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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot June 11,2026 Agriculture Department and was selling agricultural inputs from premises licensed only for pesticide business — a violation of Clauses 7 and 8 of the Fertiliser Control Order, 1985, and Section 3 and 7 of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955. S. Gurmeet Singh Khudian said that 140 quintals of illegal fertilisers could have devastated thousands of acres and harmed farmers financial interests. Chief Minister S. Bhagwant Singh Mann led Punjab Government will not allow any company or any person to compromise the quality of agricultural inputs in Punjab. Directing all Chief Agriculture Officers (CAOs) to intensify surprise inspections, S. Gurmeet Singh Khudian stated, “Violating the Fertiliser Control Order is a crime against our agrarian co...

Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot June 11,2026 The Government of India has selected Faridkot district for implementing fertilizer distribution through the Fertilizer Supply Application System (FSAS) as a pilot project. Under this initiative, farmers in Faridkot district will purchase fertilizers through an online portal.The Government of India is launching a portal called Framework for Fertilizer Sale (FFS), through which farmers will be able to purchase fertilizers. Training programs are being organized for both farmers and fertilizer dealers regarding the new system.As part of this initiative a workshop was conducted for fertilizer dealers from the Kotkapura and Jaito. Addressing the participants Dr. Gurpreet Singh, Block Agriculture Officer, Kotkapura explained that farmers will now...

The sub soil water is lowering each year,farmers are chasing it down and down. Raghbir Singh Brar Email:raghbirsinghbrar@gmail.com Faridkot June 10,2026 Whatsoever the statics tell, but practically going by the version of the farmers, subsoil water in Punjab is alarmingly going down.The AAP led government's move to advance the paddy transplantation by 10 days or so, from June 5 onwards,instead of June 15 onwards earlier, is a hard blow to the precious source of sub soil water. The then Punjab government led by Captain Amarinder Singh had passed “The Punjab preservation of subsoil water act 2009” to save the depleting level of the ground water in 2009 and the farmers had allegedly accepted it too.Late transplantation of paddy yielded good results in changed weathe...

Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot June 9,2026 DC Faridkot Rahul Chaba said that International Yoga day is going to be observed at district level at Darbar Ganj at Faridkot on June 21. “The Punjab government has launched this programme to keep the people stay away from the drugs and keep physically fit.So, at the district level, the Yoga programmes are going to be held at three places in Jaitu,Kotkapura and Faridkot town.In Jaitu, it would be organised at Panchayati Gaushala at Jaitu,Lala Lajpat Rai Park at Kotkapura and at Darbar Ganj in Faridkot between 6 am to 7 am,” said Rahul Chaba, sharing this information with the media after taking stock about the preparation of International Yoga day. “The people would be trained in Yoga postures and they would be made to repeat these...

Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Navroj Singh, a student of the Dasmesh Public School Faridkot,who left for Canada after completing his senior secondary with medical stream, has topped the University of North British Columbia in his bachelor programme. Navroj Singh is the son of the senior journalist Nirmal Singh Sadnanwalia from Faridkot. He left India in 2021 and pursued a medical course.After the completion of the course,he got PR and then again joined bachelor degree course at the university of UNBC,where he topped the university. He is doing a job in mental health at a government hospital in Canada. “We are proud of him.He was very intelligent and always confined to his studies.When he left for abroad on study permit, he did not seek any consultants' help.He explored ...

Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot The farmers,backed by Bharti Kisan Union Sidhupur Ekta ,have been spearheading a campaign against the Punjab Land mortgage bank Faridkot allegedly due to some arbitrary actions of the bank. The stage protest began after two brothers from village Hari Naoun committed suicide by jumping against a train. “Our protest began on March 30 and till date,it has reached at about 70th day.We have received about 139 complaints from the farmers against the bank.Now we are going have a meeting at higher level tomorrow,’ said Bohar Singh Dhaliwal,district president of BKU Sidhupur Ekta. “The bank retains the cheques from the farmers who avail the loans from it.We want to get all pre signed cheques back. Next, some of the farmers had allegedly paid off t...

Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot June 7,2026 The 35th martyrdom day of comrade Amolakh Singh Aulakh and 6 companions was observed by paying them tribute at their memorial in the village Aulakh today. The tribute was paid by his old companion Sukhdarshan Ram Sharma and and comrade Hardev Arshi, former MLA,who unfurled the red flag of the party at his memorial. Comrade Aulakh was killed allegedly by militants on June 7,1991 when he entered in the election fray despite the boycotts by the militant groups.

Raghbir Singh Bar Faridkot June 7,2026 Kultar Singh Sandhwan, the speaker Punjab Vidhan Sabha on Sunday honoured the 29 newly elected councilors from the Kotkapura town who are now going to take command of the civic body for the next five years. “I wish they good future and hope they would come up to the expectations of the locals who have elected them with high hopes.This is the first election of the local municipality that elections have been held free and fare,No nominations were illegally canceled and no arbitrary force was used.I have done all the works on the merit basis and not a sigle paise has been received as corruption,” Kultar said addressing the MCs. “The Bhagwant Mann government has been committed to the welfare of the public.A large number of the jobs have...

The Punjab Express.com spoke to the new SSP Gurbans Singh Bains on various issues at length and excerpts are as under. Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Gurbans Singh Bains,who has replaced Dr Pragya Jain as new SSP said that Yudh Nashina  Virudh (War Against Drugs) would be his top priority as per the directions of the Punjab government led by Chief minister Bhagwant Singh Mann and under strict guidelines of Gaurav Yadav,DGP Punjab. “Yes, my top priority as the new district chief would be to eliminate drugs from the society.You know, the Punjab government led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann has committed to eliminate rugs from the society.Out DGP Gaurav Yadav has given it top priority.So, Faridkot police shall spare no drug pedlar or smugglers.Strict action would be t...

Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot June 6,2026 Jal Jeevan Bachao Morcha and many other lovers of the environment assembled on Friday in front of the now defunct sugar mill Faridkot,which is located on Faridkot –Kotkapura road,observing the world Environment day Friday. The Sugar mill,which played a revolutionary role encouraging the farmers to adopt sugarcane farming in the 1990s,had long ago shut its operations,but it has over 750 decades old trees on its premises which provide a clean environment to the Faridkot town. About a little less than 80 acres of land belonging to the then sugar mill had been allegedly first alotted to PUDA during the congress government and then to Punjab Small Scale Industries  to set up a focal point on this land by the AAP government. ...