Haryana Governor Satyadeo Narain Arya on Tuesday said the State Government is committed to double the income of farmers by 2022 and promotion of agriculture and welfare of the farming community will be one of the major thrust areas of the current Government.

Addressing the first session of 14th Vidhan Sabha, Arya urged the newly elected member of the Legislative Assembly to encourage the farmers in their constituencies to avail the benefits of three one-time settlement schemes before November 30.

The Governor said digitization of age-old Revenue Records and modernization of Revenue Record Rooms will be completed in a time bound manner.

Meanwhile, State Deputy Chief Minister Dushyanat Chautala also told the state assembly that Chief Minister M L Khattar-led BJP-JJP coalition government would bring a bill in the next session of the House to provide 75 per cent of private sector jobs to local youths.

He also said that a new policy would be framed to accord special incentives to the private industries, willing to provide 95 per cent jobs to the state youths.

The deputy chief minister told the House that youth will be focus area for the new government.

Hooda also took a dig at the promise of doubling farmers’ income.

“Recently, I went to a mandi where potato crop fetched mere 9 paise per kg. Now, if the crop fetches 18 paise later, they may say that farmers’ income has doubled,” Hooda said.

Hooda also said in the name of pollution, farmers were being defamed.

“Abusing and blaming farmers for this (pollution) is not right,” he said referring to stubble burning.

The INLD leader also targeted the government over “rising crime graph” in the state.