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Parveen Arora

Tribune News Service

Karnal, April 3

The district administration also allowed the procurement of wheat crop without the schedule in grain markets after the daylong protest by farmers at the office of the Karnal Market Committee on Saturday. The farmers alleged that were not being allowed to enter grain markets without the schedule.

However, the farmers called off the protest after Deputy Commissioner Nishant Kumar Yadav assured them that gate passes would be issued even to those who come without the schedule. But he made it clear to the farmers that the gate passes would be issued only to those who get their crops registered on the ‘Meri Fasal Mera Byora’ portal. Those who were yet to register on the portal could do so on April 5 and 6. He added that the state government had made the registration of crop on the portal mandatory, and accordingly SMSes were being sent to the farmers about the schedule.

“We apprised the government about the issue of the farmers and it allowed the procurement of wheat without the schedule. Gate passes will be issued manually to those whose crop has been registered on the portal,” said Yadav. He appealed to the farmers to bring their crop after cleaning and drying it. After pacifying the farmers, the Deputy Commissioner along with SP Ganga Ram Punia and SDM Ayush Sinha got the auction of the wheat crop conducted. He also assured the farmers that their payments would be transferred to their bank accounts within 48 hours and the commission of the arhtiyas would be delivered to them.

Earlier in the morning, on the call of the Bharatiya Kisan Union, hundreds of farmers and arhtiyas gathered at the office of the market committee. The SDM tried to pacify them but they remained adamant on their demand. “We have been opposing the scheduling system since the first day, as it is not feasible,” said Rajnish Chaudhary, president of the Karnal Arhtiyas’ Association.

Jagdeep Singh Aulakh, a member of the state core committee of the BKU (Charuni), said that farmers could not wait for the schedule to be issued to them as the crop was ripening and the threat of fire looms large.