lengthen the exemption of two.25 per cent stamp responsibility and charges on registration of properties until April 30. Earlier, the final date was March 31.

Those opting for registration of land will probably be exempted from 1 per cent extra stamp responsibility, 1 per cent price and 0.25 per cent particular price.

The council of ministers additionally gave approval for hiring 2,574 ‘Kisan Mitras’ and 108 discipline supervisors in the agriculture division.

These ‘Kisan Mitras’ and discipline supervisors will encourage the farmers to get out of the wheat-paddy circle and domesticate much less water guzzling crops like cotton and basmati rice.

This step will act as a catalyst to save valuable groundwater of the state by boosting crop diversification programme on one hand and offering employment to the youth of the state on the opposite, mentioned the assertion.

The Cabinet additionally gave its nod for enactment of the Punjab Canal and Drainage Act-2023 to regulate and handle canals and drainage in the state.

The foremost goal of this Act is to guarantee hindrance-free canal water to farmers and land homeowners for irrigation functions, upkeep, restore and well timed cleanliness of canals, drainage and pure water programs, it mentioned.

Apart from this, the Act will even present a good and clear mechanism for redressal of grievances of water customers and different regulatory restrictions towards pointless wastage of water, it added.

At current, the actions relating to irrigation, navigation and drainages in the state are regulated by the British period laws the Northern India Canal and Drainage Act-1873.

With the passage of time and re-organisation of the state, various provisions contained in the mentioned Act have grow to be outlived.

To curb the menace of kid and adolescent labour, the Cabinet gave its approval to body the Punjab Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Rules, 2023 with modification in The Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 by the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Act 2016.

The Cabinet additionally gave inexperienced sign for sending the circumstances of eight prisoners for looking for untimely launch of life convicts confined in the jails of the state.

After the nod of Cabinet beneath Article 163 of the Constitution of India, these particular remission/untimely launch circumstances will probably be submitted to the Punjab Governor beneath Article 161 of the structure.

The Cabinet additionally gave approval for sending the case of particular remission to convicts confined in jails of Punjab, in the second part to commemorate the seventy fifth Independence Day of India being celebrated as ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’.  

#Bhagwant Mann