Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 73
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Code Context


        trigger_error($message, E_USER_DEPRECATED);

    }
$message = 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 73
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php.'
$stackFrame = (int) 1
$trace = [
	(int) 0 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ServerRequest.php',
		'line' => (int) 2421,
		'function' => 'deprecationWarning',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead.'
		]
	],
	(int) 1 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
		'line' => (int) 73,
		'function' => 'offsetGet',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'catslug'
		]
	],
	(int) 2 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Controller/Controller.php',
		'line' => (int) 610,
		'function' => 'printArticle',
		'class' => 'App\Controller\ArtileDetailController',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 3 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 120,
		'function' => 'invokeAction',
		'class' => 'Cake\Controller\Controller',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 4 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 94,
		'function' => '_invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 5 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/BaseApplication.php',
		'line' => (int) 235,
		'function' => 'dispatch',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 6 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\BaseApplication',
		'object' => object(App\Application) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 7 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 162,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 8 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 9 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 88,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 10 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 11 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 96,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 12 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 13 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 51,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 14 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Server.php',
		'line' => (int) 98,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\MiddlewareQueue) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 15 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/webroot/index.php',
		'line' => (int) 39,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Server',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Server) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	]
]
$frame = [
	'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
	'line' => (int) 73,
	'function' => 'offsetGet',
	'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
	'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {
		trustProxy => false
		[protected] params => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] data => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] query => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] cookies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _environment => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] url => 'latest-news-updates/039unfortunate-that-punjab-is-facing-water-shortage039-4677081/print'
		[protected] base => ''
		[protected] webroot => '/'
		[protected] here => '/latest-news-updates/039unfortunate-that-punjab-is-facing-water-shortage039-4677081/print'
		[protected] trustedProxies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _input => null
		[protected] _detectors => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _detectorCache => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] stream => object(Zend\Diactoros\PhpInputStream) {}
		[protected] uri => object(Zend\Diactoros\Uri) {}
		[protected] session => object(Cake\Http\Session) {}
		[protected] attributes => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] emulatedAttributes => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] uploadedFiles => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] protocol => null
		[protected] requestTarget => null
		[private] deprecatedProperties => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	},
	'type' => '->',
	'args' => [
		(int) 0 => 'catslug'
	]
]
deprecationWarning - CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311
Cake\Http\ServerRequest::offsetGet() - CORE/src/Http/ServerRequest.php, line 2421
App\Controller\ArtileDetailController::printArticle() - APP/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line 73
Cake\Controller\Controller::invokeAction() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 610
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 120
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51
Cake\Http\Server::run() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 98

Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 74
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Code Context


        trigger_error($message, E_USER_DEPRECATED);

    }
$message = 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 74
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php.'
$stackFrame = (int) 1
$trace = [
	(int) 0 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ServerRequest.php',
		'line' => (int) 2421,
		'function' => 'deprecationWarning',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead.'
		]
	],
	(int) 1 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
		'line' => (int) 74,
		'function' => 'offsetGet',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'artileslug'
		]
	],
	(int) 2 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Controller/Controller.php',
		'line' => (int) 610,
		'function' => 'printArticle',
		'class' => 'App\Controller\ArtileDetailController',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 3 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 120,
		'function' => 'invokeAction',
		'class' => 'Cake\Controller\Controller',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 4 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 94,
		'function' => '_invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 5 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/BaseApplication.php',
		'line' => (int) 235,
		'function' => 'dispatch',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 6 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\BaseApplication',
		'object' => object(App\Application) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 7 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 162,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 8 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 9 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 88,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 10 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 11 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 96,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 12 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 13 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 51,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 14 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Server.php',
		'line' => (int) 98,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\MiddlewareQueue) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 15 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/webroot/index.php',
		'line' => (int) 39,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Server',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Server) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	]
]
$frame = [
	'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
	'line' => (int) 74,
	'function' => 'offsetGet',
	'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
	'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {
		trustProxy => false
		[protected] params => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] data => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] query => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] cookies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _environment => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] url => 'latest-news-updates/039unfortunate-that-punjab-is-facing-water-shortage039-4677081/print'
		[protected] base => ''
		[protected] webroot => '/'
		[protected] here => '/latest-news-updates/039unfortunate-that-punjab-is-facing-water-shortage039-4677081/print'
		[protected] trustedProxies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _input => null
		[protected] _detectors => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _detectorCache => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] stream => object(Zend\Diactoros\PhpInputStream) {}
		[protected] uri => object(Zend\Diactoros\Uri) {}
		[protected] session => object(Cake\Http\Session) {}
		[protected] attributes => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] emulatedAttributes => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] uploadedFiles => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] protocol => null
		[protected] requestTarget => null
		[private] deprecatedProperties => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	},
	'type' => '->',
	'args' => [
		(int) 0 => 'artileslug'
	]
]
deprecationWarning - CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311
Cake\Http\ServerRequest::offsetGet() - CORE/src/Http/ServerRequest.php, line 2421
App\Controller\ArtileDetailController::printArticle() - APP/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line 74
Cake\Controller\Controller::invokeAction() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 610
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 120
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51
Cake\Http\Server::run() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 98

Warning (512): Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853 [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48]
Code Context
            if (Configure::read('debug')) {

                trigger_error($message, E_USER_WARNING);

            } else {
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f9ab62ddb7b-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f9ab62ddb7b-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr67f9ab62ddb7b-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f9ab62ddb7b-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f9ab62ddb7b-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f9ab62ddb7b-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f9ab62ddb7b-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr67f9ab62ddb7b-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr67f9ab62ddb7b-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 29027,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;&amp;#039;Unfortunate that Punjab is facing water shortage&amp;#039;&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
-The Times of India
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;LUDHIANA: &lt;/em&gt;It is very unfortunate that a state like Punjab, which is known for its rivers, is facing shortage of water. &amp;quot;When I share this problem with the people of other states, they don&#039;t believe it and laugh it off. But in reality, conditions are becoming worse and there is a need to take immediate steps to improve the conditions,&amp;quot; Union minister for water resources Uma Bharti said here on Tuesday. She was speaking at the inauguration of two-day regional convention of the Water Users Associations (WUAs) at the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU).
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Experts at the convention shared various techniques to encourage water conservation for irrigation purposes and also urged farmers to use the water resources properly. Bharti said that there was a dire need to save Punjab from the crisis of depleting groundwater and for that people should come forward. She said there was also a need to encourage WUAs which should guide people for proper utilization of water resources.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Farmers and members of WUAs from Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand are taking part in the convention.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Speaking at inaugural function of the convention Bharati said, &amp;quot;Water revolution (kranti) is the need of the hour in order to move forward in a dynamic way. Welfare of the society is the responsibility of the government but public also owes equal responsibility.&amp;quot; She also urged the people to keep the Indian rivers and conserved water clean.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Punjab secretary (irrigation) K S Pannu said that a large section of people in the state were engaged in agriculture and most of them were unaware of water conservation techniques. He said that only 27% of the total area under agriculture in Punjab was fed by canal water and remaining was dependent on groundwater drawn using tubewells. Pannu said that they were working to raise the farm area fed by canal water to 37%, which would lower the rate of groundwater depletion in the state. He also hailed the Union government&#039;s &#039;Per Drop More Crop&#039; campaign.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
PAU registrar P S Khanna said that the farmers should also be apprised of crop diversification to save water and get higher yield using optimum irrigation.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Punjab irrigation minister Sharanjit Singh Dhillon urged the Union minister to approve the Sirhind feeder project, which was pending with the Centre and also handed over a memorandum containing demands of Punjab.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;What&#039;s WUA?&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Water Users Association (WUA) is a group of water users, who pool their financial, technical, material, and human resources for the operation and maintenance of a water system.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;PAU registrar mistaken for VC&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
There was some miscommunication and the Union minister Uma Bharti and other delegates, who came from other states, repeatedly referred to PAU registrar P S Khanna as the vice-chancellor of the varsity. VC B S Dhillon was also present during the event.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Times of India, 26 August, 2015, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ludhiana/Unfortunate-that-Punjab-is-facing-water-shortage/articleshow/48675380.cms&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;039unfortunate-that-punjab-is-facing-water-shortage039-4677081&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 4677081,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 29027,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | &amp;#039;Unfortunate that Punjab is facing water shortage&amp;#039;&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;Water Conservation,ground water depletion,ground water resources,Water  Shortage,Water Crisis,Water Scarcity&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;
-The Times of India





LUDHIANA: It is very unfortunate that a state like Punjab, which is known for its rivers, is facing shortage of water. &amp;quot;When I share this problem with the people of other states, they don&#039;t believe it and...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;-The Times of India&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;LUDHIANA: &lt;/em&gt;It is very unfortunate that a state like Punjab, which is known for its rivers, is facing shortage of water. &amp;quot;When I share this problem with the people of other states, they don&#039;t believe it and laugh it off. But in reality, conditions are becoming worse and there is a need to take immediate steps to improve the conditions,&amp;quot; Union minister for water resources Uma Bharti said here on Tuesday. She was speaking at the inauguration of two-day regional convention of the Water Users Associations (WUAs) at the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Experts at the convention shared various techniques to encourage water conservation for irrigation purposes and also urged farmers to use the water resources properly. Bharti said that there was a dire need to save Punjab from the crisis of depleting groundwater and for that people should come forward. She said there was also a need to encourage WUAs which should guide people for proper utilization of water resources.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Farmers and members of WUAs from Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand are taking part in the convention.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Speaking at inaugural function of the convention Bharati said, &amp;quot;Water revolution (kranti) is the need of the hour in order to move forward in a dynamic way. Welfare of the society is the responsibility of the government but public also owes equal responsibility.&amp;quot; She also urged the people to keep the Indian rivers and conserved water clean.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Punjab secretary (irrigation) K S Pannu said that a large section of people in the state were engaged in agriculture and most of them were unaware of water conservation techniques. He said that only 27% of the total area under agriculture in Punjab was fed by canal water and remaining was dependent on groundwater drawn using tubewells. Pannu said that they were working to raise the farm area fed by canal water to 37%, which would lower the rate of groundwater depletion in the state. He also hailed the Union government&#039;s &#039;Per Drop More Crop&#039; campaign.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;PAU registrar P S Khanna said that the farmers should also be apprised of crop diversification to save water and get higher yield using optimum irrigation.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Punjab irrigation minister Sharanjit Singh Dhillon urged the Union minister to approve the Sirhind feeder project, which was pending with the Centre and also handed over a memorandum containing demands of Punjab.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;What&#039;s WUA?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Water Users Association (WUA) is a group of water users, who pool their financial, technical, material, and human resources for the operation and maintenance of a water system.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;PAU registrar mistaken for VC&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;There was some miscommunication and the Union minister Uma Bharti and other delegates, who came from other states, repeatedly referred to PAU registrar P S Khanna as the vice-chancellor of the varsity. VC B S Dhillon was also present during the event.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 29027,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;&amp;#039;Unfortunate that Punjab is facing water shortage&amp;#039;&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
-The Times of India
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;LUDHIANA: &lt;/em&gt;It is very unfortunate that a state like Punjab, which is known for its rivers, is facing shortage of water. &amp;quot;When I share this problem with the people of other states, they don&#039;t believe it and laugh it off. But in reality, conditions are becoming worse and there is a need to take immediate steps to improve the conditions,&amp;quot; Union minister for water resources Uma Bharti said here on Tuesday. She was speaking at the inauguration of two-day regional convention of the Water Users Associations (WUAs) at the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU).
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Experts at the convention shared various techniques to encourage water conservation for irrigation purposes and also urged farmers to use the water resources properly. Bharti said that there was a dire need to save Punjab from the crisis of depleting groundwater and for that people should come forward. She said there was also a need to encourage WUAs which should guide people for proper utilization of water resources.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Farmers and members of WUAs from Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand are taking part in the convention.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Speaking at inaugural function of the convention Bharati said, &amp;quot;Water revolution (kranti) is the need of the hour in order to move forward in a dynamic way. Welfare of the society is the responsibility of the government but public also owes equal responsibility.&amp;quot; She also urged the people to keep the Indian rivers and conserved water clean.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Punjab secretary (irrigation) K S Pannu said that a large section of people in the state were engaged in agriculture and most of them were unaware of water conservation techniques. He said that only 27% of the total area under agriculture in Punjab was fed by canal water and remaining was dependent on groundwater drawn using tubewells. Pannu said that they were working to raise the farm area fed by canal water to 37%, which would lower the rate of groundwater depletion in the state. He also hailed the Union government&#039;s &#039;Per Drop More Crop&#039; campaign.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
PAU registrar P S Khanna said that the farmers should also be apprised of crop diversification to save water and get higher yield using optimum irrigation.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Punjab irrigation minister Sharanjit Singh Dhillon urged the Union minister to approve the Sirhind feeder project, which was pending with the Centre and also handed over a memorandum containing demands of Punjab.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;What&#039;s WUA?&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Water Users Association (WUA) is a group of water users, who pool their financial, technical, material, and human resources for the operation and maintenance of a water system.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;PAU registrar mistaken for VC&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
There was some miscommunication and the Union minister Uma Bharti and other delegates, who came from other states, repeatedly referred to PAU registrar P S Khanna as the vice-chancellor of the varsity. VC B S Dhillon was also present during the event.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Times of India, 26 August, 2015, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ludhiana/Unfortunate-that-Punjab-is-facing-water-shortage/articleshow/48675380.cms&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;039unfortunate-that-punjab-is-facing-water-shortage039-4677081&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 4677081,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 4 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 5 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 29027
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | &amp;#039;Unfortunate that Punjab is facing water shortage&amp;#039;&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;Water Conservation,ground water depletion,ground water resources,Water  Shortage,Water Crisis,Water Scarcity&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;
-The Times of India





LUDHIANA: It is very unfortunate that a state like Punjab, which is known for its rivers, is facing shortage of water. &amp;quot;When I share this problem with the people of other states, they don&#039;t believe it and...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;-The Times of India&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;LUDHIANA: &lt;/em&gt;It is very unfortunate that a state like Punjab, which is known for its rivers, is facing shortage of water. &amp;quot;When I share this problem with the people of other states, they don&#039;t believe it and laugh it off. But in reality, conditions are becoming worse and there is a need to take immediate steps to improve the conditions,&amp;quot; Union minister for water resources Uma Bharti said here on Tuesday. She was speaking at the inauguration of two-day regional convention of the Water Users Associations (WUAs) at the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Experts at the convention shared various techniques to encourage water conservation for irrigation purposes and also urged farmers to use the water resources properly. Bharti said that there was a dire need to save Punjab from the crisis of depleting groundwater and for that people should come forward. She said there was also a need to encourage WUAs which should guide people for proper utilization of water resources.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Farmers and members of WUAs from Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand are taking part in the convention.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Speaking at inaugural function of the convention Bharati said, &amp;quot;Water revolution (kranti) is the need of the hour in order to move forward in a dynamic way. Welfare of the society is the responsibility of the government but public also owes equal responsibility.&amp;quot; She also urged the people to keep the Indian rivers and conserved water clean.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Punjab secretary (irrigation) K S Pannu said that a large section of people in the state were engaged in agriculture and most of them were unaware of water conservation techniques. He said that only 27% of the total area under agriculture in Punjab was fed by canal water and remaining was dependent on groundwater drawn using tubewells. Pannu said that they were working to raise the farm area fed by canal water to 37%, which would lower the rate of groundwater depletion in the state. He also hailed the Union government&#039;s &#039;Per Drop More Crop&#039; campaign.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;PAU registrar P S Khanna said that the farmers should also be apprised of crop diversification to save water and get higher yield using optimum irrigation.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Punjab irrigation minister Sharanjit Singh Dhillon urged the Union minister to approve the Sirhind feeder project, which was pending with the Centre and also handed over a memorandum containing demands of Punjab.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;What&#039;s WUA?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Water Users Association (WUA) is a group of water users, who pool their financial, technical, material, and human resources for the operation and maintenance of a water system.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;PAU registrar mistaken for VC&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;There was some miscommunication and the Union minister Uma Bharti and other delegates, who came from other states, repeatedly referred to PAU registrar P S Khanna as the vice-chancellor of the varsity. VC B S Dhillon was also present during the event.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/039unfortunate-that-punjab-is-facing-water-shortage039-4677081.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | &#039;Unfortunate that Punjab is facing water shortage&#039; | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="
-The Times of India





LUDHIANA: It is very unfortunate that a state like Punjab, which is known for its rivers, is facing shortage of water. &quot;When I share this problem with the people of other states, they don't believe it and..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>&#039;Unfortunate that Punjab is facing water shortage&#039;</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <div style="text-align: justify">-The Times of India</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify"><em>LUDHIANA: </em>It is very unfortunate that a state like Punjab, which is known for its rivers, is facing shortage of water. &quot;When I share this problem with the people of other states, they don't believe it and laugh it off. But in reality, conditions are becoming worse and there is a need to take immediate steps to improve the conditions,&quot; Union minister for water resources Uma Bharti said here on Tuesday. She was speaking at the inauguration of two-day regional convention of the Water Users Associations (WUAs) at the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU).</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Experts at the convention shared various techniques to encourage water conservation for irrigation purposes and also urged farmers to use the water resources properly. Bharti said that there was a dire need to save Punjab from the crisis of depleting groundwater and for that people should come forward. She said there was also a need to encourage WUAs which should guide people for proper utilization of water resources.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Farmers and members of WUAs from Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand are taking part in the convention.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Speaking at inaugural function of the convention Bharati said, &quot;Water revolution (kranti) is the need of the hour in order to move forward in a dynamic way. Welfare of the society is the responsibility of the government but public also owes equal responsibility.&quot; She also urged the people to keep the Indian rivers and conserved water clean.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Punjab secretary (irrigation) K S Pannu said that a large section of people in the state were engaged in agriculture and most of them were unaware of water conservation techniques. He said that only 27% of the total area under agriculture in Punjab was fed by canal water and remaining was dependent on groundwater drawn using tubewells. Pannu said that they were working to raise the farm area fed by canal water to 37%, which would lower the rate of groundwater depletion in the state. He also hailed the Union government's 'Per Drop More Crop' campaign.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">PAU registrar P S Khanna said that the farmers should also be apprised of crop diversification to save water and get higher yield using optimum irrigation.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Punjab irrigation minister Sharanjit Singh Dhillon urged the Union minister to approve the Sirhind feeder project, which was pending with the Centre and also handed over a memorandum containing demands of Punjab.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify"><em>What's WUA?</em></div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Water Users Association (WUA) is a group of water users, who pool their financial, technical, material, and human resources for the operation and maintenance of a water system.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify"><em>PAU registrar mistaken for VC</em></div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">There was some miscommunication and the Union minister Uma Bharti and other delegates, who came from other states, repeatedly referred to PAU registrar P S Khanna as the vice-chancellor of the varsity. VC B S Dhillon was also present during the event.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$maxBufferLength = (int) 8192
$file = '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php'
$line = (int) 853
$message = 'Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853'
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148]
Code Context
            $response->getStatusCode(),

            ($reasonPhrase ? ' ' . $reasonPhrase : '')

        ));
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f9ab62ddb7b-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f9ab62ddb7b-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr67f9ab62ddb7b-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f9ab62ddb7b-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f9ab62ddb7b-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f9ab62ddb7b-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f9ab62ddb7b-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr67f9ab62ddb7b-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr67f9ab62ddb7b-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 29027,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;&amp;#039;Unfortunate that Punjab is facing water shortage&amp;#039;&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
-The Times of India
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;LUDHIANA: &lt;/em&gt;It is very unfortunate that a state like Punjab, which is known for its rivers, is facing shortage of water. &amp;quot;When I share this problem with the people of other states, they don&#039;t believe it and laugh it off. But in reality, conditions are becoming worse and there is a need to take immediate steps to improve the conditions,&amp;quot; Union minister for water resources Uma Bharti said here on Tuesday. She was speaking at the inauguration of two-day regional convention of the Water Users Associations (WUAs) at the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU).
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Experts at the convention shared various techniques to encourage water conservation for irrigation purposes and also urged farmers to use the water resources properly. Bharti said that there was a dire need to save Punjab from the crisis of depleting groundwater and for that people should come forward. She said there was also a need to encourage WUAs which should guide people for proper utilization of water resources.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Farmers and members of WUAs from Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand are taking part in the convention.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Speaking at inaugural function of the convention Bharati said, &amp;quot;Water revolution (kranti) is the need of the hour in order to move forward in a dynamic way. Welfare of the society is the responsibility of the government but public also owes equal responsibility.&amp;quot; She also urged the people to keep the Indian rivers and conserved water clean.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Punjab secretary (irrigation) K S Pannu said that a large section of people in the state were engaged in agriculture and most of them were unaware of water conservation techniques. He said that only 27% of the total area under agriculture in Punjab was fed by canal water and remaining was dependent on groundwater drawn using tubewells. Pannu said that they were working to raise the farm area fed by canal water to 37%, which would lower the rate of groundwater depletion in the state. He also hailed the Union government&#039;s &#039;Per Drop More Crop&#039; campaign.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
PAU registrar P S Khanna said that the farmers should also be apprised of crop diversification to save water and get higher yield using optimum irrigation.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Punjab irrigation minister Sharanjit Singh Dhillon urged the Union minister to approve the Sirhind feeder project, which was pending with the Centre and also handed over a memorandum containing demands of Punjab.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;What&#039;s WUA?&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Water Users Association (WUA) is a group of water users, who pool their financial, technical, material, and human resources for the operation and maintenance of a water system.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;PAU registrar mistaken for VC&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
There was some miscommunication and the Union minister Uma Bharti and other delegates, who came from other states, repeatedly referred to PAU registrar P S Khanna as the vice-chancellor of the varsity. VC B S Dhillon was also present during the event.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Times of India, 26 August, 2015, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ludhiana/Unfortunate-that-Punjab-is-facing-water-shortage/articleshow/48675380.cms&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;039unfortunate-that-punjab-is-facing-water-shortage039-4677081&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 4677081,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 29027,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | &amp;#039;Unfortunate that Punjab is facing water shortage&amp;#039;&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;Water Conservation,ground water depletion,ground water resources,Water  Shortage,Water Crisis,Water Scarcity&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;
-The Times of India





LUDHIANA: It is very unfortunate that a state like Punjab, which is known for its rivers, is facing shortage of water. &amp;quot;When I share this problem with the people of other states, they don&#039;t believe it and...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;-The Times of India&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;LUDHIANA: &lt;/em&gt;It is very unfortunate that a state like Punjab, which is known for its rivers, is facing shortage of water. &amp;quot;When I share this problem with the people of other states, they don&#039;t believe it and laugh it off. But in reality, conditions are becoming worse and there is a need to take immediate steps to improve the conditions,&amp;quot; Union minister for water resources Uma Bharti said here on Tuesday. She was speaking at the inauguration of two-day regional convention of the Water Users Associations (WUAs) at the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Experts at the convention shared various techniques to encourage water conservation for irrigation purposes and also urged farmers to use the water resources properly. Bharti said that there was a dire need to save Punjab from the crisis of depleting groundwater and for that people should come forward. She said there was also a need to encourage WUAs which should guide people for proper utilization of water resources.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Farmers and members of WUAs from Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand are taking part in the convention.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Speaking at inaugural function of the convention Bharati said, &amp;quot;Water revolution (kranti) is the need of the hour in order to move forward in a dynamic way. Welfare of the society is the responsibility of the government but public also owes equal responsibility.&amp;quot; She also urged the people to keep the Indian rivers and conserved water clean.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Punjab secretary (irrigation) K S Pannu said that a large section of people in the state were engaged in agriculture and most of them were unaware of water conservation techniques. He said that only 27% of the total area under agriculture in Punjab was fed by canal water and remaining was dependent on groundwater drawn using tubewells. Pannu said that they were working to raise the farm area fed by canal water to 37%, which would lower the rate of groundwater depletion in the state. He also hailed the Union government&#039;s &#039;Per Drop More Crop&#039; campaign.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;PAU registrar P S Khanna said that the farmers should also be apprised of crop diversification to save water and get higher yield using optimum irrigation.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Punjab irrigation minister Sharanjit Singh Dhillon urged the Union minister to approve the Sirhind feeder project, which was pending with the Centre and also handed over a memorandum containing demands of Punjab.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;What&#039;s WUA?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Water Users Association (WUA) is a group of water users, who pool their financial, technical, material, and human resources for the operation and maintenance of a water system.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;PAU registrar mistaken for VC&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;There was some miscommunication and the Union minister Uma Bharti and other delegates, who came from other states, repeatedly referred to PAU registrar P S Khanna as the vice-chancellor of the varsity. VC B S Dhillon was also present during the event.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 29027,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;&amp;#039;Unfortunate that Punjab is facing water shortage&amp;#039;&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
-The Times of India
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;LUDHIANA: &lt;/em&gt;It is very unfortunate that a state like Punjab, which is known for its rivers, is facing shortage of water. &amp;quot;When I share this problem with the people of other states, they don&#039;t believe it and laugh it off. But in reality, conditions are becoming worse and there is a need to take immediate steps to improve the conditions,&amp;quot; Union minister for water resources Uma Bharti said here on Tuesday. She was speaking at the inauguration of two-day regional convention of the Water Users Associations (WUAs) at the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU).
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Experts at the convention shared various techniques to encourage water conservation for irrigation purposes and also urged farmers to use the water resources properly. Bharti said that there was a dire need to save Punjab from the crisis of depleting groundwater and for that people should come forward. She said there was also a need to encourage WUAs which should guide people for proper utilization of water resources.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Farmers and members of WUAs from Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand are taking part in the convention.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Speaking at inaugural function of the convention Bharati said, &amp;quot;Water revolution (kranti) is the need of the hour in order to move forward in a dynamic way. Welfare of the society is the responsibility of the government but public also owes equal responsibility.&amp;quot; She also urged the people to keep the Indian rivers and conserved water clean.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Punjab secretary (irrigation) K S Pannu said that a large section of people in the state were engaged in agriculture and most of them were unaware of water conservation techniques. He said that only 27% of the total area under agriculture in Punjab was fed by canal water and remaining was dependent on groundwater drawn using tubewells. Pannu said that they were working to raise the farm area fed by canal water to 37%, which would lower the rate of groundwater depletion in the state. He also hailed the Union government&#039;s &#039;Per Drop More Crop&#039; campaign.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
PAU registrar P S Khanna said that the farmers should also be apprised of crop diversification to save water and get higher yield using optimum irrigation.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Punjab irrigation minister Sharanjit Singh Dhillon urged the Union minister to approve the Sirhind feeder project, which was pending with the Centre and also handed over a memorandum containing demands of Punjab.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;What&#039;s WUA?&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Water Users Association (WUA) is a group of water users, who pool their financial, technical, material, and human resources for the operation and maintenance of a water system.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;PAU registrar mistaken for VC&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
There was some miscommunication and the Union minister Uma Bharti and other delegates, who came from other states, repeatedly referred to PAU registrar P S Khanna as the vice-chancellor of the varsity. VC B S Dhillon was also present during the event.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Times of India, 26 August, 2015, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ludhiana/Unfortunate-that-Punjab-is-facing-water-shortage/articleshow/48675380.cms&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;039unfortunate-that-punjab-is-facing-water-shortage039-4677081&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 4677081,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 4 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 5 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 29027
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | &amp;#039;Unfortunate that Punjab is facing water shortage&amp;#039;&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;Water Conservation,ground water depletion,ground water resources,Water  Shortage,Water Crisis,Water Scarcity&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;
-The Times of India





LUDHIANA: It is very unfortunate that a state like Punjab, which is known for its rivers, is facing shortage of water. &amp;quot;When I share this problem with the people of other states, they don&#039;t believe it and...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;-The Times of India&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;LUDHIANA: &lt;/em&gt;It is very unfortunate that a state like Punjab, which is known for its rivers, is facing shortage of water. &amp;quot;When I share this problem with the people of other states, they don&#039;t believe it and laugh it off. But in reality, conditions are becoming worse and there is a need to take immediate steps to improve the conditions,&amp;quot; Union minister for water resources Uma Bharti said here on Tuesday. She was speaking at the inauguration of two-day regional convention of the Water Users Associations (WUAs) at the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Experts at the convention shared various techniques to encourage water conservation for irrigation purposes and also urged farmers to use the water resources properly. Bharti said that there was a dire need to save Punjab from the crisis of depleting groundwater and for that people should come forward. She said there was also a need to encourage WUAs which should guide people for proper utilization of water resources.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Farmers and members of WUAs from Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand are taking part in the convention.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Speaking at inaugural function of the convention Bharati said, &amp;quot;Water revolution (kranti) is the need of the hour in order to move forward in a dynamic way. Welfare of the society is the responsibility of the government but public also owes equal responsibility.&amp;quot; She also urged the people to keep the Indian rivers and conserved water clean.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Punjab secretary (irrigation) K S Pannu said that a large section of people in the state were engaged in agriculture and most of them were unaware of water conservation techniques. He said that only 27% of the total area under agriculture in Punjab was fed by canal water and remaining was dependent on groundwater drawn using tubewells. Pannu said that they were working to raise the farm area fed by canal water to 37%, which would lower the rate of groundwater depletion in the state. He also hailed the Union government&#039;s &#039;Per Drop More Crop&#039; campaign.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;PAU registrar P S Khanna said that the farmers should also be apprised of crop diversification to save water and get higher yield using optimum irrigation.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Punjab irrigation minister Sharanjit Singh Dhillon urged the Union minister to approve the Sirhind feeder project, which was pending with the Centre and also handed over a memorandum containing demands of Punjab.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;What&#039;s WUA?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Water Users Association (WUA) is a group of water users, who pool their financial, technical, material, and human resources for the operation and maintenance of a water system.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;PAU registrar mistaken for VC&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;There was some miscommunication and the Union minister Uma Bharti and other delegates, who came from other states, repeatedly referred to PAU registrar P S Khanna as the vice-chancellor of the varsity. VC B S Dhillon was also present during the event.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/039unfortunate-that-punjab-is-facing-water-shortage039-4677081.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | &#039;Unfortunate that Punjab is facing water shortage&#039; | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="
-The Times of India





LUDHIANA: It is very unfortunate that a state like Punjab, which is known for its rivers, is facing shortage of water. &quot;When I share this problem with the people of other states, they don't believe it and..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>&#039;Unfortunate that Punjab is facing water shortage&#039;</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <div style="text-align: justify">-The Times of India</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify"><em>LUDHIANA: </em>It is very unfortunate that a state like Punjab, which is known for its rivers, is facing shortage of water. &quot;When I share this problem with the people of other states, they don't believe it and laugh it off. But in reality, conditions are becoming worse and there is a need to take immediate steps to improve the conditions,&quot; Union minister for water resources Uma Bharti said here on Tuesday. She was speaking at the inauguration of two-day regional convention of the Water Users Associations (WUAs) at the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU).</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Experts at the convention shared various techniques to encourage water conservation for irrigation purposes and also urged farmers to use the water resources properly. Bharti said that there was a dire need to save Punjab from the crisis of depleting groundwater and for that people should come forward. She said there was also a need to encourage WUAs which should guide people for proper utilization of water resources.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Farmers and members of WUAs from Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand are taking part in the convention.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Speaking at inaugural function of the convention Bharati said, &quot;Water revolution (kranti) is the need of the hour in order to move forward in a dynamic way. Welfare of the society is the responsibility of the government but public also owes equal responsibility.&quot; She also urged the people to keep the Indian rivers and conserved water clean.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Punjab secretary (irrigation) K S Pannu said that a large section of people in the state were engaged in agriculture and most of them were unaware of water conservation techniques. He said that only 27% of the total area under agriculture in Punjab was fed by canal water and remaining was dependent on groundwater drawn using tubewells. Pannu said that they were working to raise the farm area fed by canal water to 37%, which would lower the rate of groundwater depletion in the state. He also hailed the Union government's 'Per Drop More Crop' campaign.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">PAU registrar P S Khanna said that the farmers should also be apprised of crop diversification to save water and get higher yield using optimum irrigation.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Punjab irrigation minister Sharanjit Singh Dhillon urged the Union minister to approve the Sirhind feeder project, which was pending with the Centre and also handed over a memorandum containing demands of Punjab.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify"><em>What's WUA?</em></div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Water Users Association (WUA) is a group of water users, who pool their financial, technical, material, and human resources for the operation and maintenance of a water system.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify"><em>PAU registrar mistaken for VC</em></div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">There was some miscommunication and the Union minister Uma Bharti and other delegates, who came from other states, repeatedly referred to PAU registrar P S Khanna as the vice-chancellor of the varsity. VC B S Dhillon was also present during the event.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$reasonPhrase = 'OK'
header - [internal], line ??
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emitStatusLine() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 54
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181]
Code Context
                    $value

                ), $first);

                $first = false;
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f9ab62ddb7b-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f9ab62ddb7b-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr67f9ab62ddb7b-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f9ab62ddb7b-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f9ab62ddb7b-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f9ab62ddb7b-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f9ab62ddb7b-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr67f9ab62ddb7b-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr67f9ab62ddb7b-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 29027,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;&amp;#039;Unfortunate that Punjab is facing water shortage&amp;#039;&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
-The Times of India
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;LUDHIANA: &lt;/em&gt;It is very unfortunate that a state like Punjab, which is known for its rivers, is facing shortage of water. &amp;quot;When I share this problem with the people of other states, they don&#039;t believe it and laugh it off. But in reality, conditions are becoming worse and there is a need to take immediate steps to improve the conditions,&amp;quot; Union minister for water resources Uma Bharti said here on Tuesday. She was speaking at the inauguration of two-day regional convention of the Water Users Associations (WUAs) at the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU).
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Experts at the convention shared various techniques to encourage water conservation for irrigation purposes and also urged farmers to use the water resources properly. Bharti said that there was a dire need to save Punjab from the crisis of depleting groundwater and for that people should come forward. She said there was also a need to encourage WUAs which should guide people for proper utilization of water resources.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Farmers and members of WUAs from Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand are taking part in the convention.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Speaking at inaugural function of the convention Bharati said, &amp;quot;Water revolution (kranti) is the need of the hour in order to move forward in a dynamic way. Welfare of the society is the responsibility of the government but public also owes equal responsibility.&amp;quot; She also urged the people to keep the Indian rivers and conserved water clean.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Punjab secretary (irrigation) K S Pannu said that a large section of people in the state were engaged in agriculture and most of them were unaware of water conservation techniques. He said that only 27% of the total area under agriculture in Punjab was fed by canal water and remaining was dependent on groundwater drawn using tubewells. Pannu said that they were working to raise the farm area fed by canal water to 37%, which would lower the rate of groundwater depletion in the state. He also hailed the Union government&#039;s &#039;Per Drop More Crop&#039; campaign.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
PAU registrar P S Khanna said that the farmers should also be apprised of crop diversification to save water and get higher yield using optimum irrigation.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Punjab irrigation minister Sharanjit Singh Dhillon urged the Union minister to approve the Sirhind feeder project, which was pending with the Centre and also handed over a memorandum containing demands of Punjab.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;What&#039;s WUA?&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Water Users Association (WUA) is a group of water users, who pool their financial, technical, material, and human resources for the operation and maintenance of a water system.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;PAU registrar mistaken for VC&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
There was some miscommunication and the Union minister Uma Bharti and other delegates, who came from other states, repeatedly referred to PAU registrar P S Khanna as the vice-chancellor of the varsity. VC B S Dhillon was also present during the event.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Times of India, 26 August, 2015, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ludhiana/Unfortunate-that-Punjab-is-facing-water-shortage/articleshow/48675380.cms&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;039unfortunate-that-punjab-is-facing-water-shortage039-4677081&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 4677081,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 29027,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | &amp;#039;Unfortunate that Punjab is facing water shortage&amp;#039;&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;Water Conservation,ground water depletion,ground water resources,Water  Shortage,Water Crisis,Water Scarcity&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;
-The Times of India





LUDHIANA: It is very unfortunate that a state like Punjab, which is known for its rivers, is facing shortage of water. &amp;quot;When I share this problem with the people of other states, they don&#039;t believe it and...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;-The Times of India&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;LUDHIANA: &lt;/em&gt;It is very unfortunate that a state like Punjab, which is known for its rivers, is facing shortage of water. &amp;quot;When I share this problem with the people of other states, they don&#039;t believe it and laugh it off. But in reality, conditions are becoming worse and there is a need to take immediate steps to improve the conditions,&amp;quot; Union minister for water resources Uma Bharti said here on Tuesday. She was speaking at the inauguration of two-day regional convention of the Water Users Associations (WUAs) at the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Experts at the convention shared various techniques to encourage water conservation for irrigation purposes and also urged farmers to use the water resources properly. Bharti said that there was a dire need to save Punjab from the crisis of depleting groundwater and for that people should come forward. She said there was also a need to encourage WUAs which should guide people for proper utilization of water resources.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Farmers and members of WUAs from Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand are taking part in the convention.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Speaking at inaugural function of the convention Bharati said, &amp;quot;Water revolution (kranti) is the need of the hour in order to move forward in a dynamic way. Welfare of the society is the responsibility of the government but public also owes equal responsibility.&amp;quot; She also urged the people to keep the Indian rivers and conserved water clean.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Punjab secretary (irrigation) K S Pannu said that a large section of people in the state were engaged in agriculture and most of them were unaware of water conservation techniques. He said that only 27% of the total area under agriculture in Punjab was fed by canal water and remaining was dependent on groundwater drawn using tubewells. Pannu said that they were working to raise the farm area fed by canal water to 37%, which would lower the rate of groundwater depletion in the state. He also hailed the Union government&#039;s &#039;Per Drop More Crop&#039; campaign.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;PAU registrar P S Khanna said that the farmers should also be apprised of crop diversification to save water and get higher yield using optimum irrigation.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Punjab irrigation minister Sharanjit Singh Dhillon urged the Union minister to approve the Sirhind feeder project, which was pending with the Centre and also handed over a memorandum containing demands of Punjab.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;What&#039;s WUA?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Water Users Association (WUA) is a group of water users, who pool their financial, technical, material, and human resources for the operation and maintenance of a water system.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;PAU registrar mistaken for VC&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;There was some miscommunication and the Union minister Uma Bharti and other delegates, who came from other states, repeatedly referred to PAU registrar P S Khanna as the vice-chancellor of the varsity. VC B S Dhillon was also present during the event.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 29027,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;&amp;#039;Unfortunate that Punjab is facing water shortage&amp;#039;&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
-The Times of India
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;LUDHIANA: &lt;/em&gt;It is very unfortunate that a state like Punjab, which is known for its rivers, is facing shortage of water. &amp;quot;When I share this problem with the people of other states, they don&#039;t believe it and laugh it off. But in reality, conditions are becoming worse and there is a need to take immediate steps to improve the conditions,&amp;quot; Union minister for water resources Uma Bharti said here on Tuesday. She was speaking at the inauguration of two-day regional convention of the Water Users Associations (WUAs) at the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU).
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Experts at the convention shared various techniques to encourage water conservation for irrigation purposes and also urged farmers to use the water resources properly. Bharti said that there was a dire need to save Punjab from the crisis of depleting groundwater and for that people should come forward. She said there was also a need to encourage WUAs which should guide people for proper utilization of water resources.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Farmers and members of WUAs from Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand are taking part in the convention.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Speaking at inaugural function of the convention Bharati said, &amp;quot;Water revolution (kranti) is the need of the hour in order to move forward in a dynamic way. Welfare of the society is the responsibility of the government but public also owes equal responsibility.&amp;quot; She also urged the people to keep the Indian rivers and conserved water clean.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Punjab secretary (irrigation) K S Pannu said that a large section of people in the state were engaged in agriculture and most of them were unaware of water conservation techniques. He said that only 27% of the total area under agriculture in Punjab was fed by canal water and remaining was dependent on groundwater drawn using tubewells. Pannu said that they were working to raise the farm area fed by canal water to 37%, which would lower the rate of groundwater depletion in the state. He also hailed the Union government&#039;s &#039;Per Drop More Crop&#039; campaign.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
PAU registrar P S Khanna said that the farmers should also be apprised of crop diversification to save water and get higher yield using optimum irrigation.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Punjab irrigation minister Sharanjit Singh Dhillon urged the Union minister to approve the Sirhind feeder project, which was pending with the Centre and also handed over a memorandum containing demands of Punjab.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;What&#039;s WUA?&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Water Users Association (WUA) is a group of water users, who pool their financial, technical, material, and human resources for the operation and maintenance of a water system.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;PAU registrar mistaken for VC&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
There was some miscommunication and the Union minister Uma Bharti and other delegates, who came from other states, repeatedly referred to PAU registrar P S Khanna as the vice-chancellor of the varsity. VC B S Dhillon was also present during the event.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Times of India, 26 August, 2015, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ludhiana/Unfortunate-that-Punjab-is-facing-water-shortage/articleshow/48675380.cms&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;039unfortunate-that-punjab-is-facing-water-shortage039-4677081&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 4677081,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 4 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 5 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 29027
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | &amp;#039;Unfortunate that Punjab is facing water shortage&amp;#039;&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;Water Conservation,ground water depletion,ground water resources,Water  Shortage,Water Crisis,Water Scarcity&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;
-The Times of India





LUDHIANA: It is very unfortunate that a state like Punjab, which is known for its rivers, is facing shortage of water. &amp;quot;When I share this problem with the people of other states, they don&#039;t believe it and...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;-The Times of India&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;LUDHIANA: &lt;/em&gt;It is very unfortunate that a state like Punjab, which is known for its rivers, is facing shortage of water. &amp;quot;When I share this problem with the people of other states, they don&#039;t believe it and laugh it off. But in reality, conditions are becoming worse and there is a need to take immediate steps to improve the conditions,&amp;quot; Union minister for water resources Uma Bharti said here on Tuesday. She was speaking at the inauguration of two-day regional convention of the Water Users Associations (WUAs) at the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Experts at the convention shared various techniques to encourage water conservation for irrigation purposes and also urged farmers to use the water resources properly. Bharti said that there was a dire need to save Punjab from the crisis of depleting groundwater and for that people should come forward. She said there was also a need to encourage WUAs which should guide people for proper utilization of water resources.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Farmers and members of WUAs from Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand are taking part in the convention.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Speaking at inaugural function of the convention Bharati said, &amp;quot;Water revolution (kranti) is the need of the hour in order to move forward in a dynamic way. Welfare of the society is the responsibility of the government but public also owes equal responsibility.&amp;quot; She also urged the people to keep the Indian rivers and conserved water clean.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Punjab secretary (irrigation) K S Pannu said that a large section of people in the state were engaged in agriculture and most of them were unaware of water conservation techniques. He said that only 27% of the total area under agriculture in Punjab was fed by canal water and remaining was dependent on groundwater drawn using tubewells. Pannu said that they were working to raise the farm area fed by canal water to 37%, which would lower the rate of groundwater depletion in the state. He also hailed the Union government&#039;s &#039;Per Drop More Crop&#039; campaign.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;PAU registrar P S Khanna said that the farmers should also be apprised of crop diversification to save water and get higher yield using optimum irrigation.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Punjab irrigation minister Sharanjit Singh Dhillon urged the Union minister to approve the Sirhind feeder project, which was pending with the Centre and also handed over a memorandum containing demands of Punjab.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;What&#039;s WUA?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Water Users Association (WUA) is a group of water users, who pool their financial, technical, material, and human resources for the operation and maintenance of a water system.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;PAU registrar mistaken for VC&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;There was some miscommunication and the Union minister Uma Bharti and other delegates, who came from other states, repeatedly referred to PAU registrar P S Khanna as the vice-chancellor of the varsity. VC B S Dhillon was also present during the event.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/039unfortunate-that-punjab-is-facing-water-shortage039-4677081.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | &#039;Unfortunate that Punjab is facing water shortage&#039; | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="
-The Times of India





LUDHIANA: It is very unfortunate that a state like Punjab, which is known for its rivers, is facing shortage of water. &quot;When I share this problem with the people of other states, they don't believe it and..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>&#039;Unfortunate that Punjab is facing water shortage&#039;</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <div style="text-align: justify">-The Times of India</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify"><em>LUDHIANA: </em>It is very unfortunate that a state like Punjab, which is known for its rivers, is facing shortage of water. &quot;When I share this problem with the people of other states, they don't believe it and laugh it off. But in reality, conditions are becoming worse and there is a need to take immediate steps to improve the conditions,&quot; Union minister for water resources Uma Bharti said here on Tuesday. She was speaking at the inauguration of two-day regional convention of the Water Users Associations (WUAs) at the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU).</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Experts at the convention shared various techniques to encourage water conservation for irrigation purposes and also urged farmers to use the water resources properly. Bharti said that there was a dire need to save Punjab from the crisis of depleting groundwater and for that people should come forward. She said there was also a need to encourage WUAs which should guide people for proper utilization of water resources.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Farmers and members of WUAs from Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand are taking part in the convention.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Speaking at inaugural function of the convention Bharati said, &quot;Water revolution (kranti) is the need of the hour in order to move forward in a dynamic way. Welfare of the society is the responsibility of the government but public also owes equal responsibility.&quot; She also urged the people to keep the Indian rivers and conserved water clean.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Punjab secretary (irrigation) K S Pannu said that a large section of people in the state were engaged in agriculture and most of them were unaware of water conservation techniques. He said that only 27% of the total area under agriculture in Punjab was fed by canal water and remaining was dependent on groundwater drawn using tubewells. Pannu said that they were working to raise the farm area fed by canal water to 37%, which would lower the rate of groundwater depletion in the state. He also hailed the Union government's 'Per Drop More Crop' campaign.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">PAU registrar P S Khanna said that the farmers should also be apprised of crop diversification to save water and get higher yield using optimum irrigation.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Punjab irrigation minister Sharanjit Singh Dhillon urged the Union minister to approve the Sirhind feeder project, which was pending with the Centre and also handed over a memorandum containing demands of Punjab.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify"><em>What's WUA?</em></div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Water Users Association (WUA) is a group of water users, who pool their financial, technical, material, and human resources for the operation and maintenance of a water system.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify"><em>PAU registrar mistaken for VC</em></div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">There was some miscommunication and the Union minister Uma Bharti and other delegates, who came from other states, repeatedly referred to PAU registrar P S Khanna as the vice-chancellor of the varsity. VC B S Dhillon was also present during the event.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$cookies = []
$values = [
	(int) 0 => 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
]
$name = 'Content-Type'
$first = true
$value = 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
header - [internal], line ??
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emitHeaders() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 55
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

<head>

    <link rel="canonical" href="<?php echo Configure::read('SITE_URL'); ?><?php echo $urlPrefix;?><?php echo $article_current->category->slug; ?>/<?php echo $article_current->seo_url; ?>.html"/>

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>

$viewFile = '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp'
$dataForView = [
	'article_current' => object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		'id' => (int) 29027,
		'title' => ''Unfortunate that Punjab is facing water shortage'',
		'subheading' => '',
		'description' => '<div style="text-align: justify">
-The Times of India
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<em>LUDHIANA: </em>It is very unfortunate that a state like Punjab, which is known for its rivers, is facing shortage of water. &quot;When I share this problem with the people of other states, they don't believe it and laugh it off. But in reality, conditions are becoming worse and there is a need to take immediate steps to improve the conditions,&quot; Union minister for water resources Uma Bharti said here on Tuesday. She was speaking at the inauguration of two-day regional convention of the Water Users Associations (WUAs) at the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU).
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
Experts at the convention shared various techniques to encourage water conservation for irrigation purposes and also urged farmers to use the water resources properly. Bharti said that there was a dire need to save Punjab from the crisis of depleting groundwater and for that people should come forward. She said there was also a need to encourage WUAs which should guide people for proper utilization of water resources.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
Farmers and members of WUAs from Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand are taking part in the convention.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
Speaking at inaugural function of the convention Bharati said, &quot;Water revolution (kranti) is the need of the hour in order to move forward in a dynamic way. Welfare of the society is the responsibility of the government but public also owes equal responsibility.&quot; She also urged the people to keep the Indian rivers and conserved water clean.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
Punjab secretary (irrigation) K S Pannu said that a large section of people in the state were engaged in agriculture and most of them were unaware of water conservation techniques. He said that only 27% of the total area under agriculture in Punjab was fed by canal water and remaining was dependent on groundwater drawn using tubewells. Pannu said that they were working to raise the farm area fed by canal water to 37%, which would lower the rate of groundwater depletion in the state. He also hailed the Union government's 'Per Drop More Crop' campaign.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
PAU registrar P S Khanna said that the farmers should also be apprised of crop diversification to save water and get higher yield using optimum irrigation.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
Punjab irrigation minister Sharanjit Singh Dhillon urged the Union minister to approve the Sirhind feeder project, which was pending with the Centre and also handed over a memorandum containing demands of Punjab.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<em>What's WUA?</em>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
Water Users Association (WUA) is a group of water users, who pool their financial, technical, material, and human resources for the operation and maintenance of a water system.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<em>PAU registrar mistaken for VC</em>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
There was some miscommunication and the Union minister Uma Bharti and other delegates, who came from other states, repeatedly referred to PAU registrar P S Khanna as the vice-chancellor of the varsity. VC B S Dhillon was also present during the event.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>',
		'credit_writer' => 'The Times of India, 26 August, 2015, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ludhiana/Unfortunate-that-Punjab-is-facing-water-shortage/articleshow/48675380.cms',
		'article_img' => '',
		'article_img_thumb' => '',
		'status' => (int) 1,
		'show_on_home' => (int) 1,
		'lang' => 'EN',
		'category_id' => (int) 16,
		'tag_keyword' => '',
		'seo_url' => '039unfortunate-that-punjab-is-facing-water-shortage039-4677081',
		'meta_title' => null,
		'meta_keywords' => null,
		'meta_description' => null,
		'noindex' => (int) 0,
		'publish_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		'most_visit_section_id' => null,
		'article_big_img' => null,
		'liveid' => (int) 4677081,
		'created' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		'modified' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		'edate' => '',
		'tags' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		'category' => object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		'[new]' => false,
		'[accessible]' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		'[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[hasErrors]' => false,
		'[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[repository]' => 'Articles'
	
	},
	'articleid' => (int) 29027,
	'metaTitle' => 'LATEST NEWS UPDATES | &#039;Unfortunate that Punjab is facing water shortage&#039;',
	'metaKeywords' => 'Water Conservation,ground water depletion,ground water resources,Water  Shortage,Water Crisis,Water Scarcity',
	'metaDesc' => '
-The Times of India





LUDHIANA: It is very unfortunate that a state like Punjab, which is known for its rivers, is facing shortage of water. &quot;When I share this problem with the people of other states, they don't believe it and...',
	'disp' => '<div style="text-align: justify">-The Times of India</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify"><em>LUDHIANA: </em>It is very unfortunate that a state like Punjab, which is known for its rivers, is facing shortage of water. &quot;When I share this problem with the people of other states, they don't believe it and laugh it off. But in reality, conditions are becoming worse and there is a need to take immediate steps to improve the conditions,&quot; Union minister for water resources Uma Bharti said here on Tuesday. She was speaking at the inauguration of two-day regional convention of the Water Users Associations (WUAs) at the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU).</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Experts at the convention shared various techniques to encourage water conservation for irrigation purposes and also urged farmers to use the water resources properly. Bharti said that there was a dire need to save Punjab from the crisis of depleting groundwater and for that people should come forward. She said there was also a need to encourage WUAs which should guide people for proper utilization of water resources.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Farmers and members of WUAs from Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand are taking part in the convention.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Speaking at inaugural function of the convention Bharati said, &quot;Water revolution (kranti) is the need of the hour in order to move forward in a dynamic way. Welfare of the society is the responsibility of the government but public also owes equal responsibility.&quot; She also urged the people to keep the Indian rivers and conserved water clean.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Punjab secretary (irrigation) K S Pannu said that a large section of people in the state were engaged in agriculture and most of them were unaware of water conservation techniques. He said that only 27% of the total area under agriculture in Punjab was fed by canal water and remaining was dependent on groundwater drawn using tubewells. Pannu said that they were working to raise the farm area fed by canal water to 37%, which would lower the rate of groundwater depletion in the state. He also hailed the Union government's 'Per Drop More Crop' campaign.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">PAU registrar P S Khanna said that the farmers should also be apprised of crop diversification to save water and get higher yield using optimum irrigation.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Punjab irrigation minister Sharanjit Singh Dhillon urged the Union minister to approve the Sirhind feeder project, which was pending with the Centre and also handed over a memorandum containing demands of Punjab.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify"><em>What's WUA?</em></div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Water Users Association (WUA) is a group of water users, who pool their financial, technical, material, and human resources for the operation and maintenance of a water system.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify"><em>PAU registrar mistaken for VC</em></div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">There was some miscommunication and the Union minister Uma Bharti and other delegates, who came from other states, repeatedly referred to PAU registrar P S Khanna as the vice-chancellor of the varsity. VC B S Dhillon was also present during the event.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div>',
	'lang' => 'English',
	'SITE_URL' => 'https://im4change.in/',
	'site_title' => 'im4change',
	'adminprix' => 'admin'
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	'id' => (int) 29027,
	'title' => '&#039;Unfortunate that Punjab is facing water shortage&#039;',
	'subheading' => '',
	'description' => '<div style="text-align: justify">
-The Times of India
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<em>LUDHIANA: </em>It is very unfortunate that a state like Punjab, which is known for its rivers, is facing shortage of water. &quot;When I share this problem with the people of other states, they don't believe it and laugh it off. But in reality, conditions are becoming worse and there is a need to take immediate steps to improve the conditions,&quot; Union minister for water resources Uma Bharti said here on Tuesday. She was speaking at the inauguration of two-day regional convention of the Water Users Associations (WUAs) at the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU).
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
Experts at the convention shared various techniques to encourage water conservation for irrigation purposes and also urged farmers to use the water resources properly. Bharti said that there was a dire need to save Punjab from the crisis of depleting groundwater and for that people should come forward. She said there was also a need to encourage WUAs which should guide people for proper utilization of water resources.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
Farmers and members of WUAs from Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand are taking part in the convention.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
Speaking at inaugural function of the convention Bharati said, &quot;Water revolution (kranti) is the need of the hour in order to move forward in a dynamic way. Welfare of the society is the responsibility of the government but public also owes equal responsibility.&quot; She also urged the people to keep the Indian rivers and conserved water clean.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
Punjab secretary (irrigation) K S Pannu said that a large section of people in the state were engaged in agriculture and most of them were unaware of water conservation techniques. He said that only 27% of the total area under agriculture in Punjab was fed by canal water and remaining was dependent on groundwater drawn using tubewells. Pannu said that they were working to raise the farm area fed by canal water to 37%, which would lower the rate of groundwater depletion in the state. He also hailed the Union government's 'Per Drop More Crop' campaign.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
PAU registrar P S Khanna said that the farmers should also be apprised of crop diversification to save water and get higher yield using optimum irrigation.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
Punjab irrigation minister Sharanjit Singh Dhillon urged the Union minister to approve the Sirhind feeder project, which was pending with the Centre and also handed over a memorandum containing demands of Punjab.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<em>What's WUA?</em>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
Water Users Association (WUA) is a group of water users, who pool their financial, technical, material, and human resources for the operation and maintenance of a water system.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<em>PAU registrar mistaken for VC</em>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
There was some miscommunication and the Union minister Uma Bharti and other delegates, who came from other states, repeatedly referred to PAU registrar P S Khanna as the vice-chancellor of the varsity. VC B S Dhillon was also present during the event.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>',
	'credit_writer' => 'The Times of India, 26 August, 2015, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ludhiana/Unfortunate-that-Punjab-is-facing-water-shortage/articleshow/48675380.cms',
	'article_img' => '',
	'article_img_thumb' => '',
	'status' => (int) 1,
	'show_on_home' => (int) 1,
	'lang' => 'EN',
	'category_id' => (int) 16,
	'tag_keyword' => '',
	'seo_url' => '039unfortunate-that-punjab-is-facing-water-shortage039-4677081',
	'meta_title' => null,
	'meta_keywords' => null,
	'meta_description' => null,
	'noindex' => (int) 0,
	'publish_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	'most_visit_section_id' => null,
	'article_big_img' => null,
	'liveid' => (int) 4677081,
	'created' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	'modified' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	'edate' => '',
	'tags' => [
		(int) 0 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 4 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 5 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	'category' => object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	'[new]' => false,
	'[accessible]' => [
		'*' => true,
		'id' => false
	],
	'[dirty]' => [],
	'[original]' => [],
	'[virtual]' => [],
	'[hasErrors]' => false,
	'[errors]' => [],
	'[invalid]' => [],
	'[repository]' => 'Articles'

}
$articleid = (int) 29027
$metaTitle = 'LATEST NEWS UPDATES | &#039;Unfortunate that Punjab is facing water shortage&#039;'
$metaKeywords = 'Water Conservation,ground water depletion,ground water resources,Water  Shortage,Water Crisis,Water Scarcity'
$metaDesc = '
-The Times of India





LUDHIANA: It is very unfortunate that a state like Punjab, which is known for its rivers, is facing shortage of water. &quot;When I share this problem with the people of other states, they don't believe it and...'
$disp = '<div style="text-align: justify">-The Times of India</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify"><em>LUDHIANA: </em>It is very unfortunate that a state like Punjab, which is known for its rivers, is facing shortage of water. &quot;When I share this problem with the people of other states, they don't believe it and laugh it off. But in reality, conditions are becoming worse and there is a need to take immediate steps to improve the conditions,&quot; Union minister for water resources Uma Bharti said here on Tuesday. She was speaking at the inauguration of two-day regional convention of the Water Users Associations (WUAs) at the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU).</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Experts at the convention shared various techniques to encourage water conservation for irrigation purposes and also urged farmers to use the water resources properly. Bharti said that there was a dire need to save Punjab from the crisis of depleting groundwater and for that people should come forward. She said there was also a need to encourage WUAs which should guide people for proper utilization of water resources.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Farmers and members of WUAs from Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand are taking part in the convention.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Speaking at inaugural function of the convention Bharati said, &quot;Water revolution (kranti) is the need of the hour in order to move forward in a dynamic way. Welfare of the society is the responsibility of the government but public also owes equal responsibility.&quot; She also urged the people to keep the Indian rivers and conserved water clean.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Punjab secretary (irrigation) K S Pannu said that a large section of people in the state were engaged in agriculture and most of them were unaware of water conservation techniques. He said that only 27% of the total area under agriculture in Punjab was fed by canal water and remaining was dependent on groundwater drawn using tubewells. Pannu said that they were working to raise the farm area fed by canal water to 37%, which would lower the rate of groundwater depletion in the state. He also hailed the Union government's 'Per Drop More Crop' campaign.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">PAU registrar P S Khanna said that the farmers should also be apprised of crop diversification to save water and get higher yield using optimum irrigation.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Punjab irrigation minister Sharanjit Singh Dhillon urged the Union minister to approve the Sirhind feeder project, which was pending with the Centre and also handed over a memorandum containing demands of Punjab.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify"><em>What's WUA?</em></div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Water Users Association (WUA) is a group of water users, who pool their financial, technical, material, and human resources for the operation and maintenance of a water system.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify"><em>PAU registrar mistaken for VC</em></div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">There was some miscommunication and the Union minister Uma Bharti and other delegates, who came from other states, repeatedly referred to PAU registrar P S Khanna as the vice-chancellor of the varsity. VC B S Dhillon was also present during the event.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div>'
$lang = 'English'
$SITE_URL = 'https://im4change.in/'
$site_title = 'im4change'
$adminprix = 'admin'

include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51

'Unfortunate that Punjab is facing water shortage'

-The Times of India LUDHIANA: It is very unfortunate that a state like Punjab, which is known for its rivers, is facing shortage of water. "When I share this problem with the people of other states, they don't believe it and laugh it off. But in reality, conditions are becoming worse and there is a need to take immediate steps to improve the conditions," Union minister for water resources Uma Bharti said here on Tuesday. She was speaking at the inauguration of two-day regional convention of the Water Users Associations (WUAs) at the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU). Experts at the convention shared various techniques to encourage water conservation for irrigation purposes and also urged farmers to use the water resources properly. Bharti said that there was a dire need to save Punjab from the crisis of depleting groundwater and for that people should come forward. She said there was also a need to encourage WUAs which should guide people for proper utilization of water resources. Farmers and members of WUAs from Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand are taking part in the convention. Speaking at inaugural function of the convention Bharati said, "Water revolution (kranti) is the need of the hour in order to move forward in a dynamic way. Welfare of the society is the responsibility of the government but public also owes equal responsibility." She also urged the people to keep the Indian rivers and conserved water clean. Punjab secretary (irrigation) K S Pannu said that a large section of people in the state were engaged in agriculture and most of them were unaware of water conservation techniques. He said that only 27% of the total area under agriculture in Punjab was fed by canal water and remaining was dependent on groundwater drawn using tubewells. Pannu said that they were working to raise the farm area fed by canal water to 37%, which would lower the rate of groundwater depletion in the state. He also hailed the Union government's 'Per Drop More Crop' campaign. PAU registrar P S Khanna said that the farmers should also be apprised of crop diversification to save water and get higher yield using optimum irrigation. Punjab irrigation minister Sharanjit Singh Dhillon urged the Union minister to approve the Sirhind feeder project, which was pending with the Centre and also handed over a memorandum containing demands of Punjab. What's WUA? Water Users Association (WUA) is a group of water users, who pool their financial, technical, material, and human resources for the operation and maintenance of a water system. PAU registrar mistaken for VC There was some miscommunication and the Union minister Uma Bharti and other delegates, who came from other states, repeatedly referred to PAU registrar P S Khanna as the vice-chancellor of the varsity. VC B S Dhillon was also present during the event.