Chandigarh, July 28 – Haryana Chief Minister, Sh. Manohar Lal has directed the Haryana Kisan Kalyan Pradhikaran to prepare Vision Document-2047 at the earliest to promote agriculture and ensure the welfare of the farmers. Besides this, the Pradhikaran should also constitute separate committees related to farming for the welfare of farmers, and should also ensure that the State Government should include all the pivotal suggestions shared by the farmers in the future.

The Chief Minister said this while presiding over the second meeting of Haryana Kisan Kalyan Pradhikaran at Haryana Niwas on Thursday.

The Pradhikaran will act as a ‘Super Think Tank’. Under this, Committees should also be constituted on the topics like saline water, water logging, fish farming, beekeeping, poultry, mushroom farming, organic farming, micro irrigation, etc, said Sh. Manohar Lal.

He directed the Pradhikaran that researchers, experts, national awardee farmers etc. should be included in these different Committees. These Committees should work intensively on the respective areas and give suggestions to the government so that the income of the farmers can be increased.

Authority should also suggest skill development of farmers

Sh. Manohar Lal said that along with farming, farmers should also give suggestions related to skill development to increase their income so that farmers can be well trained. This Pradhikaran has been constituted for the benefit of the farmers. In this, along with the members of the government, experts from Agriculture, Horticulture, Animal Husbandry, Fisheries etc. have been included as members.

The Chief Minister stressed that Committees should be constituted at the earliest and the next meeting of the Pradhikaran should also be held soon.

Power Minister, Sh. Ranjit Singh, Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister, Sh. J.P Dalal, Chief Secretary, Sh. Sanjeev Kaushal, Additional Chief Secretary and Financial Commissioner, Revenue & Disaster Management and Consolidation, Sh. P.K Das, Additional Chief Secretary, Irrigation and Water Resources Department, Sh. Devender Singh, Additional Chief Secretary, Finance and Planning Departments, Sh. T.V. S.N. Prasad, Additional Chief Secretary Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Department, Dr. Sumita Misra, Additional Chief Secretary, Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs Department, Sh. Ankur Gupta, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Sh. V. Umashankar, Vice Chancellors, Sh. B.R Kamboj, and Sh. Samar Singh and other senior officers also remained present during the meeting.