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Much lower collector rates, how land sharks are dumping crores of black money by buying land in Punjab

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If the collector rate is Rs 12 lakh per area in a village  ,that land is selling at Rs 50 lakh leaving a huge gap of Rs  about 38 lakh  between the black and white money. Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Email:raghbirsinghbrar@gmail.com Right under the nose of the Punjab government, crores of rupees of black money is being adjusted by the land sharks in Punjab by buying agriculture or commercial lands in the state. The prized parcels of land along with the major roads ,including the state and national highways are looking to be sold, as the concreate walls have been coming up or are already up around large circle of land. The rich agricultural land is turning into the uninhabited encircled walls of concrete. The crops have been replaced by concrete which would finally result i...

In less than three days, three murder cases solved,7 accused arrested-Pragya Jain,SSP Faridkot

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In two cases, extra marital relations led to the murder,another happened due to family dispute. Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot In less than three days since the first incident of the murder took place, the district police have claimed to have solved all the three murder cases which took place in the past three days by arresting all the 7 accused in the three separate cases. “Murder of Jagmohan Singh resident of village Sandhwan took place on the intervening night of July 6/7 and a case in this regard was registered at Sadar police station Kotkapura on the complaint of Inderjeet Singh,brother of the deceased.The police have arrested three accused in the case including a juvenile.From the investigation, it has come to fore that the victim was killed because the accused suspected...

Deputy commissioner Faridkot chairs the road safety meeting

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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Deputy commissioner Faridkot,Punamdeep Kaur on Tuesday chaired a meeting with the officials concerned about road safety in the district. The deputy commissioner instructed the concerned officials to strictly ensure the compliance of the road safety rules in the district. “The people should be made fully aware about the rules regarding the road safety and their complete compliance be made,” she asked the officials attending the meeting. The DC also asked the officials to ensure that all school vans strictly follow the rules and guidelines laid down by the honourable courts and the school students be made to travel safely. The DC also asked the officials for the medical check up of the drivers of the school vans etc. Hajot Kaur,Regional Transp...

DC Faridkot issues instructions regarding digging up tubewell or borewells

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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot DC Faridkot Punamdeep Kaur on Tuesday passed instructions regarding the digging up the orwells or tubells in the district. She said that in case a borewell or well is dug up in  the district, a 15 days prior information must be given to the concerned officials. "As reported at many places in the past,some children and men were trapped inside the borewell pipes or holes and at places, despite all out efforts, the loss of life was reported. So to ensure that no such incident takes place, the farmers or the others engaged in the work must be very careful about it. No borewell holes or pipes be left open,uncovered and be guarded by barbed wires," she said in a press release today. She said no well...

The promise of the chief minister to supply canal water from June 1 failed, farmers rely on subsoil water

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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Email:raghbirsinghbrar@gmail.com The Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Singh Mann had promised the farmers that they would get regular power supply and canal water from June 1, while the power supply is more than 8 hours now leading to further depletion of sub soil water,but canal water is playing truant. “The water in Jaitu Rajbaha was released on June 5,it flowed to 100 per cent capacity only for two days and then water in the Rajbaha reduced to less than 50 percent,” said Sukhjinder Singh Brar, a farmer from village Niamiwala of the district. Rajbaha Jaitu supplies irrigation water to dozens of the villages of Jaitu constituency. “The Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Singh Mann had announced that canal water would be supplied to the districts...

Farmers must avoid banned Pusa 44 and Hybrid Varieties, government may not procure those–Chief agriculture officer Faridkot

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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Chief agriculture officer of the district has appealed to the farmers not to grow banned paddy varieties,including Pusa 44, Pila Pusa and other Hybrid varieties as those have been banned by the state government. "I appeal to the farmers that they should not grow banned rice varieties on the fields because they take too much time to mature. The farmers have already been advised by the state government not to grow these banned varieties and have encouraged the farmers to choose any PR variety,mainly PRR 126,which saves a lot of water,requires less fertilizers and chemicals and matures very shortly," said Dr Kulwant Singh,CAO Faridkot. PR 126,which was very popular among the farmers, led to a s...
Advancement of paddy sowing by 15 days, farmers exploited the opportunity to grow banned varieties ignoring the water crisis and environment over petty gains

Advancement of paddy sowing by 15 days, farmers exploited the opportunity to grow banned varieties ignoring the water crisis and environment over petty gains

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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Email:raghbirsinghbrar@gmail.com While the state government led by chief minister Bhagwant Singh Mann attempted to placate the struggling farmers by allowing them paddy transplantation by 10 to 15 days in advance, some of the farmers took it as granted and went ahead with the banned varieties. As soon as the state government announced that the farmers can sow the paddy from June 1 to 9, by dividing the state in four zones, the farmers rushed to the neighboring states to buy the seeds of banned varieties like Pusa 44,Pila Pusa and Dogar Pusa which take about 150-160 days for their maturity leading to guzzle more and more groundwater. The Punjab government had already banned the water guzzling varieties besides...

Flood gate at Rajbaha Faridkot allowing water flow into drain deprives thousands of farmers from their water turn, facility is allegedly being misused

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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot It was the interving night of June 6, 2025,when water in Rajbaha Faridkot flowed a bit lower than normal.But soon after,as the day progressed, the flow of the Rajbaha was diverted into the Deviwala branch of Langhewala drain. About some twenty years back, a gate was constructed to stop complete flow of the water into Rajbaha Faridkot at Deviwala and Sirsari village boundaries incase of any emergency. Earlier, since the water as released into the Rajbaha Faridkot, it could not at all stopped mid way and it was equally reached all parts of land it irrigated. The Rajbaha orininates from Abohar branch of Sirhind canal near village Smalsar and the Rajbaha was reportedly irrigating the land upto village Chirewan of Muktsar dsitrict. When the Rajb...

Ensure all drains, sewerage systems and village ponds are cleaned before rainy season-Punamdeep Kaur-DC Faridkot

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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Deputy commissioner Faridkot Punamdeep Kaur on Thursday instructed all the concerned officials of the departments of the drainage,sewerage and village ponds to clean them before the rainy season starts. The DC was chairing a meeting of the all concerned officials from the district to take stock of the flood control programme. “Ensure that all the drains falling within the district Faridkot are cleaned on war footage before the rainy season starts. The local municipalities and concerned officials are instructed to ensure that the sewerage systems in Faridkot,Kotkapura and Jaitu towns are cleaned.Apart from those, the village panchayats and DDPOs and BDPOs are instructed to clean the village ponds before the rainy season so that the people of the distr...

A unique initiative of the government: Toppers of class 10th and 12th spend a day with DC, SSP

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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Under a unique initiative of the Punjab government, the toppers of the class 10th and 12th were provided an opportunity to spend a special day with the DC and SSP Faridkot,Punamdeep Kaur and Pragya Jain today so that they can have an experience of the life of the civil servants, who are selected through a very tough competition of the India Administrative Services conducted by UPSC. The IAS,IPS and many other grade one officers are selected through the civil services examinations ,preliminary and mains held by UPSC every year. The government aims to encourage the students to be aspirants of the civil services examinations by providing them an opportunity to be with IAS and IPSs in the districts of the state. “The 6 toppers of the district spen...