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Buddha Dariya water pollution: 'Punjab govt, Centre downplaying crisis,' says PAC after NGT hearing

July 23, 2025 11:33 am

Public Action Committee (PAC), urged the bench to implement PPCB’s own closure orders for the CETPs and accused the Board and industry players of collusion to delay action.

Punjab Lokpal issues notice to minister Barinder Kumar Goyal, PPCB over failure to stop illegal mining

January 16, 2025 2:57 pm

The complaint by an RTI activist said the AAP government allowed illegal crushers to reopen after forcing them to down for a few months in 2022.

A farmer picks ears of paddy left over by a harvester in a field in Kalampura, Haryana. (Reuters)

Punjab to have 37 paddy straw pelletisation units by Nov: PPCB

September 28, 2024 7:51 am

Last year, the Punjab Department of Science, Technology, and Environment had issued a notification instructing brick kilns to replace 20% of their coal usage with paddy straw-based pellets, effective May 1, 2023.

During a cleanliness drive of Buddha Nallah in Ludhiana

PPCB orders dyeing units to stop discharge in Buddha Nallah

September 27, 2024 8:38 am

With no arrangements for water reuse, fate of 200 dyeing units in limbo.

ED sources revealed that Malbros International has been implicated in severe environmental damage, including soil and groundwater contamination at its factory in Zira tehsil in Ferozepur district.

ED conducts searches at places linked to liquor firm Malbros International over environmental violations

July 16, 2024 1:00 pm

The Enforcement Directorate carried out searches across Punjab, Delhi and MP at locations linked to Malbros International, a liquor firm accused of soil and groundwater contamination in Punjab’s Ferozepur district.

Notice against firms for not recycling waste

January 07, 2023 3:52 am

MLA Chadha said that as per instructions issued for the year 2022-23, it is mandatory for the companies to recycle 70 per cent of the waste plastic envelope.

How replacing coal with paddy straw in brick kilns can help address stubble burning menace

September 19, 2022 6:39 pm

In a letter to brick kiln owners, the PPCB has said that the Punjab government is formulating a policy for the mandatory replacement of 20% coal with paddy straw-based pellets.

Punjab: NGT disbands panel formed to monitor pollution in Sutlej, Beas

January 29, 2021 9:39 pm

The NGT said that the “ownership of the issue may now be taken over by the Chief Secretary, Punjab who may...personally monitor progress of compliance at least once in a month and also evolve an appropriate administrative mechanism to handle the grim situation”.

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Punjab: Over 2,500 stubble burning cases so far, figure likely to shoot up

October 24, 2018 5:42 am

As per the data available with nodal officer Dinesh Singla, who is Executive Engineer, PPCB, a total of 2589 fire incidents have been reported in Punjab this paddy season till October 21 in which Amritsar tops with 535 cases, followed by Tarn Taran with 494 cases.

Uproar over Doraha canal video: Two-member PPCB panel visits factory, claims no ‘industrial waste’ found

June 12, 2018 11:40 pm

A Daily Diary Report (DDR) was registered at Doraha police station on the complaint of irrigation and canals department under Section 70 of the Canal and Drainage Act, 1873.