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: Continuing its efforts backed by aid money to clean the Yamuna, the Delhi Jal Board on Thursday initiated another plan to try and save the dying river. This time round the Board has roped in six non-government agencies to involve the masses in the cleaning operation. The Board …
After spending crores of rupees on cleansing the Yamuna passing through Delhi, the government on Thursday launched yet another programme of public awareness involving schoolchildren and NGOs. The idea, officials say, is to reach out to and involve the citizens of Delhi in the cleaning the Yamuna.
RASHME SEHGAL The recent Supreme Court judgment giving a go ahead to the construction of the Games Village has opened the doors for further construction along the Yamuna bank. The Delhi Master Plan already spells out new land uses along the banks which is expected to lead to eventual canalisation …
The CSE news report on proposal of Noida Development Authority to construct multi storey buildings on a site that is part of the Yamuna flood plain and is defined as agricultural land. It is feared that, this will reduce groundwater recharge & also disturb biodiversity of the Okhla bird sanctuary. …
A report filed by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) in the Supreme Court has heavily criticised the Delhi Jal Board's plan to install interceptors for preventing pollution in the Yamuna. The report found lacunae not only in terms of quality assurance but also the fact that the project, …
New Delhi: Yamuna Satyagraha would have completed two years of its protests against construction on the riverbed. After the SC judgment on Thursday, the events were cancelled. Environmentalists were left aghast at the court
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 …
