Buddah Nullah: Sandhwan seeks support for cleaning initiative

Punjab Assembly Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan has appealed to the people of Punjab to come forward to preserve the natural water sources. He said this during the 47th death anniversary of Sant Lal Singh observed at the ‘Nirmal Kuteya’ at Seechewal village in Lohian, Jalandhar. On the occasion, he urged the congregation to support the cleaning initiative of Buddah Nullah, and was supported by Rajya Sabha member and environmentalist Balbir Singh Seechewal.

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Speaker Sandhwan acknowledged that there had been previous attempts to clean Buddah Nullah, but none of them had been successful. However, he expressed hope that Seechewal’s efforts for cleaning up Buddah Nullah in Ludhiana would soon transform it into Buddah ‘dariya’.

He also expressed concern over the polluted waters from Ludhiana factories and dairy industries flowing into the Malwa region and 12 districts of Rajasthan. He highlighted that the contamination of Buddah Nullah with hazardous chemicals had been proving destructive for the aquatic life and were now beginning to affect human life as well. He expressed hope that the cleaning campaign led by Sant Balbir Singh Seechewal would revive this natural water source and bring it back to its clean state.

Sandhwan also gave reference of the earlier achievement of Seechewal in cleaning the 165-km-long Holy Bein, setting an inspiring example for the nation.

During the event, Rajya Sabha MP Balbir Singh Seechewal paid tributes to Sant Lal Singh. Seechewal also mentioned the recent report presented in Parliament about water sources, highlighting that dangerous metals were found in the groundwater of 20 of the 23 districts of Punjab. He appealed to the people of Punjab to conserve water as the state’s existence were directly dependent on it.

Religious men from various places spoke to connect the congregation with Gurbani and paid tributes to Sant Lal Singh. Sant Avtar Singh from Yadgari Nursery distributed plants among the audience.