Cleaning the Yamuna: A story of missed deadlines
3 years, 4 months ago

Cleaning the Yamuna: A story of missed deadlines

The Hindu  

The draft NCR Regional Plan-2041 prepared by the National Capital Region Planning Board has fixed 2026 as the new deadline to ensure ‘zero discharge of untreated sewage and industrial discharge into the Yamuna’. The first Yamuna Action Plan, for which a loan agreement was signed in 1992, was for “improvement of water quality conservation in the river, and hygiene environment in the cities in the river basin”. Missed deadlines In 1994, the Supreme Court took cognisance of a newspaper article “Quiet Flows Maily Yamuna” and summoned the Central Pollution Control Board to explain the issue. “Ministry of Jal Shakti has observed that the water-sharing agreement of 1994 between Uttarakhand, H.P., U.P., Haryana, Rajasthan and Delhi is due for revision in 2025 unless any of the States so demand, implying that no revision of water sharing will be possible to achieve the environmental flow in the Yamuna,” the July report reads.

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LG reviews Yamuna revival works, sets June 30 deadline for clean floodplain
1 year, 9 months ago

LG reviews Yamuna revival works, sets June 30 deadline for clean floodplain

Hindustan Times  

Delhi lieutenant governor VK Saxena on Sunday set June 30 as deadline for cleaning up the 22-km stretch of the Yamuna floodplain between Wazirabad and Okhlaas he inspected the works to clean the supplementary drain at Wazirabad and Sur Ghat at the river. I don’t want to talk politics and everyone should work together to clean Yamuna.” Delhi water minister …

Over ₹6,800 crore spent in 5 years on cleaning Yamuna
1 year, 9 months ago

Over ₹6,800 crore spent in 5 years on cleaning Yamuna

The Hindu  

April 03, 2023 02:42 am | Updated 01:29 pm IST - NEW DELHI Nearly ₹6,856.91 crore was spent over five years, from 2017-21, to clean the Delhi stretch of river Yamuna, the Environment Department said in response to a question raised in the Assembly. The DPCC’s February report also stated that faecal coliform found in the river was beyond the …

Bridge ‘huge gap’ in sewage treatment and generation: NGT on Yamuna pollution
1 year, 10 months ago

Bridge ‘huge gap’ in sewage treatment and generation: NGT on Yamuna pollution

Hindustan Times  

The National Green Tribunal has said the "huge gap" in the generation and treatment of sewage in the Yamuna catchment area in Haryana needed to be remedied on a war footing. The tribunal was hearing matters pertaining to remedial action against "unabated pollution" of the Yamuna and the authorities' alleged “failure” to tackle the same “to the detriment of the …

Possible to clean Yamuna to bathing standards by 2025: Experts
2 years, 8 months ago

Possible to clean Yamuna to bathing standards by 2025: Experts

The Hindu  

Despite the delays and challenges, it is possible to clean the Yamuna in Delhi to bathing standards and achieve water quality to support propagation of aquatic life by 2025, experts have said. While the installation and upgradation of sewage treatment plants, trapping of sewage flowing in the drains and effective septage management will definitely bring improvement in the river water …

Yamuna Will Be Cleaned by December 2023 Not 2025, Says Satyendar Jain
2 years, 9 months ago

Yamuna Will Be Cleaned by December 2023 Not 2025, Says Satyendar Jain

News 18  

Advancing the deadline for the cleaning of the Yamuna in Delhi, Water Minister Satyendar Jain Tuesday said the river will be completely cleaned by December 2023 and not 2025. Jain said considering the increase in drinking water supply, Delhi aims to achieve a sewage treatment capacity of around 1,000 million gallons a day in the near future. According to Delhi …

No Dirty Water Will Flow into Yamuna by December-end, Says National Mission for Clean Ganga Official
2 years, 10 months ago

No Dirty Water Will Flow into Yamuna by December-end, Says National Mission for Clean Ganga Official

News 18  

No dirty water will be flowing into the Yamuna by December-end as all drains carrying sewage into the river will be tapped, a senior official said. National Mission for Clean Ganga Director General G Asok Kumar said there are 18 drains that deliver dirty water into the Yamuna, and plans are afoot to tap these drains and divert the dirty …

No dirty water will flow into Yamuna by December-end: NMCG official
2 years, 10 months ago

No dirty water will flow into Yamuna by December-end: NMCG official

The Hindu  

The over 1,300-km-long Yamuna is among the most polluted rivers in the country and also provides water to more than half of the national capital. No dirty water will be flowing into the Yamuna by December-end as all drains carrying sewage into the river will be tapped, a senior official said. National Mission for Clean Ganga Director General G. Asok …

Yamuna monitoring panel raises several issues on river pollution
4 years ago

Yamuna monitoring panel raises several issues on river pollution

The Hindu  

The Yamuna Monitoring Committee, in its fifth report submitted to the National Green Tribunal, has raised multiple issues due to which the river is still polluted, including several agencies missing deadlines related to cleaning the river and internal problems of the organisations. The committee said in its report that in some cases the developments have been “better than expected” and …

Unhappy with Yamuna cleaning, NGT asks Delhi, UP and Haryana govts to deposit Rs 10 crore each
5 years, 11 months ago

Unhappy with Yamuna cleaning, NGT asks Delhi, UP and Haryana govts to deposit Rs 10 crore each

Firstpost  

The National Green Tribunal Tuesday expressed dissatisfaction over the cleaning of river Yamuna and directed Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh governments to submit a performance guarantee of Rs 10 crore each within a month New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal Tuesday expressed dissatisfaction over the cleaning of river Yamuna and directed Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh governments to submit a …

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