Straw burning: DC, SSP visit hotspot villages in Tarn Taran

Deputy Commissioner Gulpreet Singh Aulakh and SSP Gaurav Toora along with other officials concerned visited hotspot villages where incidents of burning paddy straw were high and talked to farmers to cooperate with the administration to check cases of burning of paddy straw to save the environment.

The Deputy Commissioner visited Naushehra Panuan, Dhotian, Veion poin and others villages and told farmers that after the harvesting of paddy this year with ex situ system the paddy straw will be managed with balers and the administration has made all arrangements for it.

The DC said the administration has made sufficient arrangements for in-situ too by giving machinery to farmers on subsidy and farmers must use this system.

The Deputy Commissioner said the administration must honour the farmers who avoid paddy straw burning with appreciation letters. Harpal Singh Pannu, Chief Agriculture Officer (CAO), said the farmers who have been sanctioned machines for paddy residue management must come to collect the machines as early as possible.

The Deputy Commissioner, the SSP and other officials listened to farmers’ grievances and redressed these on the spot.