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 …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of H. C. Arora Vs State of Punjab & Others dated 02/01/2024. In original application 169/2021, issue raised was in respect of inaction of the state authorities to take remedial action against contamination of ground water in village Aloarakh, block Bhiwanigarh, …
A committee comprising nominees of the Central Pollution Control Board, District Magistrate, Sangrur, Chief Engineer, Public Health Engineering Department, Punjab and Member Secretary, Punjab Pollution Control Board was directed by the NGT to look into the matter of contamination of ground water in village Aloarakh, block Bhiwanigarh, district Sangrur. The …
Status report in compliance to the National Green Tribunal order, March 31, 2022 passed in Original Application No. 169 of 2021 (H.C. Arora Vs State of Punjab & Others). The NGT has taken cognizance of an application filed by HC Arora with grievance against failure of the state authorities to …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Lakhwinder Singh Vs State of Punjab dated 02/07/2021. The issue for consideration is action to be taken for violation of environmental norms by M/s K.R.B.L. Ltd., Bhasaur, tehsil Dhuri, district Sangrur, Punjab, manufacturing rice, rice bran oil, furfural and other …
ON JUNE 8, 225 members of the gram sabha of Tolewal in Sangrur district’s Malerkotla tehsil passed a resolution to lease out 25 bigha (about 5.25 acres) of the village’s panchayat land reserved for cultivation by Dalits at a nominal annual rate of Rs 500/acre for 33 years. The 225 …
About 6,500 saplings have been destroyed in stubble fires during the last two months in the district. The authorities of the Forest Department have asked the Agriculture Department to take action against farmers who resorted to stubble burning so as to prevent more losses in future and offered assistance in …
There remain misconceptions regarding farmer suicides. There is a need to set right these erroneous ideas based on scientific studies that have been conducted seeking to devise solutions to address the prevailing crisis of the peasantry in Punjab.
The present study was planned with an objective to detect the level of heavy metals in feathers of House Crow from agrifield areas of district Ludhiana and Sangrur. In feathers of House Crow, 8 heavy metals were detected through ICAP-AES, out of which As, Cd, Pb were heavy metals and …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Gurcharan Singh Matharu Vs Parminder Singh & Others dated 06/07/2017. This is a Review Application filed by Gurucharan Singh Matharu against the Judgement dated 23/09/2017 whereby Gurucharan Singh Matharu, Director of Matharu Chemical Industries along with other Respondent industrial units …
The number of dengue cases in Sangrur district has crossed 400. As per official information, out of 1,092 suspected dengue cases, as many as 403 have tested positive to date in the district. Out of these, 65 per cent cases (269 cases) are from urban areas while the remaining are …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Parminder Singh Vs. Punjab PCB & Ors dated 23/09/2015 regarding pollution caused by M/S Matharu Chemical Industries, Sangrur District, Punjab. According to the petitioners the said unit was manufacturing H-acid, i.e. Sodium Salt, which is highly …
SANGRUR: Punjab on Thursday became the first state to operationalize 117-megawatt solar power projects following inauguration of 10.50-MW solar power plant at Sangatpura village near Lehragaga town of Sangrur district. Set up by Omega Solar Projects Private Limited, the 10.50-MW plant has been developed at the cost of Rs 84 …
Can cause dementia and other neurological problems The toxic metal, aluminium, has been found more than the permissible limit in the drinking water samples tested by the government water quality testing labs and other approved institutions. The problem related to aluminium is more pronounced in case of Amritsar, Fatehgarh Sahib, …
Out of 146 samples of drinking water collected from government schools in Sangrur district, 57 have failed laboratory tests. These had been collected by the health authorities in the last 10 months (January to October). Tested by State Public Health Laboratory, Chandigarh, 39 per cent of the samples were found …
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has told the Barnala Municipal Council to ensure proper cleanliness of the town in future. The directions came after a Division Bench of the High Court was told that the town was littered with garbage. In his petition placed before the Division Bench of …
Deficient rainfall in the state has led to a sharp decline in the water table. It may take years to make up for the loss by way of natural recharging, even if the monsoon is normal next year. In Punjab, 71 per cent of cultivated land is irrigated by tube …
Availability of potable water in schools, especially in rural areas, is a major problem. Students of many schools have no other option but to drink water having bacteriological contamination and high fluoride content. The health authorities collected 74 water samples from various government schools of the district between January and …
Sangrur district tops the state in rice yield per hectare and the total production during the Kharif 2013-14 season. This was revealed by the statistician of the Punjab Agriculture Department. The findings were sent to the Chief Agriculture Officer, Sangrur, last week. Data states that Sangrur district has topped the …
Two farmers of Sangrur district have been awarded for adoption of innovative agricultural techniques and commercialisation of agriculture. Tirath Singh of Sandaur village in Ahmedgarh block and Jagdeep Singh of Kanoi village (near Sangrur) were recently conferred with the “Innovative Farmer Award” at Agricultural Science Fair by the Indian Agricultural …
