Decide on farmer issues in a month, HC tells state

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 28

The Punjab and Haryana High Court today gave the state government a month’s time for taking a decision on the issues relating to farmers. As the case came up for hearing, the court was told that certain issues could not be resolved due to the imposition of the model code of conduct.

Taking a note of the assertion, the Bench set a month’s deadline for the state, while fixing July 23 as the next date of hearing in the matter. The state was also directed to furnish a fresh status report in the matter then.

Appearing before the Bench of Chief Justice Krishna Murari and Justice Arun Palli, counsel Mohinder Kumar submitted that the benefit of scheme for allocating plots to the landless was not without its set of problems as far as the implementation was concerned.

Quoting an example, he said 300 letters for allotment of five-marla plots had been issued, but the possession was not given. The Bench was also told that eight people had lost their lives in the farmers’ agitation, but government jobs were given to the kin of only five.

The development took place on a petition filed in public interest in March this year for directions to the authorities concerned to take immediate action for the lifting of illegal blockade over Amritsar-Delhi railway track near Jandiala town by farmers and labourers.

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