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 …
Judgment of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Balwinder Kaur Vs State of Punjab & Others dated 19/03/2024. Balwinder Kaur, the applicant raised the grievance of risk of thousands of trees felling due to likelihood of land sliding. It was said that illegal mining is being carried out …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item published in The Tribune dated 28.09.2023 titled as "Hills 'vanish' as illegal mining rampant in Beet area" dated 11/03/2024. The matter related to illegal mining and vanishing of Shivalik Hills, as high as 200 feet in the Beet …
The Punjab and Haryana High Court expressed its displeasure with the action taken by the Rupnagar police in handling illegal mining taking place in the area. The HC noted that only poor persons like the driver of the JCB and tipper get arrested and arrayed as accused. "It is a …
Punjab filed its report on the issue of water pollution in river Satluj near Gurudwara Patalpuri Sahib at Kiratpur Sahib, district Rupnagar. The NGT, February 2, 2023 had directed the Chief Secretary, Punjab Pollution Control Board and District Magistrate, Rupnagar to look into the issue raised and take remedial action …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dinesh Kumar Chadha Vs State of Punjab & Others dated 31/01/2019 regarding illegal mining in District Rupnagar, Punjab. A report submitted by a Joint Committee of the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Director Mining, State of Punjab and the Punjab …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Kudrat Sandhu Vs State of Punjab & Others dated 30/11/2018 regarding application to stop the project undertaken by M/s Metro Econ Green Resorts Pvt. Ltd. at village Palanpur, District Rupnagar. According to the applicant, the land used in the project …
DCM Engineeering Products, a company manufacturing automotive engineering parts, has allegedly made the lives of people residing in three villages situated in the vicinity of its plant miserable by dumping industrial waste recklessly. Heaps of burnt sand lying in streets of these villages have been playing havoc with the health …
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 …
Witnessing a stagnation in agriculture, Punjab has decided to focus on the dairy industry. Having formulated a modernisation plan for its milk plants, the state has already started describing its efforts as the Second White Revolution. The government’s efforts are being helped by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural …
Rupnagar, March 24 The Punjab and Haryana High Court Chief Justice Vijender Jain has urged the people of the state to wage a joint struggle to eradicate female foeticide in Punjab. While addressing a seminar on female foeticide organised by the Health Department, Justice Jain said: "The people of Punjab …
