Reply on behalf of state of Punjab through District Magistrate Bathinda in OA 413 of 2021 Bikramjit Singh Shergill Vs State of Punjab. The report was in compliance of the National Green Tribunal order dated December 20, 2023. The matter related to management of M/S JITF waste plant, Bhatinda. The …
Another likely closure of the Sirhind canal in Bathinda for 21 days is likely to deepen the water crisis in the city. The water flow in the canal is to be blocked in view of the construction of a footover bridge for Uriya Colony situated adjacent to the Guru Nanak …
Workers of private company ‘dump’ waste by the roadside causing chaos While the entire administration is busy with the visit of Bathinda MP and Badal bahu, Harsimrat Kaur Badal, city residents are struggling to get rid of the foul smell emanating from garbage at numerous places in the city. Workers …
Chandigarh, November 24: Ending the controversy over allotment of land for disposal of waste in Patiala, the gram panchayat of Dudhar village has handed over 20 acres of land to the Patiala Municipal Corporation. Of the total eight clusters, barring Pathankot, work has already been allotted for the Ferozepur, Jalandhar …
The Public Works Department (PWD) is gearing up to initiate work on the four-laning of two important national highways allotted to it by the Union Ministry for Road Transport and Highways. These are Amritsar-Bathinda national highway via Verka-Tarn Taran-Mudki-Kotkapura-Baja Khanna-Jida and Jalandhar-Moga-Barnala-Khanuri (Sangrur). "We have completed most of the paper …
Kanakwal (Talwandi Sabo), April 11: Octogenarian Hakkam Singh, a 1962 Indo-China war veteran, is on the forefront of another battle. He is determined to rescue his village, Kanakwal, and the adjoining Phulokhari village from the pollution caused by the Bathinda refinery. Accompanied by fellow residents, he has been squatting on …
After failing to introduce a Bill in the recently concluded Budget Session of Legislative Assembly, the state government would bring an ordinance to facilitate the laying of 750-km-long gas pipeline from Bathinda to Srinagar, via Jammu. To cover 8 dists The gas pipeline would originate from Bathinda will cover eight …
Bathinda, January 19: The city residents suffering pollution from Guru Nanak Dev Thermal Plant here for decades can finally breathe easy. With renovation and modernisation of the third unit of the plant now complete, its pollution level has come down drastically. The life of the plant too has increased by …