Alwar News Desk: Even after the implementation of Group 4 restrictions in Alwar district, restrictions on construction work are not being imposed. The situation is that the departments which have been given the responsibility of following it, are themselves disregarding it. Despite the ban, on Wednesday, construction work was seen going on at various places in the city including the city general hospital and NEB police station, but the Municipal Corporation is not imposing any restriction on the construction work. There was improvement in the AQI of the city on Wednesday. Alwar’s AQI of 159 and Bhiwadi’s 312 have been recorded, but the danger remains.
The Agriculture Department has imposed a ban on burning of crop residues. Even after this, if any farmer is found burning crop residue, double fine will be charged from the department. PC Meena, Deputy Director of Agriculture Department, said that farmers can use crop residues as fodder for animals. You can make silage out of it or make organic fertilizer and make the land fertile and earn economic profit. He said that the Agriculture Department has formed monitoring committees under the chairmanship of the Sub-Divisional Officer to monitor the burning of crop residues. Similarly, monitoring committees have been formed at all the Gram Panchayat levels of the district, which are monitoring the incidents of crop residue burning and technical information about crop residue management is being given to the farmers through farmer seminars and farmer trainings.
Will impose fine like this
If crop residue is burnt by farmers in the district, the team will collect fine as per the prescribed rules. In this, Rs 5 thousand will be charged from farmers having less than 2 acres of land, Rs 10 thousand for 2 to 5 acres and Rs 30 thousand will be charged from farmers having more than 5 acres of land. Apart from the fine, the guilty farmers will also be deprived of the benefits of subsidized schemes of the Agriculture Department and declared ineligible.
