Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Residents Welfare Association Savita Vihar Vs Irrigation & Flood Control Department & Others dated 28/05/2025. The applicant raised the grievance against throwing of construction debris and sewage obstruction in the Ghazipur drain. According to the applicant this drain flows behind …
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday permitted the Delhi government and Delhi Jal Board (DJB) to respond to a report of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) alleging that the interceptor project to stop flow of sewage into Yamuna would put an additional Rs 5,600 crore down the drain. …
SC Settles Dispute: Village Site Neither Riverbed Nor Flood Plain, Behind Embankment TIMES NEWS NETWORK The Supreme Court on Thursday finally put to rest the controversies surrounding the Commonwealth Games Village site. The Village site is located behind an embankment and not on the riverbed or the floodplain as claimed …
The Supreme Court Thursday cleared the decks for the construction of the Commonwealth Games Village on the Yamuna bank. A bench headed by Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan dismissed a petition challenging the ongoing construction. `SITE NEITHER ON RIVERBED NOR FLOODPLAIN, SCIENTISTS' OPINION IGNORED' The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the …
While many low-lying areas were submerged after the heavy showers on Monday, experts say the city would soon return to fighting with dry taps in all likelihood. Reason: there is no provision to collect the rainwater in Yamuna, once Delhi
While Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit claims that Yamuna cannot be cleaned before the Commonwealth Games, it has emerged that the funds for the Yamuna Action Plan
Authority Wants To Use Flood Zone For Industrial, Commercial Activity Neha Lalchandani | TNN New Delhi: With the dust from the mammoth Mayawati memorial being constructed in Noida yet to settle, the Noida Authority has come up with yet another proposal that has raised the hackles of residents. The authority …
Anita Joshua NEW DELHI: The Ganga and the Yamuna are no cleaner today than they were two decades ago, though the government is spending huge amounts on action plans for the rivers, Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh told the Lok Sabha on Friday. Mr. Ramesh was …
Ganga, Yamuna No Cleaner Now Than 20 Years Ago: Ramesh PTI NEW DELHI IN A frank admission, the Centre on Friday said in the Lok Sabha that Ganga and Yamuna were
New Delhi: The lid is finally off the mega UP government project facing Sector 15A of Noida that irked residents because of its encroachment on the Yamuna riverbed and alleged destruction of green areas. Replying to an RTI query, Uttar Pradesh Rajkiya Nirman Nigam Ltd has said that under the …
The consumers are being made to pay for the penalty levied upon Delhi Jal Board (DJB) for non-treating of sewage water. The DJB is charging three paisa per kilolitre water from the consumers. Strangely, consumer is being forced to pay for the failure of Jal Board to treat sewage water. …
Lieutenant-Governor Tejendra Khanna is proposing to convert the 22-kilometre Yamuna riverbank stretch into a biodiversity zone, seen by experts as a radical ecological solution to the dying river. The lieutenant-governor (L-G), also chairperson of the Yamuna Development Authority, has asked the Centre for Environmental Management of Degraded Ecosystems (CEMDE) to …
A presentation of an ethnography of the relationship between urban spaces, new cultures of consumption, the state, and the making of middle class identities in India. Firstly, the discussion explores the making of new urban spaces by focusing upon the Akshardham Temple complex on the banks of the Yamuna river …
The spectre of drought looms large over eight Haryana districts facing acute water shortage. There was shortfall of about 7,000 cusecs of water per day as the supply from the Sutlej and Yamuna canal water schemes has dropped to 50 per cent. While water for irrigation has become scarce in …
TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: A temporary bus depot being planned on the Yamuna riverbed close to the Commonwealth Games Village has met with stiff resistance from certain environment groups. Citing the L-G
It would take eight more years before Yamuna can be cleaned, declared Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on the floor of the House of Delhi Assembly during the Budget session on Tuesday. The Chief Minister said there is no magic wand to clean Yamuna by 2010 Commonwealth Games.
Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar NEW DELHI: Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit told the Delhi Assembly on Tuesday that the Yamuna Action Plan I and II have not yielded any tangible result despite crores of rupees having been spent on cleaning the river. She admitted that the project would take at least seven …
The Delhi government has given the go-ahead for the construction of a Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) bus parking next to the Commonwealth Games Village for 300 buses on the ecologically sensitive and moratorium-bound Yamuna flood plain. While Lieutenant-Governor Tejendra Khanna had earlier ordered a moratorium on any construction activity on …
