At least 400 trees planted during the British era in the eco-sensitive zone of Fazilka town adjoining extinct Badha Lake have been axed for constructing the Punjab Urban Development Authority (PUDA

About 40 per cent of the standing cotton crop has been affected by the whitefly attack in Fazilka making it one of the worst-hit districts of the state.

As many as 681 trees have been axed to widen National Highway no. 7 near Fazilka.

About 200 farmers whose land was acquired by the Defence Department in 1971 for constructing a bundh along the Indo-Pak border have been running from pillar to post to get the pending rent and comp

Villages in the district which are prone to waterlogging are hit the most by heavy rainfall in the last couple of days.

The farmers whose land is situated near a lake across the barbed wire fencing at Sadiqi Joint Check Post (JCP) in the Fazilka sector allege the water of the lake is damaging their crops due to the flow of contaminated water from the Pakistani side.

The Pakistani territory begins on the other side of the lake. But the land under water falls into the Indian side. “The inflow of polluted water from Pakistan has started damaging the crops on the Indian side. Our land has started turning barren,” said Dr Jeet Singh and Babir Singh, local farmers.