Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Raj Kumar Vs State of Haryana dated 02/08/2023. The matter related to cutting of about 174 trees standing over the area of Government Senior Secondary School Ritoli, Block Pilloo Khera, District Jind, Haryana. According to the applicant, the principal of …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Shamsher Singh Vs State of Haryana dated 15/06/2020 regarding pollution caused by rubber factory in the process of burning of tyres at village Ikkas, district Jind, Haryana resulting in huge pollution and damage to the public health and the environment. …
JIND: Residents of 11 villages took out a shirtless march on Monday in Narwana town of district Jind seeking water. They demanded that water be released from Bhakhra canal into the minor canal reaching here and threatened that they would stop railway tracks if their demand was not met soon. …
Scientists of the Central Institute for Cotton Research (CICR) have sounded an alert for the possibility of an attack of pink bollworm on Bt cotton in Haryana this year in view of the detection of the worm last year in a village in Jind district. The cotton scientists have maintained …
The latest figures of the availability and demand of potable water in Haryana show water shortage in nine districts of the state. Authorities concerned said there was shortage of water supply from the Yamuna. They said the supply had been increased through tankers in water-deficit districts. As per sources, the …
At a time when whitefly attack has sparked farmer suicides in Punjab and Haryana, nearly 250 farmers of Jind district expect bumper cotton crop and that, too, without using pesticides. Like previous years, an insects education campaign, “Know insects before killing them”, launched in 2008, helped farmers this year as …
Jind Deputy Commissioner Ajit Balaji Joshi yesterday directed all officials of the Agriculture Department to accelerate the process of ongoing assessment of whitefly affected cotton farmers in the district. The DC was presiding over a district-level meeting of all department officers. He directed officials of the revenue and agriculture department …
The official figures of water supply seem at variance from the ground reality raising doubts about the utilisation of grants to strengthen the delivery system in the district. While figures by the Public Health Engineering Department reveal a supply of 70 - 135 litre per capita per day (LPCD) to …
In the absence of adequate canal water for irrigation, farmers are forced to use tube wells resulting in a steep fall in the water table in the district. Out of the seven blocks, the ground water table has fallen alarmingly in the past five years in five blocks while the …
Four persons have died due to swine flu and 14 have tested positive for the virus in Haryana since January 1. The state Health Department has dispatched stocks of Tamiflu to all districts for patients suffering from swine flu after deaths were reported from Faridabad, Hisar, Jind and Fatehabad. Adequate …
The inefficiency of government authorities may deprive scores of the district’s below poverty line (BPL) families of seeing construction of a toilet in their homes this year as well. A look at the figures is enough to blame authorities for the slow pace of construction of toilets. Till date, only …
A bloody clash between two groups of farmers in a Jind village over sharing of canal water left one person dead and six seriously injured. As per information, Muana village under Safidon police station of this district received canal water on Wednesday evening after nearly 10 days. In the absence …
Farmers threaten to block Jind-Gohana road, say they are being punished for electing INLD MLA Parvesh Sharma The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) may have taken suo motu cognizance of a media report in these columns highlighting the water woes of Nidani village farmers, but there is no action on …
There’s a novel experiment underway in an acre-and-a-half at Jind’s Nidana village. A group of farmers, most of them illiterate, are out to prove a point to scientists and experts: agriculture is possible without pesticides and more profitable than with the use of pesticides. Scientists of the Delhi-based National Centre …
Jind soil lacks necessary nutrients, people falling sick Overdose of pesticides to increase productivity has not only created serious health problems for humans, but has also destroyed the health of the soil. During the past one year, the Jind Soil Testing Lab received 9,400 samples of sand, but all failed …
In violation of the norms, sewage is being discharged into the Hansi branch canal. As the canal is the primary source of irrigation for many villages, the water pollution can create serious health problems for residents, if the authorities fail to stop it immediately. The residents alleged that it was …
The National Capital Region (NCR) witnessed another expansion on Monday with the inclusion of two Haryana districts, Jind and Karnal. Based on requests from the Haryana government, the National Capital Region Planning Board approved the inclusion of adjoining districts of Jind and Karnal in the NCR zone, Urban Development Minister …
Their experiment bears fruit with increase in crop production, profits Residents of 14 villages, mainly women, of Jind district have taken upon themselves the responsibility of keeping pesticides away from their fields. They have identified 204 insects, divided them into vegetarian and non-vegetarian categories and proved that pesticides are not …
Nearly 880 students, 150 of them girls, suffered from nausea and complained of stomach ache after consuming iron tablets in government schools in several districts of Haryana, officials said on Tuesday. The folic acid (iron) tablets were given to them as part of Haryana Health Department’s supplementation programme to combat …
About 15 lakh children were administered iron and folic acid tablets in schools of 20 districts today . The Health Department today launched its weekly iron and folic acid supplementation (WIFS) campaign to combat anaemia.A spokesman of the National Rural Health Mission, Haryana, said today the campaign would be launched …
