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 …
Acted on two petitions alleging indiscriminate felling of trees in Punjab for widening roads and those standing along the canal banks, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) today ordered that not a single tree would be axed in the state without its permission. Imposing the ban, it cited a report published …
JALANDHAR: Environmentalist and Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) member Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal has criticized the working of the board for failing to meet its mandate on stopping flow of dirty water into natural water channel even several crores have been spent on sewage treatment plants (STPs). He also said …
While the permissible limits for noise pollution in the district is 50 decibels in silence zones and 55 decibels in residential areas, the decibels have been far extending that limit every Diwali in the district. While the noise pollution levels in residential areas touched 82 to 85 decibels between 9 …
As many as 60 hectares, on which there are 600 shops, on either side of the Jalandhar-Hoshiarpur road are set to be acquired as a part of the four-laning project of national highway-70 soon. The total stretch of the road is 58 km — starting from Rama Mandi in Jalandhar …
International orders fall from Rs 850 crore to Rs 300 crore The Jalandhar leather industry is in the doldrums. Annual international orders, which were worth Rs 850 crore two years ago, have come down to Rs 300 crore. All 56 units are running to 35 per cent of their capacity, …
The sand mafia has now started targeting common village ponds and is not even sparing private lands for illegal excavation of sand. The mafia has been unable to carry out its practice of illegal digging of sand from the shallow bed of the Sutlej river due to the release of …
As many as 100 schools across the district will be getting lessons in environment conservation under the Microsoft Create to Inspire School in the district. Launched by PAHAL, NGO, in association with Microsoft India, the programme will see the students of 40 government and 60 private schools in the district …
In the danger zone as far groundwater goes, the city of Jalandhar is bogged down by various extremes when it comes to water conservation. While various units incessantly go on using groundwater for construction purposes despite a ban, rainwater harvesting projects are also falling prey to administration’s apathy. While every …
Contrary to the claims made by the Punjab Government of the state becoming the “most preferred destination” in the non-conventional energy sector with over Rs 4,000 crore of investment received to set up solar plants in the state, Punjab’s first solar energy plant installed at Lohara village in Jalandhar under …
Due to the increasing pollution in the Kala Sanghian drain, Environmentalist Balbir Singh Seechewal today took up the issue with the MC officials. He said the Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) built at a cost of Rs 50 crore was lying non-functional. Seechewal met MC Commissioner Gurpreet Singh Khaira, PPCB Superintending …
The father of a patient who died of dengue years ago, pursued the case of negligence in his son's death case for many years and in the course of his fight, chanced upon the fact that dengue and malaria figures in the district were considerably muted. There have been a …
Even as the Central Ground Water Authority of India (CGWAI) has notified the district as ‘Dark Zone’ due to over exploitation of water long ago, the administration has failed to take any concrete action for the preservation of rain water till date. Due to this, at majority of the places, …
A whopping 24 water samples taken from across schools in the district have been reported to be highly contaminated as per statistics provided by the Health Department. Putting the lives of thousands of students studying in primary schools at risk, the health and water supply departments watch on as students …
Fazilka district, with 0.51 per cent HIV-positive cases, has the lowest incidence of the dreaded disease. The latest report of the Punjab State AIDS Control Society stated Amritsar district was the most vulnerable to HIV, with 3.27 per cent positive cases. The state’s average is 1.67 per cent. Jalandhar is …
Based on primary data collected from 105 farming households spread across three districts and nine villages of central Punjab, this study examines groundwater depletion and consequent shifts of the farmers from centrifugal to submersible pumps. It also documents adaptation strategies of farmers in response to groundwater depletion. Owing to groundwater …
Following the death of a suspected patient Suman from Sangam Vihar, two more suspected swine flu patients (B category) of the district have also died. Paramjit Singh (60), a resident of Billy Brech village, and Joginder Singh (65) of Mohalla Baba Gadiya, Phagwara, both died at Patel Hospital yesterday. With …
Violating the laid norms, the Punjab Effluent Treatment Society has been operating a common effluent treatment plant at the Leather Complex here without having requisite permission from the pollution authorities. Inquiries made by The Tribune found out that the sanction by the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) to operate the …
The state of Punjab, earlier regarded as an agriculturally developed region of India, has been passing through a severe economic crisis. The capital-intensive mode of production, propagated by the green revolution in the mid-1960s, is turning out to be non-viable for the small peasantry and hence, they are being involuntarily …
Hanumangarh-based progressive farmers Shobha Singh Doodi and Shabnam Godara, chairperson and vice-chairperson, respectively, of zila parishad, have filed a public interest litigation (PIL) with the National Green Tribunal (NGT) seeking a check on the supply of “highly contaminated” canal water from Punjab to Rajasthan. The PIL, also signed by Panchayat …
That toxic industrial waste flows unabated in Buddha Nullah in Ludhiana and Kala Sanghian drain in Jalandhar is known, what baffles environmentalists in Punjab is that no political party is bothered about the issue. The Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) claims that the steps are being taken to ensure that …
