Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
The Delhi Jal Board in a meeting held today approved the construction of a 6-million litres capacity underground reservoir (UGR) and a booster pumping station (BPS) with peripheral water mains at Mahipalpur Village and a few other projects. The board also approved a 12.4-million litres capacity UGR and BPS at …
The Delhi Jal Board plans to complete laying of sewer lines in all the 350 unauthorised colonies by 2014-15. The DJB on Thursday gave its sanction for starting work in those areas where there are no sewer lines and also for upgrading the existing water and sewage pipelines. So far, …
With the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) failing to give a clear picture regarding the number of tubewells in the capital, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday directed the DJB CEO to appear before it. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar passed the order after it found …
Orders the three Municipal Corporations to clean stormwater drains within a week to prevent a repeat of last week’s deluge The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the Delhi Government, the New Delhi Municipal Council and the three Municipal Corporations of Delhi to clean the stormwater drains within a week …
Comptroller and Auditor General Shashi Kant Sharma has ordered audit of the flood control measures and the drainage system in the capital on priority basis. The decision to audit the working of flood control mechanism in Delhi was taken in “view of the recent heavy rains which caused serious traffic …
A day after one person died in a JJ cluster at Rajokri Pahari allegedly due to consuming contaminated water, Delhi Jal Board said water samples picked up from their borewells were of good quality and safe for human consumption. “We have four borewells in the area and are supplying water …
Water was sourced from borewells in a jhuggi-jhonpri cluster in Rajokri A 36-year-old man was killed and about a dozen people reportedly took ill after drinking contaminated water sourced from borewells in a jhuggi-jhonpri cluster near the BSF camp at Rajokri in South-West Delhi. The incident comes close on the …
It is a choked, overflowing and disowned manhole that has emerged as the cause of water contamination that lead to two deaths and scores of people falling ill in South Delhi’s National Council of Educational, Research and Training (NCERT) campus. On Thursday, the Delhi Jal Board, the utility that supplies …
Water Contamination Has Hit 110-120 People In Past Week: Locals The number of people affected by water contamination at the NCERT campus in south Delhi is increasing by the day. Locals claim 110-120 people have fallen ill in the past one week. With NCERT officials doing little to fix the …
New Delhi : For two months, residents of NCERT Colony kept approaching authorities with complaints of contaminated water, but no action was taken. The authorities took notice only after two residents died and 70 fell ill. On Sunday, four-year-old Sanjana was declared dead at Safdarjung Hospital. Since then, several residents …
More than 70 people have fallen sick in the past few days at the NCERT campus in south Delhi, allegedly due to contamination of drinking water. "The reports of residents falling sick started coming in from Friday night and have increased over the weekend. The entire Type-1 building has been …
Over 40 people were taken ill after consuming contaminated water, supplied by Delhi Jal Board, on the NCERT campus near Hauz Khas on Tuesday. While some of those affected are under treatment at various city hospitals including Safdarjung, Rockland and Saket City Hospital in South Delhi, two persons including a …
At least two persons died and 50 fell ill after allegedly drinking contaminated water over the last few days in NCERT Colony, South Delhi. While samples of water from tanks in the colony have been sent for testing, the Delhi government announced that water tankers had been dispatched to the …
Three persons of the NCERT Colony at Aurobindo Marg died allegedly by drinking contaminated water and around 50 persons were hospitalized in Safdarjung, Rockland and Moti hospitals in south Delhi today. The Opposition put the onus on the Delhi Jal Board (DJB), saying that it has been providing polluted water …
Many A Slip To The Sip • 30 Number of Indian cities where private sector and MNCs have been roped in by civic bodies to manage the water supply. • 0 No project has so far delivered on lofty commitments; most continue to face major opposition from the consuming public …
New Delhi : The water-level in the Yamuna river receded to 206.5 metres on Thursday, but several low-lying areas in Delhi remained submerged for the second consecutive day. The Delhi government said 1,153 tents had been set up to house more than 10,000 people evacuated on Tuesday. The Health department …
The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) has refuted the claims of NGO Citizen’s Front for Water Democracy that the water utility is procuring more meters than it needs to. In a statement issued here, the Board dismissed these allegations. “The figures given by the NGO are misleading, baseless and mischievous. In …
Even as the Delhi Jal Board is undertaking work to bring unmetered areas into the billing net and has been conducting meter replacement drives in the city to ensure every drop is accounted for, a non-government organisation, Citizen’s Front for Water Democracy, has alleged that there is a discrepancy in …
New Delhi: The court deadline for restoration of Neela Hauz expired on February 28 but civic agencies have not been able to stop the flow of sewage into the water body. In the last meeting, Delhi Jal Board (DJB) complained that a newly constructed municipal drain was flowing into its …
The North Delhi Municipal Corporation, among all the three municipal corporations, is the most affected by the problem of polluted water supply. Over 7.3 per cent of the samples -- 507 out of the 6,922 -- from the three corporations failed the test which was carried out by the Public …
