Punjab

पंजाब में बटाला के तलवंडी झियुरां के 66 साल के बलवंत सिंह रोजाना घोड़े के साथ 2 किलोमीटर की दौड़ लगाते हैं। शरीर इतना फिट कि अपने गांव से 31 किलोमीटर दूर गुरदासपुर तक दौड़कर डेढ़ घंटे में ही पहुंच जाते हैं। ऐसा उनका दावा है। अब तक रेस में 100 से अधिक मेडल, सर्टिफिकेट्स अपने नाम कर चुके हैं। उनका

The ultimate dream for any farmer is to sell his produce directly to consumers for a maximum retail price fixed by him. There are some in Punjab trying to realise this utopia. Tarsem Singh turned full-time farmer in 2008, after retiring as principal of a government senior secondary school. Cane

The Union Cabinet has approved implementation of Shahpurkandi Dam Project, Punjab on river Ravi. For this, Central Assistance of Rs. 485.38 cr (for irrigation component) would be provided over five years from 2018-19 to 2022-23. Implementation of this project would help minimising some of the water

Around this time every year we hear of foul air in and around capital city Delhi caused by stubble burning. On days this reaches such level that it becomes difficult to breathe also. Read about this story of a Punjab farmer, who stopped stubble burning long back. When his son got married last year

With a brief window to clear the field for sowing wheat before winter sets in, farmers tend to burn the crop residue, causing smog to engulf the region. This happened till the last paddy season despite the National Green Tribunal (NGT) ban on stubble burning three years ago. However, these sons of

It’s a race against time to meet the paddy stubble burning challenge. The harvest season is round the corner and the state and central governments are working to promote agricultural mechanisation for in-situ management of crop residue in Punjab. For the first time, 40% of the 74 lakh acres under

THEY CALL it “ shiksha ka inquilab”, or the education revolution. On the faded walls, with bits of plaster peeling off, are posters of Bhagat Singh and Maxim Gorky. There’s a board outside that reads: “ Behtar zindagi ka raasta behtar kitaabon se hokar jaata hai (The road to a good life passes

26.3 quintals an acre or 6.5 tonnes per hectare. That’s what Bahadur Singh Jaria has harvested from 10 out of his 30 acres land planted to wheat in the recent 2017-18 rabi season. It is being described as the first time a farmer in Punjab — possibly India as well — has broken the 6.5 tonnes/hectare

To curb stubble burning, the Punjab Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a Chennai-based company to set up 400 processing plants for converting paddy straw into bio energy in the State. The State Government will facilitate and support the project to ensure its successful

This is the story of two village children who started their studies in Ekal Vidyalayas in their villages. Later they joined former schools and after further studies have joined the army and Central Industrial Security Force (CISF). Many others who started their initial entry to literacy in Ekal have

A new variety maturing within 125 days, yet yielding nearly as much as those now grown over 135-160 days, could provide the ultimate solution to Punjab’s woes stemming from farming of water-guzzling paddy. Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) has released a paddy variety PR-126 that gives an average

Every evening, after school homework or hockey practice, the boys and girls of Bhaini Sahib, a village near Ludhiana, grab their instruments and run to the music room. They learn to sing or play the sitar, sarod, tabla and dilruba. They learn compositions about peacocks dancing in the rain, and