A senior officer said that had the funds been allocated for repairing the bandh and constructing a pucca road (metalled road) on it, the state could have prevented floods in many areas.
A total of 26,280 people have been evacuated from the waterlogged areas and taken to safer places. This includes 14,296 in Patiala, 2,200 in Rupnagar, 250 in Moga and 300 in Ludhiana.
In the context of groundwater, where there are multiple stakeholders with differentiated but real interests in using and conserving this precious resource, merely legislating or regulating in a traditional way (top-down approach) may not be the answer. Therefore, lawmakers in Punjab may experiment with negotiated rulemaking in which the stakeholders and the rights holders play a key role in drafting the proposed regulation
AAP MLA Gurdev Mann is everywhere, plugging breaches, carrying kids, planting paddy, and inviting Oppn ire. It's but natural, he says, that he will be Deputy CM