Cotton Ginning Associations of Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan have come out in protest against the Government of India's law to get certified by the Bureau of Indian Standards for making, processing and trading cotton bales. More than 100 ginners from all the three states gathered in Hisar today and raised their voice against this law of the government. In the meeting of Ginners, it was unanimously decided that this black law of the government will not be allowed to be implemented under any circumstances. If the government does not step back from implementing this law, then all the ginners will shut down their factories and will not even buy cotton from the farmers.
The meeting was organized by the Haryana Cotton Ginning Association.
Talking to reporters after a meeting held at a private restaurant, Haryana Cotton Ginning Association President Sushil Mittal said that the government is working against farmers, traders and industrialists. There is no justification for applying the rules of the Bureau of Indian Standards on cotton processing and bale making.
BIS norms are applicable to the products manufactured in the factory. Cotton is an agricultural product and it is a raw material. Cotton ginners only process cotton in their factory and sell cotton further, so BIS rules should not be applicable in this whole process. Earlier, the government wanted to implement it from 27th August itself, but now the government is talking about implementing this law from 27th November. The decision to implement this law has been postponed for three months due to the opposition of the ginners. But, the ginners of the whole country want this law to be repealed and if the government does not repeal this law, the ginners will shut down their factories.
Aditya Chitangalia, President of Upper Rajasthan Cotton Association, said on the occasion that BIS rule is not applicable anywhere in the business to business model. In such a situation, the central government is doing wrong by implementing this law. At present there are 500 cotton ginning units in Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan and all of them process 60 lakh bales or say 30 million quintals of cotton in a year. If the government does not withdraw its decision, lakhs of people associated with all these factories will become unemployed and the country's economy will be badly affected. Farmers, laborers, businessmen all will be affected by this decision.
Kuldeep Gupta, president of the Lower Rajasthan Cotton Association, said that anywhere in the world, Bureau of Standards regulations are not applicable to cotton processing or other agricultural production. In such a situation, instead of taking the country forward, why is the government doing the work of pushing back. If the government also wants to implement the rule, it can make it optional instead of mandatory. But what does the government want to declare the ginners as criminals by imposing heavy fines and jail term for not meeting the BIS standards.
Suresh Bansal, president of the Punjab Cotton Factories Association, said that the government was acting like a puppet in the hands of the corporate sectors. The cotton industrialists are doing the work of cotton processing and are not committing crimes. The association cannot allow this wrong decision of the government to be implemented at any cost because what the government wants is not possible. If the government does not agree, they will be left with no option but to shut down the factories.
Patron of Haryana Cotton Ginners Association Sumer Chand, cashier, Shyamsundar Badheria Bhuna, Bhagwan Bansal from Punjab, Kuldeep from Alwar, Ravindra from Hanumangarh, Balwant Khairtal Rajasthan, etc. were mainly present in this meeting.
The decision taken in the North Cotton Ginning Association, as told by Mr. Sushil Mittal, the newly elected President.
1. No generator will fill CCI tender.
2. All Indian ginners will go on strike from 1st November 2023. No buying, no processing and no selling.
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