Complaints by farmers flood ‘Meri Fasal Mera Byora’ portal

Haryana Polity and Governance

The online crop registration portal, ‘Meri Fasal Mera Byora’, is flooded with complaints of farmers. As many as 1,474 complaints were filed by the farmers, of them 686 have been resolved, while 788 complaints are still pending.
On July 7, 2019, the state government had initiated this portal, making the registration of crops mandatory for farmers to avail themselves of the benefits of subsidy and to sell their produce to procurement agencies.
The majority of the farmers complained that their land had already been registered by someone else, even though they were the original owners. Some farmers lodged compliant that their land details on the portal were not available.
Even after around one and a half year of the starting of the portal, the farmers are still facing technical glitches.
The farmers are not getting a particular land detail from the joint land record.
Moreover, several farmers who are cultivating on panchayat land are not getting OTP for registration from sarpanches as several sarpanches have changed their mobile numbers.
Besides, due to non-uploading of cultivable land of Karnal town on the portal so far by the patwaris concerned, the farmers are not able to register themselves, due to which they have to face a lot of trouble.