Haryana, UP Industries Release Untreated Waste; City Water Plants Not Fully Equipped

New Delhi: The Delhi Jal Board had to reduce production in two major water treatment plants by half after ammonia levels in raw water spiked on Monday. This is not the first time DJB has been forced to take such a drastic step and will definitely not be the last. Hundreds of polluting industries in Haryana have been for years discharging untreated waste directly into the Yamuna, which then supplies water to Delhi.

After Yamunanagar, the fungal disease yellow rust has now reached Hansu Majra, a village in Karnal.

A scientist from the Directorate of Wheat Research (DWR), Karnal, and the Agriculture Department had visited a farm in the village recently and collected samples. The Agriculture Department today constituted a state, district and block-level team to monitor and assist the scientist of the DWR.

Development at the cost of life seems to be the mantra of the government. As many as 19,348 trees will be cut for the four-laning of state highways 6 and 7 (Karnal-Ladwa-Yamunanagar road).

The Public Works Department (Buildings and Roads) has been granted permission to cut trees, but there is no mention of how the cutting of trees will be compensated.

As many as 1,240 samples of drinking water in five districts-- Karnal, Kurukshetra, Panipat, Kaithal and Yamunanagar-- have failed purity tests in the last one year. They were not found safe as per the parameters.

As per the report of the Intermediate Reference Laboratory (IRL), out of the 2,772 samples collected from Karnal, Kurukshertra, Panipat, Kaithal and Yamunanagar districts, only 1,532 were found fit for drinking.

Seven-year-old Anjali, a frail girl walking with a bucket of sewage and waste water for discharging it in an open field, is a pitiful sight.

This has become the fate of several others at Bhagpati village and adjoining areas, where the residents have been forced to become a scavenger, flushing out dirty water four times a day.

The Haryana Government has expanded the scope of health services for the children in Haryana by implementing the Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK).

Rejects popular belief that biggest threat to the species is from mobile tower radiations

Contrary to the popular notion that radiations from mobile towers are the biggest enemy of house sparrows, the species is rather being pushed towards extinction by large-scale use of pesticides.

Mining is all set to resume in Haryana following the Supreme Court's clarification that the environmental clearance for mining projects would have to be obtained by the project proponent.

Allege their land was snatched during consolidation

In a last-ditch effort to save their land, women residents of five villages in Gharonda have left their kitchens, children are not attending schools, farmers have left their fields and camping at Liluwala dera near Lalupur village in the open to foil any attempt by the alleged “land mafia” to harvest the crop.

As many as 53 confirmed and nearly 250 suspected dengue cases have been reported from Karnal alone.