Reply by way of affidavit by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in the matter of Public Action Committee & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 19/03/2025. The CPCB report was in compliance with the NGT order, November 29, 2024. The matter related to discharge of treated effluent …
New Delhi: In an indictment of ham-handed approach towards infrastructure projects, the World Bank is downgrading the 412mw Rampur hydel plant being constructed in Himachal Pradesh by Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam Ltd, which recently concluded its IPO, on ground of tardy progress and management slack arising from long-pending vacancies on …
The nearby National Fertilizers Limited might have released its effluents into the river Nangal: Industrial wastes being dumped into the Sutlej have once again claimed aquatic life over an area of 10-12 km here. A large number of fish and prawns were found floating downstream the Nangal Dam towards Dadauli …
Nangal: The Nangal Municipal Council is all set to have a new treatment plant to meet with requirements of those areas that are dumping their sewage into the Sutlej thereby polluting it. From the chungi No. 1 area, the polluted water falls into nullah and further mingles with the Sutlej …
India and China have signed an agreement for sharing flood-related hydrological data for Brahmaputra during the monsoon season. The agreement follows the renewal of an MoU between the two countries during the visit of the then External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee to Beijing in 2008.
Nangal: In yet another evidence of Himachal Pradesh industrial units polluting Punjab waters, industries situated in Babri village of the Tahliwal Phase II area of the hill state, have inserted a long pipe that opens into the Swan rivulet, spewing toxic pollutants into it. SDM Nangal Lakhmir Singh has made …
THE untreated sewerage water of the cities is a big problem in Punjab with its stink making life a hell for the urbanites. With no treatment facilities at most of the places, water flows through open nullahs and pollute the water bodies, including rivulets, water streams and even the rivers. …
After the administration and Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) drastically failed to meet its dead line of 2008 to preserve the natural water source
Industrial pollutants flowing down Sutlej from Himachal Pradesh have jeopardised the lives of thousands of winged visitors to the Nangal national wetland. Residents complain of the colour of the river water, which has changed to black, near Brahmla Khad. Even the area contractor for fishing, Vijay Kumar, accepted that the …
Chandigarh: Punjab chief minister, Parkash Singh Badal has unveiled a Rs 1,388-crore plan for the cleaning of river Satluj (Rs 1,076 crore), Beas (Rs 222 crore) and Sirhind canal (Rs 90 crore) to provide clean water from river and canal system within next two years. Out of total Rs 1,388 …
The Punjab government has worked out an extensive plan to clean up pollution from the Sutlej and Beas over the next two years. Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal said a comprehensive strategy had been worked out to ensure that effluents and other pollutants discharged into the rivers across its course …
Just days after dead fish was found floating on the Sutlej and industrial pollution wreaking havoc in the state, Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal today sought the release of Rs 302 crore from the Union Environment Ministry to control pollution in the Sutluj and Ghaggar rivers. Badal today met Union …
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Thursday urged Union Minster of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh to immediately release Rs 302 crore for the abatement of pollution of rivers Sutlej and Ghaggar. Chief Minister Badal, who met Ramesh at his office in New Delhi, apprised him of …
Nangal: The Punjab State Human Rights Commission has taken cognizance of the incident of death of thousands of fish in the Sutlej waters at Nangal. The commission has sought report in this regard from the state government, through the Chairman, Punjab State Pollution Control Board (PPCB), Patiala, and the Principal …
Pollution of rivers first affects its physico-chemical quality; later on it systematically destroys the community disrupting the delicate food web. To assess the level of pollution of main rivers of Punjab, Sutlej and Beas, water quality indices have been calculated with the help of sixteen water quality physico-chemical parameters using …
Relations between Punjab and Rajasthan have taken a new dip with the Punjab Government taking exception to Rajasthan formulating permanent schemes costing Rs 101.69 crore to utilise Ghaggar water. The Punjab Chief Secretary has written a strongly worded letter to his counterpart in that state saying that
Almost a year after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurated the 450 MW Baglihar power project on Chenab river in Jammu & Kashmir, the Union government is all set to push work on the second power project (Baglihar-II) on priority basis. The high-level team comprising over a dozen Central secretaries that …
Industrial waste from the Gwalthai industrial area in Himachal has been polluting the Sutlej in Punjab. The waste has been flowing from the Gwalthai area into the Sutlej 500 m from the national wetland at Nangal for two days. People working near Talwara khud have complained of infection on the …
Sinking feeling: water demand has surged with increased rice growing in Punjab. Weak monsoon rains this year have exacerbated the shortfall Punjab is the granary of India thanks to marvels of Victorian engineering such as the Roper Headworks. The 127-year-old system of small stone dams and hand-operated iron gates diverts …
