Rabi marketing season kicks off in Punjab Saturday but, until Thursday, the state and central governments had been locked in a tussle over the mode of payment to farmers.
CM Amarinder Singh has lashed out at Modi govt for its ‘one-sided’ decision to impose direct benefit transfer of MSP to farmers. Payments are currently routed through arhatiyas.
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Very great day for the genuine farmers of Punjab. Setting land records right should be the next step . Many have taken others land by force. No one is s kinb in this country…..all I dians are equal.
I don’t understand the issue with DBT. If relationship between formers and arhatiyas are so interdependent, let formers pay to arhatiyas, if there is any loan, or full amount if they want to.
This is the exact reason SAD decide to get out of Modi Government, as they are the one who get 1000s of crores of commission every year.
All who ha e commented above should first go to Punjab and ascertain from farmers how they would like to be paid for their produce. 99.9% would prefer through Arhtiyas. Arhtiyas are the ATM of farmers. Their interdependence is inseparable.
Please keep your opinion about criminal parasites Arhtiyas with you. They live on farmers’ blood and sweat and they should be arrested for mannipulatong and exploiting farmers.
When will land ownership be linked to direct online payment for procured grains
With that move SuSu will have no source of income
Conversion of black money to legal tax free agricultural income by “URBAN FARMERS” will.be eliminated
Punjab’s true grain production will be obvious
Politicians conduit for collecting and white washing bribes will be eliminated
I think this is the revolutionary step taken by the center government, paying farmers through DBT means ghost beneficiary will be identified and poor farmers will get money for their handwork done in the fields. Government of India should implement this DBT to farmers right from current season so that the people of India come to know about this fack farmers agitation reality.
“..I told Goyal that we want to be treated as kings,”.
Badal should have known that he is not in a Punjabi music video. Punjabis are no more “kings” than other Indians. Everybody should know their place in the larger scheme of things.
If Punjabis want, they can keep all their low quality grains with them and use them for their langars. Rest of India would buy from somewhere else.
Finally the Central Govt has put Punjab and these goons in its place. Amarinder thought he was too clever by half when he dumped a local Punjab squabble at the doors of Delhi and washed his hands off it. The absurd arguments and claims of Federalism under threat also reeked of opportunism and outright duplicity when Punjab Govt has been a vampire on the back of FCI for decades..
Finally Goyal put Punjab in its place with cold hard facts.
” I told Goyal that we want to be treated as kings.” Who do you think you are, the descendant of the Maharaj Of Patiala ?? A democratically elected minister of a state who wants his own rules and systems but wants the central government to pay for it has no cards to play.
A job well done by the Central Govt. Afterall, country needs to use modern technology, cahnge old stereotype acts & procedures, bring efficiency to the system – that is the name of progress. Otherwise, what is the use of merely changing ruling party in elections.? All media should have supported the Govt. on Farm Laws, but the 4th State miserably failed.
Very great day for the genuine farmers of Punjab. Setting land records right should be the next step . Many have taken others land by force. No one is s kinb in this country…..all I dians are equal.
I don’t understand the issue with DBT. If relationship between formers and arhatiyas are so interdependent, let formers pay to arhatiyas, if there is any loan, or full amount if they want to.
This is the exact reason SAD decide to get out of Modi Government, as they are the one who get 1000s of crores of commission every year.
All who ha e commented above should first go to Punjab and ascertain from farmers how they would like to be paid for their produce. 99.9% would prefer through Arhtiyas. Arhtiyas are the ATM of farmers. Their interdependence is inseparable.
Please keep your opinion about criminal parasites Arhtiyas with you. They live on farmers’ blood and sweat and they should be arrested for mannipulatong and exploiting farmers.
When will land ownership be linked to direct online payment for procured grains
With that move SuSu will have no source of income
Conversion of black money to legal tax free agricultural income by “URBAN FARMERS” will.be eliminated
Punjab’s true grain production will be obvious
Politicians conduit for collecting and white washing bribes will be eliminated
I think this is the revolutionary step taken by the center government, paying farmers through DBT means ghost beneficiary will be identified and poor farmers will get money for their handwork done in the fields. Government of India should implement this DBT to farmers right from current season so that the people of India come to know about this fack farmers agitation reality.
“..I told Goyal that we want to be treated as kings,”.
Badal should have known that he is not in a Punjabi music video. Punjabis are no more “kings” than other Indians. Everybody should know their place in the larger scheme of things.
If Punjabis want, they can keep all their low quality grains with them and use them for their langars. Rest of India would buy from somewhere else.
Finally, the farmer’s movement leadership expose their ugly underbelly — it is all about the money. Obviously govt was right in holding firm.
Arhatiyas have been exploiting farmers since santuries. Three cheers for Mr. Piyush Goel .
Finally the Central Govt has put Punjab and these goons in its place. Amarinder thought he was too clever by half when he dumped a local Punjab squabble at the doors of Delhi and washed his hands off it. The absurd arguments and claims of Federalism under threat also reeked of opportunism and outright duplicity when Punjab Govt has been a vampire on the back of FCI for decades..
Finally Goyal put Punjab in its place with cold hard facts.
Punjab’s govt is of the arhatiyas, by the arhatiyas and for the arhatiyas.
They are least interested in the welfare of farmers.
Good journalism will explain since when Punjab is not implementing PFMS.
” I told Goyal that we want to be treated as kings.” Who do you think you are, the descendant of the Maharaj Of Patiala ?? A democratically elected minister of a state who wants his own rules and systems but wants the central government to pay for it has no cards to play.
Paying farmers through Arhatiyas is a tradition logic got me cracking.
On a serious note this speaks volumes of vested interest supported by Punjab government batting for arhatiyas.
So much for “stand with farmers” nonsense.
A job well done by the Central Govt. Afterall, country needs to use modern technology, cahnge old stereotype acts & procedures, bring efficiency to the system – that is the name of progress. Otherwise, what is the use of merely changing ruling party in elections.? All media should have supported the Govt. on Farm Laws, but the 4th State miserably failed.