Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has urged the Central Government to pass on the benefit of the reduced diesel prices to the farming community which has been facing either drought or floods in different parts of the country.
In a communication to the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, Hooda has said that the price differential be made a pass-through to the end-consumer, instead of reducing the subsidy given on diesel by the Central Government. “I am confident that the Government of India under your dynamic leadership will take this farmer-friendly step to give immediate relief to the farming community at large”, he said. The farming community is facing pronounced hardship this year due to drought conditions exacerbated by scanty rainfall in some parts of the country and floods caused by excessive and untimely rains in others, Hooda said.