Residents of 32 villages located on the banks of the Buddha Nullah river, a Sutlej tributary passing through Ludhiana (in Indias very northern Punjab region) on Saturday opposed the government move to release polluted water for irrigation purposes in their fields.
The move came to the fore during the ongoing proceedings before the National Green Tribunal (NGT) wherein the counsel for the polluting industries has submitted that the state government had prepared a scheme to divert the water in the lower Buddha Nullah for providing the irrigation facilities in over 15 villages in the vicinity by lifting the water by use of diesel lift pumps.
Reaching out to aggrieved villagers, the activists of Kale Pani Da Morcha, a civil society movement waging a war on rampant water pollution, met the residents of 32 villages at Walipur — the confluence point of the nullah with the Sutlej.
