The shortage of staff in the Agriculture and Horticulture departments has prompted farmers to bring their disease-affected plants to the offices of agricultural experts. The appearance before the court was necessitated as residents of Lal Singh Basti had filed a case in the court against seven district-level officials on August 17 alleging that work on laying sewer in the area has been delayed.įarmers take diseased Plants to Agri offices

The counsel for various parties in the Lal Singh Basti sewer case appeared before the court of the additional civil judge, senior division, Jasvir Hearing in Lal Singh Basti sewer case on Sept 10 The initiative was taken by the university to strengthen its base and increase contacts with the farmers at the grassroots level. Searching for tech-savvy persons who can act as an ambassador or 'Doot' for the Punjab Agriculture University (PAU) in the villages is proving to be a tall order for scientists of the university. Search for ‘Doot’ proving to be a tall order for PAU

(From left) Children wade through knee-deep water on a street in Paras Ram Nagar on Wednesday former MC Vijay Kumar helps children reach home on a boat that he plied on the waterlogged road kids with bicycles on an inundated road. The boat was plied in the Paras Ram Nagar area by a former municipal councilor, Vijay Kumar, himself a resident of this locality. It was an irony of sorts for a region once known as the land of the sand dunes. Roads turn into rivulets in Paras Ram Nagarīoats plied on the waterlogged streets of the city today after the area experienced fresh showers.

Knee deep in doot