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 …
A joint committee comprising the Punjab Pollution Control Board and the District Magistrate, Faridkot was directed by the NGT, February 22 to look into the allegation of pipelines being laid for disposal of cattle and dairy waste which is being discharged in open area adjoining Kotkapura-Faridkot main road near a …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Amit Kumar Mittal Vs State of Punjab dated 20/02/2023. The grievance was that there was illegal dumping of fly ash in open space and near pond by M/s Sukhbir Agro Energy Limited, village Sedha Singh Wala, tehsil Jaitu, district Faridkot, …
The National Green Tribunal has directed the Haryana government to restore 123 water bodies in Gurugram and Faridabad districts and assign each one of them a unique identification number within three months. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel said immediate steps should be taken to protect …
Violating PPCB regulations, emitting black smoke much above the permissible limit The Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) has started the process to close two brick kilns in Faridkot. It is alleged that M/s Aggarwal Brick Kiln and M/s Sushil Kumar BKO were violating the PPCB rules and regulation and the …
Bathinda: Concerned over the change of colour of water in the Rajasthan canal and Sirhind feeder, which has put the ecology in danger, social activists and public representatives have joined hands in Faridkot to make efforts for making the canal toxic free. An action group has been formed with the …
The recent rain and strong winds in the district are giving anxious moments to farmers as the standing wheat crop has flattened at several places. Further, farmers in the waterlogging-affected areas said the power connections to the sub-surface drainage system had been snapped due to non-payment of bills by the …
Farmers and members of some voluntary organisations today staged a dharna in front of the mini-secretariat in Faridkot against the menace of stray animals. The farmers alleged that strays bulls and cows were destroying their crop. Besides, these were causing accidents on roads, they said. None of the roads of …
Many Dealers Held For Selling Fake Pesticide “It was like the Ja panese air strike in the film Pearl Harbour,“ said Naresh Kumar Lehri, a seed and pesti cide dealer at Singho village in Bathinda district. “They ap peared out of nowhere and lef a trail of destruction.“ Lehri was …
The state-level environment impact assessment authority of the Ministry of Environment and Forests has recommended its expert appraisal committee to grant environmental clearance to the Municipal Council, Ferozepur, for establishing an integrated municipal solid waste management facility at plant at Bir Chahal village in the Faridkot district. The recommendation was …
Even though Rajasthan Chief Minister has written to CM Parkash Singh Badal to check the discharge of industrial waste in Gung and Indira Gandhi Canal, industrial units continue to dump the waste in these canals every day. Some of the units on Faridkot-Ferozepur road are discharging a large amount of …
A study conducted by Greenpeace India, a voluntary organisation working on environmental issues, has reported an alarming rise in the concentration of harmful nitrates in drinking water in Malwa. For this, scientists blame rampant use of chemical fertilisers. The quality of milk is also believed to be critical in Punjab …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Noida Lok Manch Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 06/02/2014 regarding illegal mining going on in the State of Uttar Pradesh. NGT also asks the "Deputy Commissioner and the Superintendent of Police of Districts Faridabad and Gautam Budh Nagar …
While Punjab claims to have become the first state in north India to have installed reverse osmosis (RO) plants to provide safe drinking water, the poor quality of drinking water is reported to be main reason behind the death of 30 prisoners in Faridkot Central Jail in the last two …
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 …
To find out a permanent solution of waterlogging in southwestern Punjab, comprising Muktsar, Fazilka and Faridkot districts, the Drainage Department will take help from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Sarvesh Kaushal, Principal Secretary (Irrigation), said: “We are taking topographic map sheets from ISRO to lay new drains. Though the …
At a time when the descendants of the late Harinder Singh, last ruler of the erstwhile state of Faridkot, were engaged in a prolonged legal battle over property, the area lost precious forest cover spread over 1,500 acres of land. Several varieties of trees used to be found in the …
The Punjab and Haryana High Court today stayed the e-auction of minor-mineral quarries in 19 districts of Punjab. The e-auction of 115 minor-mineral — sand or gravel — quarries in 19 of the state’s 22 districts was to be held from July 1 to 3. But, the state had proposed …
The Punjab and Haryana high court on Monday stayed e-auction of minor mineral quarries in 19 districts of Punjab. Division bench comprising Justice Jasbir Singh and Justice G S Sandhawalia passed the orders on a petition filed by Chandigarh resident Brinder Singh Dhillon. The petitioner had alleged that the state …
The Health Department may claim to have covered 97.78 per cent population of the state in the door-to-door cancer headcount drive, but in Faridkot the discrepancy between the cases reported in the survey and the number of patients under treatment at Guru Gobind Singh Medical College and Hospital (GGSMCH) has …
In 2009, a government survey had counted 7,738 people living with cancer across Punjab. Now that a fresh survey has counted 23,874, over three times as high, the government has acknowledged the need to identify the causes and tackle what is clearly a menace. "Fresh studies will have to be …
