Chandigarh, Feb. 3 -- Rajya Sabha member Vikramjit Singh Sahney on Monday expressed serious concern over the alarming depletion of groundwater in Punjab, seeking a groundwater revival and crop-diversification package.

Sahney warned that continued policy neglect could push the state towards an irreversible water crisis. The demand was made after the Union jal shakti ministry, in response to his question in the Rajya Sabha informed that as per the Central Ground Water Board data, while about 57% of monitored wells showed a marginal rise, 42% of wells across Punjab recorded a fall in groundwater levels.

The MP said that the survey of these wells was done post-monsoon 2025, when Punjab witnessed the worst floods in its modern history.

"It ...