Yamuna remains dirty, funds unutilised
While Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit claims that Yamuna cannot be cleaned before the Commonwealth Games, it has emerged that the funds for the Yamuna Action Plan
While Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit claims that Yamuna cannot be cleaned before the Commonwealth Games, it has emerged that the funds for the Yamuna Action Plan
Authority Wants To Use Flood Zone For Industrial, Commercial Activity Neha Lalchandani | TNN
Anita Joshua NEW DELHI: The Ganga and the Yamuna are no cleaner today than they were two decades ago, though the government is spending huge amounts on action plans for the rivers, Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh told the Lok Sabha on Friday.
The Lieutenant-Governor
Ganga, Yamuna No Cleaner Now Than 20 Years Ago: Ramesh PTI NEW DELHI IN A frank admission, the Centre on Friday said in the Lok Sabha that Ganga and Yamuna were
New Delhi: The lid is finally off the mega UP government project facing Sector 15A of Noida that irked residents because of its encroachment on the Yamuna riverbed and alleged destruction of green areas.
The consumers are being made to pay for the penalty levied upon Delhi Jal Board (DJB) for non-treating of sewage water. The DJB is charging three paisa per kilolitre water from the consumers. Strangely, consumer is being forced to pay for the failure of Jal Board to treat sewage water. The big question is why the consumer should pay for failure of DJB in the Capital.
Lieutenant-Governor Tejendra Khanna is proposing to convert the 22-kilometre Yamuna riverbank stretch into a biodiversity zone, seen by experts as a radical ecological solution to the dying river.
A presentation of an ethnography of the relationship between urban spaces, new cultures of consumption, the state, and the making of middle class identities in India. Firstly, the discussion explores the making of new urban spaces by focusing upon the Akshardham Temple complex on the banks of the Yamuna river in Delhi.
The spectre of drought looms large over eight Haryana districts facing acute water shortage. There was shortfall of about 7,000 cusecs of water per day as the supply from the Sutlej and Yamuna canal water schemes has dropped to 50 per cent.
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It would take eight more years before Yamuna can be cleaned, declared Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on the floor of the House of Delhi Assembly during the Budget session on Tuesday. The Chief Minister said there is no magic wand to clean Yamuna by 2010 Commonwealth Games.
Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar NEW DELHI: Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit told the Delhi Assembly on Tuesday that the Yamuna Action Plan I and II have not yielded any tangible result despite crores of rupees having been spent on cleaning the river. She admitted that the project would take at least seven to eight years to complete.
New Delhi: For all the green concern voiced by the government, the environment sector has got a paltry Rs 129 crore this year
The Delhi government has given the go-ahead for the construction of a Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) bus parking next to the Commonwealth Games Village for 300 buses on the ecologically sensitive and moratorium-bound Yamuna flood plain.
The DJB plans to set up a big sewerage treatment plant for Commonwealth Games 2010.More plants are likely at Delhi Gate, Delhi Cantt, Pappan Kalan and Nilothi.
JAIPUR: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and his Haryana counterpart Bhupinder Singh Hooda met here on Friday in what appeared to be an effort by the heads of two Congress-ruled States to thrash out the vexing issue of sharing of river waters in a friendly atmosphere.
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Friday assured his Rajasthan counterpart Ashok Gehlot that his Government would initiate steps to provide Rajasthan its share of water from river Yamuna under the 1981 Water Agreement.
Ramaswamy R. Iyer Environmental concerns have tended to be segmented, focussing on one theme at a time. It is necessary to ensure a holistic view encompassing all the themes and the vital nature-wildlife-human inter-relationships.
Manish Sirhindi Large amounts of industrial pollutants being drained into the Western Yamuna Canal (WYC) here have become a source of misery not only for local residents but also for those living downstream of the canal.