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One Bill seeks to guard the customers from hoarding and black-marketing of agricultural produce.
The three Bills launched within the Punjab Assembly on Tuesday to negate the Centre’s agriculture legal guidelines present for imprisonment of not lower than three years and high-quality for the sale-purchase of wheat or paddy below a farming settlement below Minimum Support Price.
This provision has been integrated in The Farmers’ (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services (Special Provisions and Punjab Amendment) Bill, 2020. According to the Bill, no sale or buy ought to completed below the MSP and violation of the identical shall invite imprisonment of three years and high-quality. The Bill seeks to amend Sections 1(2), Sections 19 and 20 of the Centre’s Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020. It additionally proposes so as to add new Sections which are Section 4, 6 to 11.
The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) (Special Provisions and Punjab Amendment) Bill, 2020, additionally seeks to amend Sections 1(2), 14 and 15 the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020 to make sure that sale or buy of wheat or paddy within the State is just not allowed below the MSP. The modification Bill additionally seeks to supply for punishment for harassment of farmers or fee of much less value to the farmers by inserting new Sections 6 to 11.
Meanwhile, aiming to guard the customers from hoarding and black-marketing of agricultural produce, to safe and defend the pursuits and livelihood of farmers and farm labourers as additionally all others engaged in agriculture and associated actions, the State authorities has introduced in The Essential Commodities (Special Provisions and Punjab Amendment) Bill, 2020. The Bill seeks to amend the Centre’s The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020 by amending Section 1(2) and Section 3(1A) of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955. It seeks to make sure established order ante as on 4th June 2020 with regard to implementation of the Central Act particularly, The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.
A fourth Bill — The Code of Civil Procedure (Punjab Amendment) Bill, 2020 — which was launched within the House, seeks to insert a provision for exemption of agriculture land not exceeding 2.5 acres from Section 60 of The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, which provides for attachment or decree of assorted properties, moveable and immoveable. Proviso-b to this Section states that the properties of the farmers corresponding to cattle, implements, cowsheds, and many others, can be exempt from attachment, however as on date agriculture land may be hooked up. Given the farmers’ apprehension about attachment-decree of their land as a consequence of enforcement of farming contracts or in any other case, the State authorities is looking for, by this Bill, to present full exemption to small farmers and others from attachment or decree of land as much as 2.5 acres.
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