Helpless farmers find it difficult to dispose residue through environment-friendly measures, seeks for help as per NGT’s order
National Green Tribunal asked states to provide machinery free of cost to the farmers having less than two acres of land, to farmers having medium land...
National Green Tribunal’s (NGT) 2015 direction to ban stubble burning put farmers under huge financial burden. Farmers gathered outside NGT premises and lashed out at the...
A "poor" AQI essentially means that people will have breathing discomfort on prolonged exposure to such air. On further dip in air quality, AQI will turn...
Out of 33 lakh households in Punjab, over 86 percent has already got toilets, indicating that Punjab is swiftly moving towards achieving the target of open...
According to Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) around 35 million tonnes of paddy straw are burnt in Haryana and Punjab before the onset of...
Once the famed land of five rivers, Punjab today is struggling with pollution across all its major rivers as industrial effluents is disposed without checks and...
As per the agreement, the Bharti Foundation will invest up to Rs. 30 crore for the construction of 20,000 toilets in four blocks of Amritsar district....
Of the total 22 districts in Punjab 10 have already become open defecation free. If all districts go ODF by end of this year, then Punjab...
The Punjab government aims to clean the holy rivulet and stop the sewage flow into it by 2019
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said pollution levels can considerably come down with a centralised system which could be used for generating biomass energy by mixing...
Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation (MDWS) on Friday said that three states had become Open Defecation Free (ODF) while four more state were expected to...
