Chandigarh, December 14- Haryana Cabinet which met under the Chairmanship of Chief Minister, Sh. Manohar Lal here today accorded approval to the draft of the Haryana Rural Development (Amendment) Bill, 2022 to further to amend the Haryana Rural Development Act, 1986.

This Act may be called the Haryana Rural Development (Amendment) Act, 2022 and shall be deemed to have come into force with effect from October 1, 2022. As per the amendment, now State Government can levy the Haryana Rural Development fee at a rate to be fixed on all agricultural produce including paddy of all varieties, w.e.f October 1, 2022.

In the said Act, for sub-section (1) of section 5 of the Haryana Rural Development Act, 1986 has been substituted, meaning that a fee shall be notified at a rate, as may be fixed by the State Government from time to time, on the sale proceeds of agricultural produce bought or sold or brought for processing in the notified market area levied on the dealer for the purposes of the Act, provided that except in case of agricultural produce brought for processing no fee shall be leviable in respect of any transaction in which delivery of the agricultural produce bought or sold is not actually made and the fee shall be leviable on the dealer only in respect of a transaction in which delivery is actually made.

Now the State Government has also decided to fix the Haryana Rural Development fee on paddy of all varieties, at the rate of Rs. 50 per quintal if sold at a price of over Rs.2500 per quintal on a lump-sum basis and at the rate of 2 percent of the sale proceeds if the paddy is sold at a price up to Rs.2500 per quintal. It has been further directed that this decision of the State Government would be implemented with effect from October 1, 2022 after the amendment in the HRD Act is passed by the Legislative Assembly.