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 …
New Delhi: After a delay of some years, the controversial groundwater Bill is finally ready to be presented to the Delhi cabinet. Government sources say the draft is likely to be tabled in the monsoon session of the Delhi assembly and, if passed, will make groundwater a chargeable asset in …
The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) on Wednesday received an additional Rs 400 crore in its pocket, with eyes on big investments in constructing new and rehabilitating the existing sewerage network in the city. The Delhi government has approved a total budget outlay of Rs 3,800 crore for 2012-12 for the …
New Delhi: While the Central government is working on strengthening the existing Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrine Prohibition Act,1993, seeking to ensure rehabilitation of those engaged in such dehumanizing labour, activists say that thousands of manhole workers continue to work in inhuman conditions. MCD, DJB and …
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notices to the Union Ministry for Environment & Forests, the Central Pollution Control Board and the Delhi Jal Boad on a petition by a social activist alleging that the release of effluents from the Capital's sewage treatment plants into water bodies was polluting …
‘Everybody, irrespective of where they are living should be given water to drink and for non-potable uses as well' In the densely populated Sangam Vihar, water and its limited supply is often the reason for skirmishes between neighbours and the cause for street fights. In the absence of a well …
New Delhi: Chandrawal and Wazirabad water treatment plants were shut for production in the early hours of Tuesday due to a high level of pollution in the water. A rise in the level of ammonia from a permissible 0.5 mg to 1 mg prompted Delhi Jal Board to ask residents …
New Delhi: Residents in large parts of the city have been flooded with inflated water bills. Take the case of Mayur Vihar resident Parbha Madan. She received a bill of Rs 987 calculated over a period of four months last year; but this time, for the corresponding period, a bill …
Having signed an MoU with the Delhi Government for setting up India’s first Compressed Biogas (CBG) plant to convert waste into CNG, Sweden is likely to sign similar agreements with two more cities, according to Mr Lars Olof Lindgren, Sweden’s Ambassador to India. Mr Lindgren said the Scandinavian country may …
Due to closure of one treatment plant for maintenance and less release of water from Haryana Large parts of the Capital have been facing water shortage for the past two days. While the Delhi Jal Board that supplies water to the city said that it would be resumed by Friday …
New Delhi: Irrigation needs in Haryana left the capital high and dry after the state reduced the water flow in the Yamuna at Tajewala Barrage. While several parts of the city did not receive water at all, the other areas faced a disrupted supply over Thursday and Friday. Supply to …
AT THE crack of dawn, the view from atop the 22-metre tall garbage heap in Bhalswa is oddly beautiful. As the pungent smell of methane wafts through the air, the sight of hundreds of ragpickers mechanically sorting through 2,200 tonnes of garbage may seem mesmerising. Pools of black water surrounding …
Water supply in large parts of the national Capital has been affected because of a dip in the supply from two of the city's water treatment plants. The Delhi Jal Board has complained that water supply at the Wazirabad and Chandrawal treatment plants has been affected by more than 10 …
One of the seven ancient cities that make up the present State of Delhi, Mehrauli – which was once the Capital of the Mamluk or slave dynasty of Delhi – has over the years come to be seen as a semi-arid region due to acute paucity of water in the …
New Delhi: The Delhi high court has asked the Delhi Jal Board to place before it the rules relating to installation fee and rent payable for water meters. Justice Hima Kohli, in a recent order, asked the board to place the rules and regulations before it and in case DJB …
At present, DJB tankers provide water in Delhi slums. The problem of water shortage in city slums could find an answer in ‘pay-and-use’ water ATMs scheme, which the Delhi government is studying at present. According to the proposal (Newsline has a copy), the water will be filtered at a centrally …
Two Ministers get additional grant for their constituencies The additional grant of several crores of rupees to two Delhi Ministers, Raj Kumar Chauhan and Arvinder Singh Lovely, and another Congress MLA, Naseeb Singh, has caught the fancy of several other legislators in the Assembly who now also want additional money …
The Delhi Jal Board has been given the go-ahead to expand its sewerage system in the city. At a Jal Board meeting chaired by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Thursday, several key projects were discussed and approved. To lay a sewer network in the non-sewer areas of Delhi and trap …
Rise in Delhi's sewage treatment capacity to realise goal: Jal Board The Delhi Jal Board has begun the New Year on an optimistic note. The water utility claims that by the end of 2012 the Yamuna's filthy state will have changed and Delhi will have a clean river. The Jal …
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Thursday launched the Delhi Jal Board’s ambitious water pollution abatement project in Nangloi to clean up the Yamuna within three years. The interceptor sewer project aims to lay 60-km sewers parallel to Delhi’s three major drains — Najafgarh, Shahdara and Supplementary — at a depth …
New Delhi: The ambitious interceptor sewage project that is being pitched as the ultimate solution to the Yamuna’s filth was finally inaugurated on Thursday. Work is expected to begin on Friday but the system, that entails construction of parallel channels along the three main drains in the city – Najafgarh, …
