Work on Yamuna sewers delayed
Smriti Kak Ramachandran
Smriti Kak Ramachandran
Deeksha Chopra | TNN New Delhi: The water you drink has been tasting funny of late? Well, the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) has an explanation. It
Facing water shortage, farmers led by the Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) today held a protest demanding release of water in Western Yamuna canal from Hamida headworks. In view of the BKU threat to open the gates of the headworks, a heavy police force was deployed at the headworks since morning.
The dispute between the irrigation departments of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh over the construction of a check dam in the Chhachhroli area to prevent Yamuna waters from entering villages of this district during the rains was resolved today.
E Sreedharan's strategy to clean and beautify the Yamuna and release land from its riverbed for development and other purposes is not very practical Busness Standard / New Delhi May 28, 2009, 0:27 IST
NEW DELHI: As against the need to install 15 common effluent treatment plants in Delhi, only 10 have been set up so far for the 51 industrial areas of the Capital at a cost of Rs.256 crore.
New Delhi: The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) has finally set its eyes on completing the second phase of the Yamuna Action Plan (YAP II) in Delhi. The agency says a major part of the project will be completed by March 2010, in time for the Commonwealth Games.
Says Interceptors
Environmentalists have called for concerted efforts to elevate Delhi to the status of World Heritage City. The Delhi environment department has started planting trees on Yamuna bank.
The top layer of accumulated sand washed down by floods over millions of years, makes river floodplains into giant aquifers. We propose a scheme for the natural storage of excess monsoon river-water discharge in the extensive and deep sand top layer of the floodplain of the river.
New Delhi: Under the Yamuna Action Plan, about Rs 1,500 crore has been spent so far on cleaning the river and another project worth Rs 4,000 crore is ready to take off. This has, however, made little difference to the state of the river. Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit recently observed that the river was no better than a drain.
NGO Yamuna Jiye Abhiyaan responds to DMRC MD E Sreedharan
DMRC chief E Sreedharan has pricked the conscience of the city for abusing the river that is its lifeline. But his proposal for building retaining walls on both the banks and developing the low-lying areas has not met with approval from experts TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Dr E Sreedharan, MD of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, says a handful of environmentalists are coming in the way of saving the river and calls for setting up of an SPV to do the job
NEW DELHI: While constructing the Yamuna Bank station on the river bed, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation had taken into account all environmental concerns.
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While the Delhi government had been debating on what needs to be done to clean the river, the pollution levels have only worsened. In its book Sewage Canal: How to Clean the Yamuna, published in 2007, the Centre for Science and Environment reported that the Delhi stretch of the river is not only dead but had an overload of coliform contamination.
An analytical review of the interceptor plan for cleaning Yamuna. CSE has closely scrutinised the interceptor plan and found this hardware plan to be a complete waste of money. The river will continue to remain dead despite the massive investments planned during 2009-2012.
New Delhi: There