Tag: KS Pannu

Punjab: Stubble burning woes to end as Rabi sowing picks up

The state had been in the centre of the storm for stubble burning, whose hazards were reportedly felt across northern India, including the capital Delhi.

November 11, 2018

One-year ban on gutkha, pan masala in Punjab

An official spokesperson said the decision has been taken in pursuance of the Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restrictions on Sales) Regulations, 2011.

October 13, 2018

Punjab: FDA steps to check sale of flour ‘unfit’ for human consumption

With over two tonne of rotten, foul smelling wheat recovered from a flour mill in Ludhiana, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Punjab has ordered steps to check the sale of flour ‘unfit for human consumption’. The FDA commissioner KS Pannu on Friday said one may opt out of fruits, sweets or paneer (cheese) out of...

September 22, 2018

Stubble burning: Punjab delivers over 7,300 machines for crop residue management

Disclosing this here on Tuesday, secretary agriculture KS Pannu said that the department was working to ensure the delivery of the machines before the onset of paddy harvesting.

September 19, 2018

Punjab: After FDA raids, rise in applications for FBO licenses

Pannu informed that 4518 applications for licence or registration as an FBO have been received by the department just in a month.

September 14, 2018

Punjab: FDA crackdown on mustard oil adulterators after warning

Days after Punjab Food and Drug Administration (FDA), warned against mustard oil adulteration, FDA’s food safety teams have conducted raids across the state to check mustard oil adulterators. Divulging into details, FDA commissioner KS Pannu said the Fazilka Food Safety Team in a raid at NG Oil Mill, Abohar found impure mustard oil to the...

September 12, 2018

Punjab FDA warns against mustard oil adulteration

Taking a serious view of sale of adulterated mustard oil in Punjab, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), commissioner KS Pannu on Monday warned strong legal action against those indulging in adulteration. He said that cheap palm oil and crude rice bran oil, as well as crude soybean oil, are being mixed with mustard oil by...

September 11, 2018

Punjab: Drive against spurious products continues

Continuing its drive against spurious food and milk products, Punjab’s food safety teams made a big haul by nailing two tankers carrying suspected refined palm oil of 28 metric tonne (MT) and 27 MT each. About 1602 litres of cooking medium, 930 kilogram (kg) vanaspati and 800 litres refined soyabean oil was also seized along...

September 8, 2018

Chemists warned against selling prohibited drugs

The Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) Punjab has warned chemists against selling prohibited and intoxicating drugs. The FDA commissioner KS Pannu has urged people to come forward and inform the department if any chemist is found selling prohibited and intoxicating drugs. Coupled with the ongoing inspections of the wholesale and retail chemist shops, the drugs...

September 1, 2018

Drive to seize spurious milk products continues

A day after huge quantities of spurious milk and milk products were seized in Patiala, Moga and Sangrur, Punjab government’s Food Safety team on Friday continued to seize huge amount of spurious products with seizure of over three quintals of paneer (cheese) in Ludhiana. This was after working on a tip off, Food Safety Team...

August 18, 2018

Tandarust Punjab for reduction in usage of fertilisers

Claiming reduction in the usage of Diammonium Phosphate (DAP) fertiliser by 29 per cent in the kharif crops, Tandarust Punjab Mission on Tuesday said it would not focus on restraining the usage of urea. Informing this, Mission Director, Tandarust (healthy) Punjab, KS Pannu said goaded by the lust to get more yield or in a...

July 17, 2018

Install devices to suck toxic smoke, PPCB tells erring units

The Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) on Tuesday asked the concerned authorities to install air pollution control devices at the industrial town of Mandi Gobindgarh with immediate effect to control the rising pollution levels. The decision in this regard has been taken following the reports of billowing out toxic smoke and other residue polluting the...

June 27, 2018

Straw management must for combine harvesters: Govt

In a bid to curb the menace of stubble burning, the Punjab government has made it mandatory for combine harvesters in the state to attach super straw management system, which cuts the paddy straw into small pieces and spread the same, with the harvester combine. Disclosing this, Punjab Pollution Control Board chairman, KS Pannu, said...

February 12, 2018