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 Urban Shelter Improvement Board on Monday approved an action plan to make Delhi a slum free city by 2015 and decided to take up phase-wise relocation of a large number of clusters. It also announced the decision to allot 1,400 flats in January as part of the first …
Complaints by consumers over poor quality water have been substantiated by Delhi Jal Board’s (DJB) vigilance department. It has issued a chargesheet against six employees for a major fraud in the procurement of alum, a chemical used for treating water, which it discovered during a raid in 2010. Officials found …
The central government today approved the Rs 1,656-crore phase-III of Yamuna Action Plan (YAP) for Delhi under which it is proposed to rehabilitate damaged trunk sewers to maximise use of sewage treatment plants (STPs) in Okhla, Kondli and Rithala, apart from construction of a new STP at Okhla. The Cabinet …
Aims to reduce revenue losses, improve water supply The Delhi Jal Board's ambitious plan to outsource water distribution and revenue collection on a pilot basis in three areas based on a public-private partnership basis has been accorded administrative approval. At a Jal Board meeting chaired by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit …
The Delhi Jal Board’s (DJB) meeting chaired by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Monday, gave the green signal for the Board’s ambitious project to involve private players for better management and distribution of water on a pilot basis. Earlier in June this year, the Empowered Committee —set up by the …
Sheila writes to Haryana to resume work on Munak Delhi has sent yet another reminder to Haryana asking it to complete work on the long-pending Munak Canal. A simmering issue between the two States, the canal has been delayed for a long time for various reasons, mostly to do with …
The Capital will soon get its first combined bio-gas plant that will generate enough gas to fuel 120 city buses. A memorandum of understanding has been signed between the Delhi Government and the Government of Sweden for production of compressed natural gas fuel using waste through modern bio-gas technology. On …
Now, waste will be used to produce CNG as per a joint initiative by the Sweden government and the ministry of new and renewable energy. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) in this regard was signed today between the Delhi Jal Board (DJB), Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL) and KG Renewable Ltd …
Raw industrial waste killing Yamuna, corroding sewer lines Untreated effluents from industries making their way into the sewers and eventually reaching the Yamuna are not only killing the river but are also said to be behind the rapid corrosion of the city's sewer lines. The Delhi Jal Board, which is …
After Union Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath slammed Delhi’s Master Plan-2021 as disconnected from ground realities and in need for revision, officials behind the Water Master Plan for Delhi-2021 are in a quandary over issues like adequate water supply and population density in the coming years. “If the MPD-21 is …
New Delhi: Delhi government’s prestigious waste-to-energy project at Okhla has hit a roadblock. MCD has turned down the proposal to construct an alternate route to the plant from Kalindi Kunj via Jasola. The agency arrived at the decision at a meeting held two days ago after residents and MCD councillors …
Consumers will no longer have to wait endlessly or run from one office desk to another to resolve pending issues including billing disputes. The Delhi Jal Board has come out with a new scheme to address concerns in a time-bound manner. Starting November, all Joint Directors will have to be …
With water bills suddenly jumping nearly 10 times despite no increase in consumption, several East Delhi residents' welfare associations have decided not to pay their bills for this cycle as a mark of protest against the inflated billing. Delhi East RWA Federation president Anil Bajpai said: “We are still coping …
Has installed 90 tube-wells supplying water for about 25 lakh people in the Palla floodplains Mandated to carry out the task of supplying water to the burgeoning city, the Delhi Jal Board has now decided to join the ongoing campaign to protect the floodplains which are an important groundwater recharge …
Delhi wants Haryana to release more water at Tajewala for its use or ensure that the entire quantum is supplied right up to its water treatment plants within the city limits. The Delhi Jal Board has written to the Upper Yamuna River Board (UYRB) suggesting that Haryana should either be …
Delhi must install water regulating agency, cut down demand and use treated water: Experts If Delhi wants to usher in change and manage the water sector better, it will have to “de-politicise” the Delhi Jal Board, re-assess the per capita allocation of water, correct the pricing of water and tweak …
Delhi’s water sector is likely to undergo massive changes with the introduction of several legal reforms. Delhi Jal Board CEO Ramesh Negi on Friday said if the city’s water demands are to be met, preservation and reuse of water are a must and “effective legislation could be used after suitably …
The independent body will streamline water management With an eye on reforms, Delhi is all set to introduce a regulator for the water sector as well. On Thursday Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said her Government is keen to introduce a regulator for the water sector on the lines of the …
Even as the Delhi government is bringing about major reforms in the water sector, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Thursday said public private partnership was a key to all reforms. She, however, justified the “profit motive” apprehensions of involving the private sector by announcing that her government would soon set …
New Delhi: Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) buses will soon be running on fuel derived from vegetable waste and sludge from treated sewage. The Centre has struck a deal with the Swedish government to set up a compressed biofuel plant at Delhi Jal Board’s Keshopur sewage treatment plant (STP). The fuel …
