Reply from the Commissioner and Secretary to government of Haryana, Irrigation and Water Resources Department in compliance of National Green Tribunal (NGT) orders dated 11/01/2023. The report informed the Tribunal that construction and demolition waste from Ghaggar plain has been lifted and disposed off with the help of the District …
Toxic subsoil water causes skin diseases, other ailments. Influx of hazardous chemicals and other effluents in the Ghaggar has reached alarming proportions causing great damage to flora and fauna in the areas irrigated by distributaries originating from Ottu Weir near Rania town of the district. The pollution of Ghaggar is …
The Kaushalya Dam being constructed on Ghaggar river in Panchkula at a cost of Rs 217 crore will soon be made functional. Work on the project started in 2008 and it was to become operational by August 2010. The delay in construction has led to escalation of cost in project. …
Punjab says flooding due to bundh will be grave “nuisance” The Supreme Court on Monday reserved its verdict on Punjab's application to restrain Haryana from strengthening the Ghaggar river bundh . Punjab filed this application in its main suit opposing construction of the Hansi-Butana canal. A Bench of Justice J. …
Patiala: A day before the hearing in the Supreme Court on the toe wall being constructed by Haryana along the Hansi-Butana embankment, farmers of flood-prone villages, led by leaders of the BKU Ekta (Dakunda), today started a 10-day agitation at Dharmheri village. Carrying banners and placards, the farmers reiterated their …
Chandigarh: The tussle between Punjab and Haryana over the Hansi-Butana canal is set to take another turn after PCC chief Capt Amarinder Singh accused the Central Water Commission (CWC) of changing its stance to Haryana’s advantage. The CWC today claimed that encroachments in the Ghaggar riverbed falling in Punjab’s territory …
Lucknow: The flood situation remained grim in most of north India with Uttar Pradesh and Bihar being the worst affected. More than a hundred people have died since the start of the monsoon and thousands of people rendered homeless. Standing crop has been damaged in several districts and livestock of …
LUCKNOW: Flood situation on Thursday remained grim in Uttar Pradesh with a majority of the rivers, essentially in east and south-east Uttar Pradesh, flowing above the danger mark. According to the state government as many as 25 districts were declared flood-affected, while thousands of hectares of agricultural land was reported …
Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee President Capt Amarinder Singh today rejected the preliminary report of the Central Water Commission (CWC) submitted to the Supreme Court. According to the report, the Hansi-Butana canal and toe wall posed no flood threat to the state. “The report seems to have been prepared without any …
Slam Punjab govt for playing politics on a ‘non-issue’ Kaithal: From an “inconsequential” toe-wall next to the Hansi-Butana canal, Punjab may now be up against a human wall of a “united Haryana” if the mood at the kisan mahapanchayat in Chika is anything to go by. Haryana, its leaders and …
Even as tempers rise over the twin issues of the Hansi Butana canal and construction of a toe wall by Haryana to strengthen the Ghaggar bundh, Punjab today maintained the issue could be resolved only if the Ghaggar waters were allowed to run their natural course. This means removal of …
Pursuant to the decisions taken in the meeting held on August 19, 2009 chaired by the Secretary, Cabinet Coordination, Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi and communication received from the Joint Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), Shri Rajiv Guaba, for conducting a detailed field investigation on the issue of Pollution …
Forest, Irrigation Departments trade charges When the Forest Department is busy celebrating Van Mahotsava for planting new saplings in the monsoon, hundreds of green trees especially are being felled under the nose of the authorities on 110-acre of land between Dhanur and Abutgarh villages in Sirsa. The illegal act is …
While the move by Haryana to build a concrete wall to divert the Ghaggar waters towards Punjab has triggered an inter-state dispute, the two earthen dams on the course of water bodies at Chandpura near Mansa and Dabwali on the periphery of Bathinda district have also become a bone of …
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal sought personal intervention of his Haryana counterpart Bhupinder Singh Hooda to immediately issue instructions to the authorities concerned to stop the alleged protection works on outer slope of left bank of Hansi branch of the Butana Branch Multipurpose Link Channel (MPLC). Badal in a …
Amid reports of Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal objecting to Haryana about a concrete wall being built by it along the Hansi-Butana canal, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today said all such conjecture was “baseless”, and he had not received any such letter. Later in a statement issued …
During the past four years, the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) has taken several steps in order to ensure the compliance of the pollution norms by the industries and urban local bodies of the state. While stating this before relinquishing his charge as PPCB chairman on June 16, Rajat Agarwal, …
Ahead of monsoon, the construction of a 4-km concrete wall along the Hansi-Butana canal by Haryana has left the villagers residing along the Punjab-Haryana border worried. Inhabitants of the villages, situated near the Punjab-Haryana border, fear flash floods in case of heavy rainfall. Residents of Dharmheri village on Golu Cheeka …
Despite several meetings with the Planning Commission, the Punjab Government is yet to give its response to the inter-state project to tame the Ghaggar. Himachal Pradesh and Haryana have already assured the Centre that they will participate in the project. In April, the Union Government has offered to help Punjab, …
In an ambitious project to find a solution to the untreated waste flowing in the rivers of the state, the Punjab Pollution Control Board has decided to initiate a project under which the sullied water will be treated and recycled for irrigation. The project is being drawn in association with …
The Union Government has decided in principle to bail out Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh from the repeated fury of the Ghaggar river by sanctioning a Rs 1,150-crore national project. The project will aim to use the flood water for ground water recharging in the region. The project will be …
