Archive · 16 Dec 2025
Haryana CM proposes mandi reforms
Haryana's Chief Minister, Nayab Singh Saini, had a meeting to talk about improving the markets where farmers sell their crops.
He wants to make these markets more modern, transparent, and friendly for farmers.
He suggested giving special spaces to farmers who use natural farming methods.
He also proposed setting up help centres in every market where farmers can quickly solve their problems.
The Chief Minister wants to make sure that women farmers have safe places to work and trade.
He stressed the importance of using technology to make everything more transparent, like digitising the process of collecting fees.
He also talked about improving facilities in the markets, such as sheds, drinking water, toilets, and rest houses.
Additionally, he wants to set up cold storage facilities near farms and improve road connections to the markets.
He also suggested using solar energy to power the markets.
Haryana CM Nayab Singh Saini proposed initiatives to transform state’s mandis into modern, transparent, and farmer-friendly markets.
He suggested giving priority to farmers practising natural farming and setting up farmer assistance centres in every mandi.
Saini stressed the need for safe spaces for women farmers and greater transparency in market fee collection.
He emphasised the digitisation of all processes, from issuing gate passes to collecting market fees.
The CM highlighted the need for improved infrastructure, cold storage facilities, better road connectivity, and the use of solar energy in mandis.
- Who
- Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini
- What
- Proposed initiatives to transform state’s mandis
- When
- December 15, 2023
- Where
- Chandigarh, Haryana
- Why
- To modernise, transparent, and farmer-friendly market system
- Event
- Marketing Board meeting
- Date
- December 15, 2023
- Location
- Chandigarh, Haryana
- Initiatives
- Harit Mandi, Khushaal Farmer, farmer assistance centres, digitisation, cold storage facilities
- Focus Areas
- Natural farming, women farmers, transparency, road connectivity, solar energy
- Procurement
- 24 crops procured at MSP, e-procurement, DBT
- Infrastructure
- Sheds, drinking water, toilets, rest houses, cold storage
- Energy
- Solar energy for mandis
Sources
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