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 …
New Delhi: Delhi may finally get its rightful share from Munak canal, but only for the Commonwealth Games. After intervention from the Centre, Haryana has agreed to give Delhi 20 million gallons per day (MGD) water from whatever it will save due to Munak canal project. The state, however, continues …
OUR understanding of Indian cities— their history, geography, sociology, politics— is seriously limited. At the time of its Independence, India was primarily a rural country. The government invested heavily in understanding rural India. Take the case of the adivasis. The government assigned sociologists and anthropologists to understand the Scheduled Tribes; …
A major breach in the Yamuna flowing near the Bawana area in Outer Delhi on Sunday forced the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) authorities to shut down its 140-MGD (million gallons a day) water treatment plant (WTP) at Haiderpur and the 40-MGD Nangloi WTP, the main source of water supply to …
BRIJESH PANDEY reports on a community robbed of its livelihood by the machinations of the mafia image Exploitative machinery Trucks carrying sand dug up by earth movers, near Allahabad THE BEST way to deal with any agitation is to crush it with a heavy hand. At least this is what …
NEW DELHI: Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, who is also the chairperson of the Delhi Jal Board, on Thursday gave her approval for the DJB's Plan outlay of Rs.1,624.37 crore for the financial year 2010-11. Of the sanctioned amount of the annual budget, Rs.905 crore has been earmarked for the water …
New Delhi: In its budget for the year 2010-11 with a total plan outlay of Rs 1,624.37, Delhi Jal Board (DJB) seems to have accorded a significant amount to the cleaning of the Yamuna with Rs 595 crore for sewerage and Rs 124.47 crore for YAP-II. Another Rs 905 crore …
Having collected Rs 625 crore as revenue in the last fiscal, the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) on Thursday approved its total annual budget of Rs 1,624.37 crore for 2010-11. The revenue collections of the DJB have increased by Rs 180 crore as compared to 2008-09.
Joined 8-Day Initiative To Draw Attention To What Is Now A Sprawling Drain New Delhi: An engineering student recently came up with an interesting description of the Yamuna: It is like a supermarket, you can find everything in it. Shiva, a final year student of Faridabad, who spent eight days …
What should and can be done to clean the Yamuna? What is the strategy for business-unusual so that we can spend more money but this time get returns of a living and breathing river. One, we need to change the art of pollution control. First, we must understand that rivers …
Greater Noida: Officials of the special mining squad, including a sub-divisional magistrate and a deputy superintendent of police, had a narrow escape when the mining mafia opened fire at them during a surprise check in Maujabad area of Greater Noida. However, no one was injured as they managed to flee. …
Just 22km upstream from the Okhla barrage, the Yamuna is a different river. Upstream of Wazirabad in the north, it is a big, healthy river in which fish swim and to which birds come for water. Over the next 22km, it gets reduced to a giant sewer because of a …
