NEW DELHI: With right activists complaining about police harassment of farmers going for harvesting work, the Supreme Court on Wednesday recorded the Centre's undertaking that it would scrupulously implement its March 28 decision providing wide-ranging exemptions to farmers and farm workers to carry out harvesting and related work.Solicitor general Tushar Mehta told a bench of Justices N V Ramana, S K Kaul and B R Gavai that the Centre is closely monitoring implementation of the March 28 notification issued by ministry of agriculture and farmers welfare giving exemption to farmers from lockdown restrictions to enable them harvest standing crop, participate in procurement of their produce by government and other agencies and also procure seeds for sowing purposes.When counsel for rights activists Agnivesh complained that police was harassing farmers causing them of violating lockdown norms, the SG said that while the government was doing its best to ameliorate difficulties faced by farmers and common men, these rights activists keep filing PILs to generate self-employment and district the officers from doing their on-field work. This was the second PIL filed by Agnivesh. The first one by him had sought payment of minimum wages to migrant workers during lockdown period.The bench disposed of the petition after recording Mehta's statement - "Union of India states that there is full monitoring and implementation of the guidelines issued by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare dated 28.03.2020 and it will be ensured that the concerned police authorities would also naturally follow these guidelines.Another petition filed by a management professional Trilochan Sastry expressed apprehensions about Rabi crop getting wasted this year and suggested ways and means to save farmers from penury. His counsel Nikhil Nayyar told the court that the March 28 notification nominated district magistrates to implement the guidelines giving exemptions for harvesting and farming work. The DM must first assess number of farm labourers required for harvesting rabi crops, he said.The solicitor general agreed to take the petition as representation and the bench disposed it of.A PIL complained that agencies undertaking sanitisation work were not following the World Health Organisation guidelines in reference to safai karmacharis and sanitation workers. The SG said, "the guidelines issued by WHO are binding on the government and they were being meticulously followed." SC disposed of the petition.