Mann government working diligently to bring farmers out of economic crisis: Malvinder Singh Kang

ow farmers can increase load of tubewell by paying only Rs 2500 instead of Rs 4750: 

Chandigarh, June 10: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Punjab on Friday has welcomed Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann's decision to reduce the fee for load enhancement on tubewell by 50 per cent. 

AAP Punjab's chief spokesperson Malvinder Singh Kang said that this decision of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann is a big step towards saving the agriculture and farmer of Punjab.

In a press conference at the party headquarters on Friday, Malvinder Singh Kang lauded the Mann government's decision and said that Punjab is an agricultural state and Punjab is a predominantly agrarian economy with a large section of its population dependent on farming. 

Aiming to ease the financial burden of the farmers by reducing the cost of cultivation, CM Mann took this historical decision and load enhancement on tubewells has been reduced to Rs 2,500 from the existing Rs 4,750.

He said that only by implementing these kind of pro-farmers decisions of the government, farmers can be rescued from the economic crisis.

The AAP leader said that the Aam Aadmi Party has started changing the traditional cropping pattern of wheat and paddy to improve agriculture to save farmers and farming. The government has decided to do direct sowing of paddy in the interest of paddy farmers and has also started giving incentives to the farmers for this. 

Mann government is also going to stop the arbitrariness of the sellers of pesticides and fertilizers and will take strict action against the sellers of fake medicines.

Criticizing the previous governments, Kang said the Akali Dal, Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress governments used to hold "industrial and business conferences" in big hotels in other cities like Mumbai, which did not benefit the people of Punjab. While the previous governments have been ineffective in the upliftment of farmers, the Mann government has taken decisions at the grassroots level to bring reforms in the farming.

Replying to a media query, Kang said that the B JP-led central government is mocking farmers by only marginally increasing the MSP of some crops.