Order of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in the matter of Bhisham Kinger Vs State of Punjab & Others dated 13/05/2025. The matter is related to deteriorating medical infrastructure in Punjab, especially Malerkotla district. An affidavit filed before the court showed that certain vacancies of doctors at Malerkotla have …
This study has been undertaken to assess the development patterns of agriculture sector in Punjab and the identification of the constraints operating in the agricultural sector dealing with land, labour, irrigation, credit etc.
A new procedure for conducting environmental impact assessment (eia), introduced in September 2006, is suffering from teething trouble. The September 2006 notification putting the new procedure in place was severely criticised by environmental groups for being a far more diluted version of the 1994 notification. The regulatory authorities, both at …
It is election time in Punjab. Every body has started talking about development. The word Development has become a major issue. Election manifestos are painting a rosy picture of a Developed Punjab. But, none of them is kind enough to tell what will be cost of this development? And who …
Dams and barrages upstream river Indus have put paid to much of Indus delta's biodiversity. Undivided Punjab's irrigation system was established in the 1890s. In 1932, the Sukkur barrage was built reducing freshwater to the Indus delta. In 1958, the Ghulam Mohammad barrage became operative and in the early 1960s, …
The Punjab Urban Water and Sanitation Policy of the Government of the Punjab is intended to guide and support provincial institutions, District Governments, Tehsil Municipal Administrations, Water Utilities and communities for improving water and sanitation services. This policy is a result of wider stakeholder consultations held at the provincial and …
This study provides an account of the agriculture crop residue burning in Punjab during wheat and rice crop growing periods. Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-P6) Advanced Wide Field Sensor (AWiFS) data during May and October 2005 have been analysed for estimating the extent of burnt areas and thereby greenhouse gas …
In the last week of July, most of the residents in the village Salkiana in Jalandhar, Punjab, experienced suffocation and breathlessness, following the spray of a deadly pesticide phorate in a nearby sugarcane field. Workers of the sugarcane field had used Sudarshan Chemical's sutox 100 and had sprayed 15 kilos …
The intensive agricultural production by the over use of agro-chemicals in the state of Punjab has resulted in higher NO3-N concentration in ground water, which leads to ground water pollution. The LEACHM model developed by Wagenet & Hutson is used to predict nitrogen transport in multi layered soil profile under …
Pesticide residue norms: Cola majors yet to clean up their act, govt drags its feet. Sunita Narain, the feisty director of the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), likens her campaign against pesticide levels in India's soft drinks to "a dog with a bone that it is determined not to …
Indian agriculture is coming free of the traditional mandis, with the spread of credit to farmers, involvement of the corporate sector and futures commodity exchanges Indian agriculture is once again on the threshold of vast changes that could transform the nature of agricultural operations in the country over the next …
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (nregs) aims to provide 100 days of guaranteed employment to every rural household at the minimum daily wage. But barely four months after its launch, it is running into problems If some states have seen a huge response to it, there have been few …
A paradigm shift appears to be occurring in the way policy-makers in India view agriculture: the focus is moving from increasing food grain production to ensuring farmers' welfare. The shift is evident in the draft National Policy for Farmers, prepared by the National Commission on Farmers (ncf) and submitted to …
The bedrock of southern Punjab has high concentration of the carcinogenic elements uranium and thorium. A recent study blames the high rates of cancer in this region on this phenomenon. A report to this effect was submitted to the Punjab State Council for Science and Technology (pscst) in Chandigarh recently. …
"DUE to the illegal acts of persons like the convicts, the sex ratio is declining day by day in the country... The day is not far when there would be no girl child around." This grim warning was issued by a Sub-Divisional Magistrate in Faridabad on March 28 while sentencing …
It isn’t everyday that a villages turns down a state government offer to provide drinking water. Kameana, a village in Faridkot district of Punjab, has done exactly that. The government has tried for long to build waterworks to cater to Kameana, but the villagers have resisted. And the project’s fate …
The Warehousing (Development and Regulation) Bill 2005 was introduced in Parliament in December 2005. If passed, Indian farmers could just become more bankable and financially secure. There are factors however, that threaten the gains. The bill recommends that warehouse receipts given to farmers while storing their agricultural produce be treated …
Take the pesticide problem. Although cotton occupies only 5 per cent of India's agricultural land, it accounts for 54 per cent of pesticide use. Andhra Pradesh cotton growers use more than 30 per cent of the country's pesticides and almost 70 per cent of pesticides used for growing cotton. "Since …
