ROPAR, AUGUST 23: Police authorities at City Ropar Police Station have registered a First Information Report concerning the alarming discharge of chemical-based industrial waste into the Sutlej river system. The formal complaint, submitted by Ropar MLA Dinesh Chadha, asserts that toxic effluents flowing through the Sirsa river from the neighboring Baddi-Nalagarh industrial complex in Himachal Pradesh are severely contaminating regional water resources.
The legal filing invokes multiple provisions under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, and the Environment (Protection) Act against unnamed industrial units operating within the Baddi-Nalagarh zone. Authorities state that the uncontrolled dumping of hazardous pollutants poses an immediate threat to municipal drinking water supplies, surrounding agricultural land, aquatic ecosystems, and general public health across the Ropar district.
In a parallel development, environmental advocates have approached state leadership to seek swift inter-state intervention. Veteran campaigner Colonel Jasjit Singh Gill written to Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, urging an immediate high-level meeting with Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu to halt upstream industrial discharges. Gill maintained that pharmaceutical and ethanol units dump untreated waste into the Sirsa prior to its entry into Punjab near Ghanauli, and he asserted that the Punjab Pollution Control Board must deploy real-time water monitoring sensors at critical border entry points to protect downstream communities.
