Financial bonus, soil-health cards, grievance redressal: how Haryana is setting a benchmark for other states

According to a April-2024 study of Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation nether Ministry of Jal Shakti, GoI, Jharkhand and Maharashtra person astir 3.16 crore and 6.87 crore agrarian population, respectively.

A elder BJP person said, “Whatever the Haryana authorities had been doing oregon is doing oregon volition beryllium doing for the payment of farmers of Haryana volition decidedly beryllium an illustration for different states, too. Of course, it volition person an interaction connected the upcoming polls successful poll-bound states, too. The BJP is the lone enactment that had been moving relentlessly for the payment of farmers. By implementing each specified decisions successful the involvement of farmers is besides a wide illustration of the party’s committedness of fulfilling each and each committedness that we marque to the farmers.” On the 555th Parkash Parv of Guru Nanak Devi, Haryana CM Nayab Singh Saini released an magnitude of Rs 300 crore done DBT to 2.62 lakh farmers. He besides announced that the “bonus magnitude of Rs 580 crore to the remaining 4.94 lakh farmers shall besides beryllium released soon.”

“Keeping the interests of the farmers paramount, Haryana authorities has decided to springiness a bonus of Rs 2000 per acre connected cultivation and horticultural crops being produced successful the authorities owed to adverse upwind conditions during Kharif-2024. On August 16, 2024, I had transferred a bonus of Rs 496 crore arsenic the archetypal installment, straight into the accounts of 5.80 lakh farmers done DBT. This bonus is being fixed to each those farmers who person registered themselves connected the Meri Fasal Mera Byora portal,” Saini said. He launched different inaugural enabling farmers to cognize the wellness of their ungraded and however overmuch fertilizer their onshore requires. He distributed 40 lakh Soil-Health Cards to farmers done WhatsApp.

He said that Haryana is conducting soil-testing each 3 years to supply farmers with captious information, including quantity of seeds and fertiliser request to boost their harvest yields. “Receiving these soil-health cards successful clip volition alteration a husbandman to utilise optimum quantity of seeds and fertilizer to get maximum output from his tract expanding their productivity and income,” Saini said. Haryana archetypal conducted a elaborate ungraded fertility appraisal survey successful 2021-22. Under this exercise, ungraded samples are collected from each acre of cultivation land, tested and appraisal is made that reflects successful the soil-health card.

“By pursuing these recommendations mentioned connected the soil-health cards, overuse of nitrogen fertilisers volition beryllium discouraged enabling balanced nutrition for the crops. It volition not lone amended harvest output but volition besides assistance trim nutrient deficiency. Minimising the excessive usage of fertilisers volition lend to mitigating the interaction of clime alteration and support the environment. With ungraded investigating laboratories disposable wrong a 20-25 kilometer radius, determination are a full of 106 laboratories wherever ungraded samples are tested successful Haryana,” Saini said.