Ludhiana, Sept. 24 -- Though rain has subsided, the still swollen Sutlej river that has changed its course near Sasrali Colony has forced Ludhiana deputy commissioner Himanshu Jain to write to the army's Western Command, seeking immediate assistance from its engineering wing to save farmland and homes along the river near the village.

The river has been eroding agricultural land and posing a serious threat to its embankments. In his communication to the adviser-cum-principal director of the civil military affairs and joint operations of the Western Command Headquarters, DC Jain warned that farmers were losing their fertile land daily due to the continuous erosion near the dhussi bundh in Mattewara zone. "We are trying all existing resour...