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 …
Congress harps on benefits from FDI in retail For Punjab's sagging agrarian economy, here is some good news. The meek voices of the farmers, agri economists and farmer unions seem to have been heard by at least two of the main political parties in the state which are now promising …
The Punjab Government has decided to rope in biotechnology giant Monsanto to set up a centre of excellence for cotton in Bathinda. The move has raised many an eyebrow especially as farmer unions and other social organisations working in the field of agriculture are opposed to the company’s agro-industrial model. …
Central report asks state government to initiate measures Out of 12,925 gram panchayats in the state, 9,558 have shown nil expenditure under various programmes, including MGNREGA, sponsored by the Union Government during the current financial year till October 7. The number of such panchayats during the same period last year …
To ascertain the exact count of farmer suicides in the state, the government has finally decided to conduct the second round of survey, which would reveal the number of farm suicides from 2010 up to March 2013. However, giving a cold shoulder to the demand for a fresh survey from …
Illegal mining has been going on unabated in the Industrial Growth Centre here for the past some time. Captain Mal Singh and Amar Singh, residents of Mati Dass Nagar, complained that the illegal mining was being carried out on the land belonging to Jassi Pau Wali village. The miners acted …
Contrary to tall claims by both state and central governments about reining in the suicide trend among farmers and agriculture labourers of Punjab, a survey conducted by state's universities revealed that the number of suicides in the past decade either remained largely unchanged or increased. Data pertaining to the worst …
In what would reveal the exact gravity of the agriculture crisis in Punjab, the state government has decided to conduct a fresh survey to ascertain the actual number of farmers and agriculture labourers, who committed suicide in the state till April 2013. The data available with the state government -- …
The district administration, at a meeting last evening, finalised land for relocating Kanakwal village. The village residents had in April this year jolted the government with their decision to leave the village that is located next to the Bathinda refinery. They alleged that pollution from the refinery was making life …
With a number of thermal power plants being developed by private companies getting delayed due to non-availability of coal, the Punjab Government's captive coal mine at Pachwara (Jharkhand) is in the centre of confrontation between the warring parties. Private companies are seeking a share in the coal produced from the …
Can approach purchasers, receive payments directly as govt prunes their role Arhtiyas or commission agents in Punjab will not be able to reap the healthy benefits of a good harvest. Pruning the role played by arhtiyas in procurement, the Punjab Government has decided to provide farmers an option of directly …
The report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), which was tabled in the Vidhan Sabha today, points out lacunae in the execution of works under the Pradhan Mantri Grameen Sadak Yojna. It says that notification for acquiring land for roads had been delayed. This had had serious fiscal implications …
Jhajjal and Giana villages in the Talwandi Sabo block of the district are now free of the cancer stigma with the spotlight shifting to other places following the ongoing statewide cancer survey. Owing to the stigma, it had become an uphill task for residents of the two villages to find …
In what seems to be a "low-cost high-impact" project of the Punjab Government, the Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Department has allocated Rs 6.56 crore to over 12,885 villages in the state to improve drinking water and sanitation facilities. Despite this little budget allocation of about Rs 5,100 per village, …
Notwithstanding the claims of the Punjab Government on having taken a major initiative for augmenting power generation, the fate of the three upcoming thermal plants, with a combined capacity of 5,280 MW, is uncertain. These plants are the 1,320-MW Kot Shamir Project, the 1,320-MW Gobindpura Thermal Plant and the 2,640-MW …
Notwithstanding deficient rainfall, Punjab has had a bumper paddy crop this year. Already, more than 126 lakh tonnes of paddy has arrived in various grain markets in the state. Of this, about 121 lakh tonnes has been procured by various state government agencies and 5.94 lakh tonnes by traders and …
The ruling National Conference-Congress coalition will bring a Bill in the ensuing Budget Session to facilitate the laying of the 750-km-long gas pipeline from Bathinda to Srinagar via Jammu. The move has come after Gujarat State Petronet Limited (GSPL) — which has been entrusted the task of executing the project …
Bathinda: In an effort to gather data on those afflicted by cancer in the state, the Health Department has been asked to start a house-to-house survey on October 2 in this regard. Health Minister Madan Mohan Mittal said the survey would be started from Faridkot as the district had reported …
The Punjab Government has set up a 1 MW solar power plant at Phullokhari village in Bathinda district at a cost of Rs 13.10 crore. Revenue and Non-Conventional Energy Minister Bikram Singh Majithia said the plant had been set up under a demonstration programme whose objective was to connect solar …
Combined installed capacity 3920 MW; generation to begin from April next year Punjab’s dream of becoming self-sufficient in power would become a reality, when three major thermal plants in the private sector, with a combined installed capacity of 3920 MW, start operating and begin generation from April 2013. This was …
Allege the government chose the longest route to benefit politicians, traders; demand inquiry Jupinderjit Singh Sangrur: The four-laning project of the Zirakpur-Bathinda highway has run into a controversy with farmers of Sangrur seeking a CBI inquiry into the selection of the route. They allege that the proposed route has been …
