Having received criticism from various quarters about the use of paver blocks around the roots of trees, the Municipal Corporation (MC) is all set to get a survey conducted of the trees that have been affected. Thereafter, paver blocks will be removed from the roots of the trees.

The survey would be done of the trees on the roads within the purview of the civic body.

More than two years after these were purchased by the Municipal Corporation (MC), the mechanised road sweeping machines continue to be money guzzlers.

While the utility of these machines purchased from Italy had been under scanner, it has come to light that Rs. 32.63 lakh has been paid in excess to the amount approved by the General House for the project. Besides, around Rs.

Brick kilns in India must form cooperatives to implement new technology and thus save themselves from the onslaught of rising prices of input material and also the environment.

Due to high land cost and banks' reluctance in financing renewable power projects, Punjab has not been able to tap solar energy optimally despite abundant sunshine.
Experts say, for a solar power project to be financially viable, land cost should not be more than Rs. 2 lakh per acre. But even in backward areas of Punjab, an acre costs more than Rs. 15 lakh.

As many as 7 lakh meters of electricity consumers in the state are out of order. This is causing huge monetary losses to Haryana Power Utility as the absence of exact meter readings increases the misuse of power by consumers.

Sources in the power utility say, out of the 46 lakh electricity consumers in the state, as many as 7 lakh have meters which have been out of order for months together.

To conserve energy in Punjab, which has a shortfall of power, the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) has decided to launch Bachat Lamp Yojana from May 2011. Under the scheme, every power consumer in the state will get four CFLs at a subsidised rate of Rs 15 each in place of their incandescent lamps.

Under an ambitious scheme of the Union government, Mohali will soon become a solar city.

The poultry industry in Haryana is set for a major makeover. A US-based company is setting up a Rs 65-crore project in Barwala, which is home to one of the largest poultry belts in the country, to generate power using hen droppings.

Where generating power from hen litter is concerned, Haryana is certainly going international.

The Haryana government has formulated a plan for mass production of bio-fuels from all kinds of biomass and organic waste. A spokesman of the Haryana Renewable Energy Development Agency said by converting biomass, animal waste, hospital waste, hotel waste, industries waste into bio-fuels, the emission of extremely lethal methane gas into environment could be prevented.

In a major relief to the food processing industry and renewable energy projects in the state, the Haryana government will provide them exemption in conversion charges and scrutiny fee.

The move will allow the government to exempt the renewable energy projects from conversion charges and scrutiny fee whereas the food processing units will be given 50 per cent concession in the conversion charges