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 …
Alleging that Delhi was emptying its 16 drains into the Yamuna river which was later converging with the Ganga and polluting it, the UP government has issued a notice to Arvind Kejriwal government and threatened to cut water supply to the national capital. Uttar Pradesh irrigation minister Shivpal Singh told …
Putrid water is being released by drainages With water from the Yamuna becoming increasingly contaminated and unfit for human consumption in Agra and Mathura, the Uttar Pradesh Government has served notice on the Delhi government to ensure that toxic water is not released into the river by factories. The State …
Statement of the Minister of Environment and Forests in response to Lok Sabha Starred Question No. 272 for 10 February 2014, asked by Shri Kristappa Nimmala and Shri Nama Nageswara Rao regarding progress made in regard to cleaning of Ganga river in the country under Ganga Action Plan Phase - …
To count the number of migratory and local birds in the Yamuna river in Farah area of Mathura, ornithologists and a group of Yamuna eco-scholars participated in the four km long march on the occasion of World Wetland Day, on Sunday. World Wetland day is observed on February 2 every …
Once a desolate spot, Yamuna Biodiversity Park has now become a favourite haunt of birdwatchers. The park has been welcoming hundreds of migratory birds from Siberia, Europe and the Himalayas every year, but this year, hundreds of Redcrested Pochards have been sighted in the park. Scientists credit the successful restoration …
Government has decided to shift the depot to another place to restore the flood plain of the Yamuna The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) on Wednesday informed the Delhi High Court that it did not have spare land for allocation to the State Government for relocation of the sprawling Millennium Bus …
National Green Tribunal today directed that no steel pickling works can function in the national capital without the consent of the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC). "We direct that no pickling unit is to be permitted to operate in Delhi without obtaining the consent of DPCC," said a bench headed …
Delhi government’s environment department has reservations about the National Capital Region Planning Board (NCRPB) draft regional plan 2021. It has raised concerns about a provision in the plan that may facilitate tourism and development activities in the Aravalis, Yamuna river bed and other ecologically sensitive areas. Sanjiv Kumar, environment secretary, …
Way back in 1986, Rajiv Gandhi launched the Ganga Action Plan. But years later, after much water (sewage) and money have flowed down the river, it is as bad as it could get. Why are we failing, and what needs to be done differently to clean this and many other …
The Himalayan mountain front is characterised by front parallel longitudinal valleys called Dun, that occupy the synformal troughs. The perennial glacial fed rivers Ganga and Yamuna experience first major gradient loss along the valley floor of Dehra Duyn and produce characteristic landforms and deposits by the gradational processes of streams …
Untreated waste flows into Yamuna for third time in 10 days For the third time in the past 10 days, ammonia levels in the Wazirabad pond have overshot the permissible limits due to release of untreated industrial and domestic waste from Haryana. The Delhi Jal Board was on Thursday forced …
The Chairman of the Upper Yamuna River Board today requested the Haryana government to spell out their plans in order to stop the flow of untreated industrial and domestic waste being released through drains in Panipat into the Yamuna. Due to untreated water, the level of ammonia has increased in …
NEW DELHI: The Green Chemistry Network Centre (GCNC) of Delhi University has claimed to have developed a solution for chromium pollution from tanneries. In a recently concluded workshop on sustainability and water quality, the DU team presented a polymer (chemical compound made of many interlinked molecules) that can absorb chromium, …
KANPUR: Illegal sand mining in the riverbeds of the Yamuna and Sindh rivers along the Uttar Pradesh-Madhya Pradesh border in the region is continuing in blatant violation of the Supreme Court's February 2012 ruling. Sand, illegally extracted in Etawah, Jalaun and Fatehpur is being used to fuel construction activities in …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Gurpreet Singh Bagga Vs. MoEF Vs. Ors. dated 22/01/2014 regarding mining on the banks of River Yamuna, Uttar Pradesh.
लोकसभा चुनावों में दक्षिण हरियाणा से लेकर मथुरा-आगरा तक यमुना जल प्रदूषण मुख्य मुद्दा होगा। यमुना रक्षक दल ने रविवार को यहां गांव प्याला में आयोजित महापंचायत में निर्णय लिया कि यमुना नदी और इसके पानी से गुलजार होने वाली आगरा व गुड़गांव नहर के पानी को प्रदूषण मुक्त कराने …
Kejri Removes Depot To Save River And Preserve Important Source Of Water New Delhi: In a move that has been welcomed by environmental activists, the Millennium Bus Depot, constructed as a temporary structure on the Yamuna river bank during the 2010 Commonwealth Games, will be shifted out. Chief minister Arvind …
Its inspection team finds high concentration of industrial, domestic waste in the river An inspection team of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) today identified the high concentration of industrial and domestic waste being discharged into the Yamuna in an untreated form as the major source of pollution in the river. …
A day after production at two of Delhi’s major water treatment plants had to be curtailed by 50 per cent after raw water from Haryana came laden with industrial pollutants, the water utility announced resumption of normal production on Tuesday as the pollutants were diluted. “The matter of rise in …
Haryana, UP Industries Release Untreated Waste; City Water Plants Not Fully Equipped New Delhi: The Delhi Jal Board had to reduce production in two major water treatment plants by half after ammonia levels in raw water spiked on Monday. This is not the first time DJB has been forced to …
