In a model that could be emulated across the state of Punjab, Moga Deputy Commissioner (DC) Sandeep Hans said the district administration, upon coming across stubble-burning, would deprive the errants of farm subsidies. The DC presided over a meeting with sub-divisional magistrates (SDMs) and other officials regarding stubble-burning prohibition.

• The administration officials will mark a ‘red entry’ in the girdawari of the errants’ agricultural land.
• Once a red entry is marked in land records, the farmer concerned won’t be able to get any benefit of subsidies.
• The DC directed the Agriculture Department and Punjab Pollution Control Board officials to keep a hawk’s eye on farmers using combines without functional super straw management system (SSMS) to harvest paddy and take legal action. 

The harvesting combines without SSMS have been banned and if anyone is found violating the prohibitory order, the combine will be impounded.