Polluted Rivers and Punjab Government

1. CM has asked various departments to be ready with their projects and action-taken reports. 
2. 45 cities on the banks of the Sutlej and the Beas were the most affected by pollutants. Even as canals emerge from these rivers, they take along pollutants to cities and towns through which these pass. The first canal system emerging from the Sutlej is the Sirhind Canal, which supplies water both for drinking and irrigation to 10 districts.
3. dentified that around Ludhiana, the Sutlej was mainly polluted by 482 small and large electroplating. But as an initiative to help the government, these units were now discharging their waste into common effluent treatment plant.
   The government has also asked 17 large and 251 small and medium dyeing industries to install their own treatment plants.