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 …
Residents of Kharak Pandva village in Kalayat subdivision of this district are facing an acute shortage of drinking water as the canal-based water supply scheme has become almost defunct because the canal supplying water to the storage tanks remains dry most of the time . As a result, the Public …
Despite the Supreme Court directions issued to various state governments, including Haryana, to set up solid waste management plants, the plant project here has been hanging fire due to red tapism and the apathy of officials of the Local Bodies Department and the Pollution Control Board. Recently, the Kaithal Municipal …
With more than 70 government school students reportedly falling ill after consuming iron tablets, the focus is back on these tablets that are being administered to children across the state. More than 26 students of Government Senior Secondary, Jagadhri, fell ill after they were given iron tablets. The students complained …
The district administration, Kaithal, has been asked to regularise drinking water connections in all 62 villages of Kaithal block by year-end under a Central pilot project for recharging ground water. These directions have come from Sujoy Majumdar, Director, Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Government of India. He has also …
To press claim before Sharad Pawar today. Chandigarh: Haryana is set to stake claim to a bigger special drought package than its neighbouring Punjab before Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar during his visit to the city tomorrow. Haryana will seek a special drought package of Rs 4,000 crore as against …
Chandigarh: A four-km stretch that will ordinarily take not more than five minutes to cross in a car is a nearly 45-minute bone-rattling drive on the Yamunanagar-Indri-Karnal road because the contractor allotted the job of carpeting the road quit without completing it. With mining banned in Haryana and around, the …
In order to prevent the attack of yellow rust in wheat, farmers in Haryana have for the first time taken to new yellow rust-resistant varieties. Bidding adieu to earlier varieties that were highly susceptible to yellow rust, farmers this time have adopted new varieties like PBW 621 and HD 2967. …
Kaithal: Despite the SC directions issued following a Public Interest Litigation (PIL), the solid waste management project had been hanging fire for the past one decade. The SC had directed the state government to set up plants in 12 towns, including Kaithal, to treat “solid waste”. The apathy and prevailing …
The green cover of the town is fast vanishing, posing a serious threat to ecology, thanks to the mindless cutting of trees by the Forest Department to facilitate the widening of certain roads by the PWD (B&R;) at a cost of Rs 63 crore. The residents are concerned over the …
Slam Punjab govt for playing politics on a ‘non-issue’ Kaithal: From an “inconsequential” toe-wall next to the Hansi-Butana canal, Punjab may now be up against a human wall of a “united Haryana” if the mood at the kisan mahapanchayat in Chika is anything to go by. Haryana, its leaders and …
The Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam has taken a major step in automation of metering and billing (AMR) of 3,200 high tension industrial consumers in the command area of the Nigam. The area comprises the following districts: Panchkula, Ambala, Yamuna Nagar, Kurukshetra, Kaithal, Karnal, Panipat, Sonepat, Rohtak, Jhajjar and Jind. …
Nearly 100 reverse osmosis plants in three dists non-functional Geetanjali Gayatri Kaithal: Three years after they were given the go-ahead by the Haryana Government, most of the state
Kaithal/Karnal: Haryana is known to have a bias against the girl child and the provisional Census figures released last week confirmed the gloomy trend. None of the many initiatives undertaken during the past decade appears to have worked and Haryana, along with Punjab, figures at the bottom of the states …
Chandigarh: Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has approved Rs 15.30 crore under the special package for the flood-affected areas for civic bodies of Bhiwani, Kaithal and Sonepat districts. An official spokesman said here today that under the special package for the flood-affected area scheme, Rs 40 crore had been earmarked …
CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Government has devised Rs.25-crore plan for preventing floods in Kaithal district, said State Public Works (Building and Roads) and Public Health Engineering Minister Randeep Singh Surjewala on Tuesday. He said the capacity of
Several villages in Barara area are facing a flood threat after the Dadpur-Nalvi canal, which passes through Ambala, Kurkshetra and Kaithal districts, breached at several points and flooded the fields in Adhoya and nearby villages. Locals said the canal was dug in 2004 on an assurance that it would irrigate …
CHANDIGARH: The flood situation in Haryana worsened on Thursday as Kaithal district authorities called in the Army to assist in rescue and relief operations after seven villages -- Tatiana, Khushal Majra, Baupur, Hemu Majra, Lalpur, Seo-Majra and Bhatian -- got flooded due to a breach on both sides of the …
Panchkula Following the rising awareness about organic food, the Haryana State Cooperative Supply and Marketing Federation (Hafed), will now be producing desi organic wheat and CSR-30 basmati rice. After coming up with organic wheat around three years ago, the state is now experimenting with these crops. An area of around …
Haryana, at the time of its creation from the womb of Punjab was partly a parched state. Large areas were dry treeless sand dunes. Even drinking water was a privilege. Its has taken long strides since then. The State is becoming a real green land. All the villages get potable …
Kaithal: A spell of rain this afternoon in Kaithal and various parts of the district accompanied by high-velocity winds not only provided much-awaited relief from prevailing scorching heat but also added to woes of people, as it caused heavy losses to electric installations in the Keorak area of the district. …
