With the Yamuna flowing above its evacuation mark of 206m for the second day in a row on Monday, experts urged authorities to demarcate the river’s active floodplain zone and remove major encroachments falling within it, noting that the mushrooming of encroachments had led to the path of the river becoming narrow in Delhi. AK Gosain from Indian Institute of …
The Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday reiterated its allegations that the flooding of the Yamuna in Delhi was not a natural calamity, but was caused by the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Haryana government releasing water from the Hathnikund barrage only towards the Capital, instead of releasing water equitably into other canals. The Haryana government hit back, calling the allegations baseless, accusing …
