Financial grant of Rs.1 crore for every stubble free district in Punjab

Chandigarh February 25: In a move to get rid of menace of straw burning in the state, government has announced an incentive for each district and village with a financial grant of Rs 1 crore and Rs 1 lakh respectively, which were free from the stubble burning across the state.

Disclosing this here today an official spokesperson of the Punjab Government said that this decision has been taken to curb the practice of stubble burning, which was not only health hazardous but equally detrimental to the fertility of soil. He said that only resorting to punitive measures to end this curse would not yield it would bring desired results if the people were properly motivated to renounce this anti-environment and pollution causing phenomena.

He also said that it was also decided that the agriculture scientists, environment experts and farmers to join hands for curbing this unhealthy practice with multi dimensional problems affecting the human health besides creating ecological imbalance. At the same time he also asked the farmers not to join the mad race for sowing one crop after another just to reap maximum profits rather they should be enlightened enough about the disastrous effects of stubble burning, which had far more harmful.