Abohar, March 2 : Ahead of the general elections in India, Radio Pakistan is trying to provoke communal dissentions, particularly in Punjab, by propagating that minorities are not being given their rights in India. Its programmes seem to be fondly looking at the brief success they had in fomenting dissentions two decades ago by provoking proxy war and inciting Sikhs.

Punjab is reeling from an unusual crisis. The state doesn't have enough space to store the bumper food grain crop it reaps every year.

In the last couple of years, stocks have piled up and there is no space to preserve wheat, for which procurement will commence in the first week of April.

The state proposes to procure 125 lakh tonnes of wheat this season and has sent an SOS to the Centre that unless adequate space is made available, the exercise could be jeopardised.

Kaler Khera village (Punjab), Feb 28 : The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is a big hit among the villagers in Punjab.

The Government launched the ambitious NREGS in 2006 to provide employment to villagers.

Villagers of Kaler Khera of Punjab are making the most of it. They are enjoying the benefits of the scheme as they are gainfully employed.

They are now harnessing their productive potential to the hilt and are getting at least a hundred days of employment.

Amritsar, Feb. 27 : To set a unique example by a community, various Sikh originations are going to hold world's largest blood donation camp on the occasion of the Hola Mohalla celebrations on March 10 at the Sikh shrine of Keshgarh Sahib, Anandpur Sahib.

About one million devotees are expected to arrive here on the occasion of Hola Mohalla celebrations here, when the huge blood donation camp will be organized.

Muktsar (Punjab), Feb 26: Seepage water in canals in Punjab's Muktsar district has caused water logging in fields.

Water logged fields and houses in the area have developed crack.

The fields, which used to yield crops, are now serving as habitat for wild ducks. The situation has forced the farmers to abandon farming and work as daily wage laborers.

"The farmers who were owners of 40 acres farmlands are now forced to work as daily wage laborers. They have no other alternative as their fields have been destroyed by waterlogging," said Hajoor Singh, a farmer.

Muktsar (Punjab), Feb 2