Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Residents Welfare Association Savita Vihar Vs Irrigation & Flood Control Department & Others dated 28/05/2025. The applicant raised the grievance against throwing of construction debris and sewage obstruction in the Ghazipur drain. According to the applicant this drain flows behind …
The State Assembly witnessed an uproarious scene as the Opposition members created a ruckus over the pollution in rivers for which the State Government could not issue proper solutions. The issue was raised during the Question Hour. Though State Zoo Minister Shiv Pratap Yadav admitted in the House that the …
AGRA: Thousands of dead fish have been found floating at Samgor ghat of river Yamuna in Etmadpur area of Agra over the past few days. Locals and environmentalists have attributed the death to rising pollution in the river water. However, a team of Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) which …
In a significant move to control pollution in the Yamuna, the city administration has undertaken a comprehensive project that will include water transportation and beautification of all the ghats in Delhi. The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) will spend over Rs 25,000 crores to set up an “interceptor sewer project” to …
L-G reviews Yamuna plan, assigns responsibilities to public agencies. If all goes according to plan, the Yamuna will be restored to its glory of yore. Lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung has made the holistic development of the river the foremost priority of the administration. At a review meeting at his office here …
In a step to check pollution levels in the Yamuna, Delhi government on Tuesday said that it has undertaken a comprehensive interceptor sewer project to ensure that water from drains is treated before being discharged into the Yamuna. “Around 70 per cent of pollution in the river will be reduced …
NEW DELHI: The capital will have to spend another Rs 25,000 crore to clean up the Yamuna and provide sewerage connections in unsewered areas. The figure was quoted at a review meeting on the river held by LG Najeeb Jung on Monday. The LG has asked work on several sewerage …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Raghubir Singh Vs Union of India Ors. dated 25/06/2014 on whether the proposed site of a complex falls within the catchment area of the rivers Yamuna or Hindon.
To deal with the perennial water problems, the city needs to urgently introduce conservation measures in totality, and not sporadically. A holistic approach to water conservation, including encouraging use of water-efficient devices, both in residential and industrial units, treatment of sewage, economic usage of water at an individual level and …
AGRA: With an aim to curb the rising pollution in Yamuna, the Agra district administration has decided to strictly implement the ban on use of polythene in the city. For the same cause, the municipal authorities have been asked to place barricades at Yamuna ghats to resist locals for throwing …
Babubhai Navalawala, a water expert from Gujarat, appointed head of the advisory group With the city facing acute shortage of drinking water, Delhi lieutenant-governor Najeeb Jung on Thursday instituted an advisory group of experts to work out a comprehensive action plan and create task forces to execute it to meet …
The adviser to the Gujarat government on water issues, Babubhai Navalawala will now head an advisory group that will "guide the Delhi government on issues related to water management". Navalawala, a former secretary in the ministry of water resources and a water expert, has also been associated with the Sardar …
River’s condition can’t improve unless 100% sewage is treated” The major source of the Capital’s water is also the destination for a large amount of its raw sewage, as treatment plants are being underutilised and sewage is flowing into the Yamuna. As per the Delhi Jal Board, which is responsible …
The city’s environment department has asked the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) and the MCD to provide land for the disposal of sludge from effluent treatment plants (ETPs) and sewage treatment plants (STPs) in the city, which is a major pollutant of the Yamuna River. Delhi generates approximately 800 million gallons …
Days after setting up a committee of secretaries to work out a plan on Ganga rejuvenation, the government on Tuesday announced a similar group of senior officers to make a plan to clean the Yamuna. The committee on Yamuna, comprising senior officers of urban and rural development ministries and Central …
ays Building On Floodplain Not A Good Idea For Yamuna Delhi's bid to rep licate the Sabarmati riverfront development project for Yamuna has taken a controversial turn. C R Babu, DU professor emeritus and chairman of the state-level expert appraisal committee, has advised the lieutenant governor and the capital's bureaucrats …
Installing more sewage and effluent treatment plants and restricting the discharge of untreated wastewater into drains are among the recommendations of a high-power committee convened by Lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung to clean the polluted Yamuna river in Delhi. The panel's recommendations come at a time when there are already reports of …
The first leg of the sewage interceptor system, held up by the Delhi government as the only solution to the Yamuna problem, is expected to be complete by 2014-end. The entire project, that involves laying of parallel conduits along the three main drains in Delhi and upgrading sewage treatment plants, …
Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Mathura, Hema Malini, said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had assured her to include the river Yamuna in the 'Clean Ganga Campaign', which is on the priority of the National Democratic Alliance Government's agenda. "I had a discussion with the PM and he assured me …
A 13-member team of Delhi state government was on a study tour of the Sabarmati riverfront on Thursday. The team, led by environment and forests secretary Sanjiv Kumar, included officials from Delhi Jal Board, urban designers and horticulturists. The objective of the tour was to analyze as to how the …
On the eve of World Environment Day, the Capital does not score very high on the environmental report card going by the views of environmentalists and conservationists based in the city. While successive governments have long debated on what needs to be done to clean the Yamuna, the river has …
