The Punjab Water Council (PWC) in an emergency meeting here on Thursday strongly opposed the recent moves for changes in the existing distribution system of water and said that 1991 Water Accord for distribution of water among the four provinces is linked with the construction Kala Bagh dam. "If there is no Kalabagh dam, then we should forget about the 1991 Water Accord."
The Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Faridkot, on orders of the Deputy Commissioner, Faridkot, today went to the Baba Farid Centre for Special Children and forcibly cut hair of children who cannot speak. The CMO, along with a team of doctors, was at the centre to take blood and hair samples of children.
Seechewal(Jalandhar): Environmentalist Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal announced to take out a Chetna March from Jalandhar to Bikaner along the polluted natural water resources to educate people about the importance of salubrious surrounding.
Megha Mann
Tribune News Service
Nangal, January 28
The teams of Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) and Punjab State Council for Science and Technology (PSCST) today visited the Bela Dhyani village where a large number of dead fish was found floating in the Sutlej waters on January 25.
The town of Fazilka owes its very existence to the location of Badha Lake at the place where the town stands now. In 1844, Vans Pat Agnew, the first British officer stationed in the area, selected the place for installation of a surveillance station of East India Company and built himself a bungalow on the banks of the horse-shoe lake of Badha.
Integrated watershed management is aimed at minimizing the rate of sediment flow in the streams being harnessed for hydro power generation. The main aim of the Catchment Area Treatment Plan is to rejuvenate various potential and degraded ecosystems in the catchment area for longevity of the underground balancing reservoir storage capacity.
Gidderpindi (Jalandhar), September 18 Fed up of official apathy, residents of about six villages in Gidderpindi area, where floods played havoc recently, today started work on cleaning of the Sutlej r
