Deputy Commissioner Aashika Jain Bats for the pro-active role of Cooperative Societies to prevent stubble burning

S.A.S Nagar : Continuing her efforts to prevent stubble burning in the Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar district, the Deputy Commissioner Aashika Jain visited the Kurli Multipurpose Cooperative Society of Derabassi Sub Division and exhorted the secretaries and members to play pro-active role in curbing fire incidents by making available stubble management machinery (Crop Residues Management Machines) to the farmers, the societies have with them.
The deputy commissioner who is on the move to avail maximum stubble management machinery in the district for the last many days before the onset of paddy harvesting season, said that the Societies have plenty of funds and stubble management machinery and we should go for optimum use of the Machinery with us by keeping it functional all the time.
Apprising them of the state government’s subsidy increased on procuring balers and rakes to Rs 12 lakh, she said that portal is open till August 15 and we should take maximum benefit of it by applying more numbers of balers. She said that the administration this time is insisting on increasing the number of balers as we have five bio fuel based units in the district where the bales of straw can be consumed easily.
The capacity of the units is two times more than the production of straw, she added. The deputy commissioner said that the identification of 85 villages in Red and Yellow zone is also the part of our initiatives to minimise the burning incidents and to make district pollution free due to stubble burning.
Aashika Jain said that we have about 952 subsidised units of Stubble Management Machinery but this time we want to increase our kitty with 20 more balers/rakes machines. She said the Punjab Government has increased the financial limit of a Custom Hiring Centre from Rs 5 lakh to 15 lakh where a subsidy of 80 percent is available.
In this way, one (group or society) can easily procure a baler/rake machine on a subsidy of Rs 12 lakh. She was accompanied by SDM Derabassi Himanshu Gupta and DR Cooperative Societies Gurbir Singh Dhillon.