Chandigarh, Dec. 10 -- Farm leaders, who spearheaded protests at the Shambhu and Khanauri borders against the Centre to press for their demands, including a legal guarantee of the minimum support price (MSP), have raised concerns over the delay in the Supreme Court's high-powered committee report. Fifteen months have passed since September 2024, and the committee, which was formed by the apex court to look into the agrarian crisis and recommend ways to tackle the issues, is yet to finalise and submit the report. To be sure, the SC didn't give the committee any deadline to submit its report. Jagjeet Singh Dallewal, head of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Sidhupur), who spearheaded the protest at Shambhu, said that the true facts concerning the agrarian crisis should be brought to light, and genuine and practical recommendations should be given. "The committee should recommend MSP as a legal guarantee, and a law be made that governs the remunerative price for farmers who are in severe distress," he added. While the farmers were protesting, five rounds of meetings between Union ministers led by agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan remained inconclusive. The farmers were offered MSP on six crops cultivated in Punjab and Haryana. Former Punjab and Haryana high court judge justice Nawab Singh heads the committee. The other members include BS Sandhu, former director general of police, Haryana; Devinder Sharma, a known expert in agricultural issues; Prof Ranjit Singh Ghumman, professor of eminence at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar; and Dr Sukhpal Singh, agricultural economist from Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. According to a member of the committee, who didn't wish to be named, the report, which is being prepared in three volumes, will include support to the farmers in the form of adequate minimum support price (MSP), exact calculation of agrarian debt and life, livelihood of people living below the poverty line, particularly in the rural Punjab. "We are working on a day-to-day basis, have done detailed surveys and have spoken to the experts from across the country, and hopefully the report will be submitted to the Apex Court shortly," said a member of the committee, who was not willing to be quoted as the matter is sub-judice. "We are keen to submit the report at the earliest," the member added. According to Jagmohan Singh, general secretary of BKU (Dakounda), the government in the Centre and in Punjab have been writing reports on agrarian crisis from time to time, but this has not fetched any result. "Farmers have big hopes from the Supreme Court constituted panel. Let see when it submits the report and what it entails", he added. The directions from the apex court came seven months after a section of farm bodies started protesting at the Shambu border in February last year, blocking the movement of traffic on the national highway, a major passage into Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir. In its order on the matter, a bench of justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan highlighted that while farmers have legitimate grievances, these must be addressed without turning the protests into a political tool, thereby ensuring that the larger public, especially those relying on essential services, are not unduly affected....