The Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) has imposed a penalty of Rs 2 crore on Sun Pharmaceutical Limited for discharging effluent in an open area at its manufacturing plant spread over 80 acres of land at nearby Taunsa village in Nawanshahr district. The company has also been asked to reduce its
Just days ahead of the national capital getting shrouded in a thick blanket of smog, farmers of Punjab and Haryana, aptly called India's prominent granaries, have started setting their fields on fire to quickly clear off the crop residue of .
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Crop diversification is not a long-term solution to the problem of stubble burning and it will take four to five years to properly resolve the issue, a senior official of the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) has said. India News | Will Take 4-5 Yrs to Properly Resolve Stubble Burning Issue: Punjab Pollution Control Body.
Punjab stubble burning issue: At a workshop organised by the Delhi-based Climate Trends in Chandigarh on Monday, PPCB Member Secretary Krunesh Garg said counting the number of farm fires is an inaccurate measure of ascertaining the scale of stubble burning and that the acreage of land being put on f