Punjab raised demand for central assistance to strengthen its police infrastructure and security efforts in border districts, with a grant of Rs 1,000 crore.
Tragedy struck Mohali as a multi-storey under-construction building collapsed in Sohna village in Mohali, Punjab on Sunday, leaving two people dead and several others feared trapped under the rubble.
With the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) having an edge over Opposition parties, voting got underway on Saturday for Punjab’s five municipal corporations, 44 municipal councils, and various nagar panchayats.
Fasting Jagjit Singh Dallewal is the convener of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political).
Cautioning the Punjab authorities on the repercussions if anything untoward happens to the farmers leader, a bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan said, “The entire state machinery will be blamed if something untoward happens.
In a message, the Chief Minister said that for centuries Jathedar Takht Sahib had been a supreme temporal authority of Sikhs.
“Why are the states shying from prosecuting people for stubble burning and allowing them to escape with nominal fines," the bench remarked.
The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) in NCR and adjoining areas has empowered district authorities in NCR, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh to prosecute officials for inaction on stubble burning enforcement.
The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has approved the construction of 2,280 km roads in border areas of Rajasthan and Punjab at an investment of Rs 4,406 crore, emphasising development of infrastructure in border areas.
On the seriousness with which CAQM meetings are taken by its members, the bench noted that only five out of eleven members attended the Commission’s meeting held on August 29 to discuss the issue of air pollution in Delhi and the directions of top court were not even discussed.
