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Punjab farmers' bodies connected Tuesday (September 30, 2025) slammed the enactment against paddy growers for stubble burning and demanded a currency inducement for harvest residue management.
Despite a prohibition connected harvest residue burning, galore farmers proceed to indulge successful the signifier to wide the fields for sowing the adjacent wheat crop.
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 sowing the Rabi harvest — wheat — is precise abbreviated aft paddy harvest, immoderate farmers acceptable their fields connected occurrence to rapidly wide disconnected the harvest residue.
Punjab has seen 95 occurrence incidents from September 15 to September 29. Crop residue burning was physically verified astatine 51 sites, according to the information of the Punjab Pollution Control Board.
Maximum stubble burning cases person been witnessed successful Amritsar astatine 55, followed by 11 successful Tarn Taran, 10 successful Patiala, 4 successful Malerkotla and 3 each successful Barnala and Kapurthala.
A good of ₹2.30 lakh arsenic biology compensation has been imposed successful 48 cases, according to the PPCB data. Of the full fine, ₹1.80 lakh has been recovered.
The information besides showed that a full of 51 FIRs, including 22 successful Amritsar and 11 successful Tarn Taran, person been registered successful the workplace occurrence incidents.
The cases person been registered nether Section 223 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), which pertains to disobedience of an bid duly promulgated by a nationalist servant.
The State authorities besides marked 32 reddish entries, the maximum successful Amritsar, successful the onshore records of erring farmers. The reddish entries barroom farmers from getting loans against their farmland oregon selling the same.
The process of signaling workplace occurrence incidents started connected September 15 and volition proceed till November 30.
Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee person Sarwan Singh Pandher slammed the State authorities for its crackdown against farmers.
He alleged that farmers were being deliberately targeted portion nary enactment is being taken against the industry, "which contributes the maximum to the biology pollution".
He powerfully condemned the enactment of registration of FIRs against farmers, reddish entries and imposition of fine.
Mr. Pandher said galore tiny farmers could not spend to bargain harvest residue absorption machinery.
He said the KMSC volition pain the effigies of the State authorities and the Centre connected October 6 implicit the contented of enactment against farmers for stubble burning and to request capable compensation for flood-hit farmers.
Bharti Kisan Union (Ugrahan) wide caput Sukhdev Singh Kokirkalan said the authorities should springiness ₹2,500 per acre to farmers for the absorption of stubble.
Mr. Kokrikalan said farmers bash not privation to acceptable the stubble connected occurrence but they bash it retired of compulsion.
He said it is the farmers who endure the interaction of contamination first.
Samyukta Kisan Morcha person Raminder Singh Patiala besides said the authorities should springiness ₹200 per quintal to farmers for stubble management.
"The authorities should supply CRM machinery to farmers. It is not feasible for tiny farmers to bargain these machines," helium said.
"We powerfully reason registration of cases against farmers," said Mr. Patiala.
The SKM person warned of protests against the crackdown connected farmers. The State recorded 10,909 workplace fires successful 2024 arsenic compared to 36,663 successful 2023, a 70% decrease.
The State had recorded 49,922 occurrence events successful 2022; 71,304 successful 2021; 76,590 successful 2020; 55,210 successful 2019 and 50,590 successful 2018, with galore districts, including Sangrur, Mansa, Bathinda and Amritsar, witnessing a ample fig of stubble burning incidents.
