Chandigarh is among 25 states/UTs that failed to submit the action plan and may have to pay environmental compensation of Rs 1 crore. In a bid to make Chandigarh completely plastic-free, the Department
The Municipal Corporation (MC) has issued challans against three persons and served notices to 65 others for watering their lawns and washing cars during peak morning hours despite a ban imposed by the civic body. The MC had started the drive on April 15 and since than more than 500 notices have been issued. The Public Health Division (PHD) of the civic body has constituted 13 teams consisting of sub-divisional engineers and junior engineers. The teams visited all the sectors in the city and conducted checks to ensure that people are not washing cars or watering lawns.
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal here today directed all the DCs to examine the reasons of burning of wheat crop in the state and report immediately to departments concerned. According to an official spokesman, Badal directed that in case of fire affecting standing crops due to spark in the electric wires passing through the fields or any other reason, the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) and Revenue Department must be informed immediately for release of adequate compensation to the farmers.
Even under adverse conditions, Punjab farmers have produced bumper crop Farmers of the state epitomise the true Punjabi spirit. Producing bumper crop year after year and surpassing national average have become a habit for Punjab, right from the days of Green Revolution. Punjab alone produces nearly 20 per cent of the entire country's wheat. The spirit and the hard work put in by the Punjab farmers have firmed up country's food security even under adverse conditions of inclement weather, militancy, diseases, pest attacks or drought.
The Himachal Pradesh government has started deliberations with the World Bank over earning carbon credits from the forest cover of the state. The credits would come as financial gains in return of effective sequestration of carbon emissions done by state forests.
The Haryana Cabinet today increased the fee for grant of mining lease from Rs 5,000 to Rs 20,000, whereas fee for application for transfer of mining lease has also been increased from Rs 100 to Rs 20,000. The Cabinet also took significant decisions to exempt renewable energy power projects from any CLU charges and increased educational qualification of gram sachivs from matric to Plus Two. It also approved revised criteria for allotting 100 square yard plots to SCs and BPL families. Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda presided over the meeting.
After monkeys of Shimla, it is now the turn of stray dogs to get housed in a dog protection park, which Shimla Municipal Corporation proposes to set up on the outskirts of the town. The Corporation has decided to relocate stray dogs to a forest area spread over 16,000 square metres in Panjeri village. The site is situated along the Shimla-Kalka highway at Ghora Chowki.
Numerous localities in the city including Desi Mehamandari, Rajpura Colony and Factory Area have been facing an acute shortage of water for the last couple of weeks. Even though municipal corporation officials have been informed about the menace, they have apparently not seen it fit to ensure round-the-clock water supply. "On normal days water is supplied twice during the day
Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today said that the present government has augmented the supply of potable drinking water in 2,691 villages during the last three years. The government has also launched the Rs 206-crore Rajiv Gandhi Drinking Water Supply Scheme to augment water supply in Mewat area of southern Haryana.
The Municipal Corporation might have allocated lakhs of rupees to upgrade water supply network in villages and colonies but in reality not much has been done about it till date. Residents still have to struggle to get clean potable water. In 2006-07, Hallomajra, Dadu Majra, Maloya, Palsora and Kajheri were handed over to the MC so that it can provide them essential services like water, sewerage and storm water drainage. It was proposed that canal water will be provided to the villages where it was not available.
There will be some relief from power cuts this summer, as 15 per cent more power will be available in the state as compared to last year. Stating this, Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary (Power) Ashok Lavasa said the extra power would be arranged by way of bilateral arrangements made with other states, including Himachal Pradesh, J&K and Madhya Pradesh.
