A school student in rural Ludhiana decided to distribute soaps instead of candies on her birthday with the aim to help her classmates inculcate the habit of handwashing ...
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The Ludhiana Police Commisionerate has signed an MoU with Bharti Foundation to build separate toilets for women in 40 police stations throughout the city ...
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Android based mobile application ‘e-PEHaL’ developed by Punjab Remote Sensing Centre, monitors tree plantation and growth of trees in different parts of the state ...
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The National Green Tribunal asked the Union Agriculture Secretary and chief secretaries of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi to appear before the bench on November 15 with strategies to prevent stubble burning in their states ...
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As only a little time is left for sowing wheat and with 30 per cent of paddy yet to be harvested, stubble burning incidents have shot up in Punjab over the last few days further intensifying the air pollution problem ...
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Punjab Agriculture Secretary K S Pannu said that the state is doing its best to curb stubble burning and is expecting not more than 12,000 stubble burning incidents this season
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Even though the administration is trying to curb stubble burning, the farmers in the state continue to defy the ban on the practice amid a lack of financial incentives
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Farm2energy, a startup in Punjab provides solution to the air pollution through establishing bio-energy plants and offering residue handling services to the farmers resulting in reducing overall costs for the farmers
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The Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has directed the Chief Secretary Karan Avtar Singh to constitute the task force to study and suggest measures to address issues of treating industrial effluents, solid waste management, and ways to proactively engage with the public at large in this cause
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Despite implementing a ban on burning paddy straw, farmers in Punjab and Haryana have decided to go ahead with the farm fires resulting in deterioration of Delhi’s air quality and implementation of emergency Graded Response Action Plan ...
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Stubble burning is a major cause of air pollution in Punjab and Haryana and also in Delhi but many farmers are defying the ban on stubble burning, claiming they are "compelled" to do so in the absence of any financial support from the government
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The three mobile applications will help farmers access equipment for crop residue management and monitor tree plantation
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