Chandigarh, Sept. 30 -- The Punjab government on Monday inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Deloitte to provide technical assistance for scaling up successful crop residue management initiatives.

The MoU was signed between the executive director, Deloitte, Vivek Mittal, and commissioner, agriculture, Babita, in the presence of agriculture minister Gurmeet Singh Khudian and health and family welfare minister Balbir Singh.

This partnership comes in the backdrop of a highly successful pilot project implemented by Deloitte last year in 17 villages of the Patiala district, which witnessed a remarkable reduction of over 80% in farm fire incidents.

Divulging details about the programme, Khudian said that Information, Education and ...