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Food and Civil Supplies Minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu (left) along with Environment Minister O P Soni in Ludhiana. (Express Photo by Gurmeet Singh) Food and Civil Supplies Minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu (left) along with Environment Minister O P Soni in Ludhiana. (Express Photo by Gurmeet Singh)Punjab Environment Minister OP Soni inspected the polluted Buddha Nullah in Ludhiana Tuesday and handed out a two-month deadline to the dyeing industry to follow rules and stop releasing untreated water and toxic waste into the stream. However, with the Punjab government’s share and financial assistance from industrialists, the most part of installation work has been completed, he added. Presiding over a meeting with dyeing units associations, Soni said that though industries are the backbone of development in the state, but the government will not tolerate any kind of environmental pollution..