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 (DJB) has curtailed water supply to Northern Railway, forcing it to fetch water from Jind in Haryana, according to the Indian Railways. Divisional railway manager AK Sachan said Northern Railway (NR) in Delhi used to get 30 lakh million litres of water daily from the DJB. …
When BJP councillor Mahendra Ahuja stood up in front of the Standing Committee on Thursday with a two litre bottle of what looked like an aerated drink, it may have seemed like he was planning to treat his colleagues to a cold beverage. “This is a sample of drinking water …
By its own admission, 40 per cent of the water supplied by Delhi Jal Board (DJB) is non-revenue water. Now, the DJB is finally set to launch its ambitious project to plug revenue losses. Having outsourced the revenue management project to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in October, 2010, the water …
Taking the Delhi Government to task, North Delhi Municipal Corporation’s Leader of the House Mahender Nagpal on Thursday said that the agreement signed between the Delhi Jal Board and a Singapore-based company to purify water confirms that the water supplied is contaminated. Mr. Nagpal said under this agreement there is …
The Delhi Jal Board on Thursday hit back at the North Delhi Municipal Corporation which had claimed that nearly 50 per cent of water supplied in its area was contaminated and unfit for drinking. The Jal board questioned the methodology that the North Corporation adopted in conducting the tests, saying …
New Delhi: Despite various guidelines issued by the Delhi high court and Supreme Court for protection of sewage cleaners, incidents of sewer deaths continue to multiply. Sources claim there have been at least 40 sewer related deaths in the last six months in the capital and yet the guidelines have …
A day after a water survey was conducted by North Delhi Municipal Corporation revealed the supply of contaminated water in North Delhi areas, the Delhi Jal Board on Thursday contradicted the report and claimed that water being supplied in the area was fit for drinking. The agency, which is responsible …
Pumps stop droning as Delhiites make efforts for equal distribution There is no droning of water pumps and no contest between neighbours over whose motor draws more water in Vasant Vihar’s Hill View Apartments. When the Delhi Jal Board supplies water twice a day in this otherwise parched locality of …
Delhi on Wednesday signed an agreement with Singapore to set up waste water treatment plants that will generate ‘new water’ for the city’s consumption. ‘New Water’ as it is popularly called is treated sewage and waste water that is being increasingly used in cities where water is in short supply. …
At least half the households under the North Municipal Corporation get contaminated water, a study by the civic agency has revealed. To assess the water quality in its area, the North corporation collected 258 water samples from its six zones. Of these, 129 were found unfit for consumption. The samples …
Harassment of citizens by public authorities is “socially abhorring and legally impermissible”, the Delhi State Consumer Commission has said, asking Delhi Jal Board (DJB) to pay Rs. 8,000 as compensation to a man for not providing proper drinking water. The commission gave the order dismissing the DJB argument that it …
Both sides maintain it was a “cordial meeting” and outstanding issues will be sorted through discussions After weeks of trading allegations and a two-hour meeting between the Chief Ministers of the two States on Monday, the ongoing water sharing dispute between Delhi and Haryana was eventually attributed to “heat”, “high …
New Delhi: Respite from prolonged water shortage is in sight for parched Delhi with Haryana on Monday agreeing to release enough water to help the capital tide over its crisis while not losing sight of its own needs. An easing of hostilities between Delhi and Haryana came after a meeting …
Instead of managing the distribution of water properly, the Delhi government held Haryana responsible for the water crisis in the national Capital, said the BJP. Delhi unit chief of the BJP, Vijendra Gupta said the Haryana government claimed that it supplied the full share of Delhi, but the city government …
Amidst reports of the neighbouring state cutting water supply to Delhi, Haryana claimed Sunday that it was releasing double of its legitimate share of water to the national capital. Stating this here, chief engineer of Yamuna Water Services, Haryana irrigation department in Delhi, Anand Kumar said Delhi’s legitimate share of …
Sheila and Hooda meeting today to resolve the problem There was no end to the city's water crisis on Sunday, or to the bickering between Haryana and Delhi administrators over water sharing. On Sunday Haryana added another accusation to the ongoing allegations-counter allegations story; it said the city's water supplier …
New Delhi:Residents in many colonies may be struggling for their daily share of water, but so severe is the crisis in the agricultural belt of the capital — Najafgarh — that farmers have been forced to sell their lands and change crop patterns. Officials at the sub-registrar’s office in Najafgarh …
Delhi has been accusing Haryana of curtailing its water supply, Haryana is adamant that Delhi is getting its full share, both have offered their records as proof to back their respective claims, but the Upper Yamuna River Board, which has been asked to verify these records, has turned to the …
As the city grappled on Friday with a heatwave and a power demand that broke all records, residents of a village in Alipur damaged two low-floor DTC buses and some private vehicles in protest against scarcity of water. Residents threw stones at vehicles and disrupted traffic for two hours on …
Officials Visit Treatment Plants, Say Haryana Releasing Sufficient Water New Delhi: In the tussle over water between Delhi and Haryana, the latter seems to have done a better job in convincing central officials. Sources in the central government say that based on reports they have received from both states over …
