Ludhiana: Many bee-keepers in danger of losing livelihood, warn industrialists
The ban on export of honey has led to a massive crash in the prices of honey, which has hurt the bee-keepers of the state.
Patiala: It seems that awareness drives, campaigns and other programmes initiated by the government agencies and the NGOs for celebrating Divali without busting crackers, which pollute the environment have brought some fruitful results.
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Thursday declared that the entire work relating to the sewage, water supply and roads would be completed in all towns and cities of the state positively by November 2011.
Presiding over a series of meeting with the senior officers of the state government and heads of the corporations, municipal councils and improvement trusts of Ludhiana, Jalandhar,
The drainage department has sought Rs 1 crore more to save the weak points of Dhussi dam in Ludhiana district. Rs 50 lakh released by the government last month has already been utilised and still most points are unsafe, say officials.
The fresh demand, which has been sent to the state government for approval, was raised after the dam was washed away at Garhi Fazli on Saturday.
Ludhiana, September 6
Making it clear that there will be no compromise on the issue of environmental pollution, Union Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh today said that the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) would invoke section 5 of the Environment Protection Act (closure notice) if the offenders did not behave.
More than 2,500 trees have been cut down to plug breaches near Dhussi dam and its surrounding areas in Ludhiana.
In Kherabet area alone, more than 600 trees were cut from the forestland, though not a single tree grown by the landlords on the riverbed have been touched.
Punjab suffered a total financial loss of over Rs 104.30 crore in the recent floods that wreaked havoc on crops, property and human lives.
According to a report compiled by the state revenue department, crops on about 2.08 lakh acres of land were affected in the floods that killed 32 people and cut off 1,931 villages.
