Bathinda, April 29 -- Members of the Punjab Shrimp Growers' Association, during a meeting at Muktsar's Enakhera village on Monday, decided to approach the Punjab and Haryana high court (HC) against the state government's alleged biased policy for not treating their power connections as agricultural but continue to charge "hefty" commercial rates. The association said it would boycott all events of the state government.

Association president Sarup Singh Sandhu said about 250 farmers were associated with a pilot project started by the Punjab government in 2016 to make huge tracts of uncultivable land in the southwest districts of the state a hub of shrimp cultivation.

The association charged the state fisheries minister with not pursuing ...