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Farmers' assemblage Kisan Mazdoor Morcha connected Monday (October 6, 2025) held protests astatine galore places successful Punjab to request contiguous compensation for flood-hit farmers.
They besides lashed retired astatine the State Government for taking enactment against farmers for stubble burning, and burnt effigies of the Union Government and the Punjab Government arsenic portion of their protest.
Kisan Mazdoor Morcha person Sarwan Singh Pandher said that farmers are demanding compensation for the extended losses suffered during the caller floods successful the State. He demanded that the authorities wage astatine slightest ₹70,000 per acre to farmers for the harm of paddy harvest during the deluge.
"10% of it should beryllium fixed to workplace labourers," Mr. Pandher, who led the protestation successful Amritsar, said. He besides sought 100% compensation for the nonaccomplishment of livestock and poultry farms.
Protesting farmers further demanded that afloat compensation beryllium fixed to those whose houses were damaged owed to the floods. He demanded that the State Government should supply seeds and fertilizers for sowing of the wheat crop. “More clip should beryllium fixed to farmers for removing soil and silt deposited successful cultivation fields successful flood-affected areas,” helium said.
Punjab faced 1 of its worst floods successful decades, chiefly owed to the swollen Sutlej, Beas, and Ravi rivers, on with seasonal rivulets resulting from dense rainfall successful their catchment areas successful Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir. Furthermore, dense rains successful Punjab exacerbated the flooding situation.
Mr. Pandher besides lashed retired astatine the State Government for its enactment against farmers for stubble burning. He said, “FIRs are being registered, reddish entries are being made successful onshore records, and fines are being imposed connected farmers for workplace fires. All these should beryllium stopped.”
The husbandman person said that the State Government should springiness ₹200 a quintal oregon ₹6,000 per acre to farmers for the absorption of harvest residue. Mr. Pandher said if the authorities did not halt its crackdown against farmers for stubble burning, they would intensify their agitation.
Stubble burning successful Punjab and Haryana is often blamed for the emergence successful aerial contamination successful Delhi aft harvesting of the paddy harvest successful October and November. As the model for the Rabi harvest — wheat — is precise abbreviated aft paddy harvest, immoderate farmers acceptable their fields connected occurrence to rapidly wide disconnected the harvest residue for sowing the adjacent crop.
On the telephone of Kisan Mazdoor Morcha, different husbandman bodies, including Bharti Kisan Union (Ekta Azad), BKU (Krantikari), BKU (Doaba) and Kisan Mazdoor Hitkari Sabha, besides participated successful the protest.
