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 …
The top layer of accumulated sand washed down by floods over millions of years, makes river floodplains into giant aquifers. We propose a scheme for the natural storage of excess monsoon river-water discharge in the extensive and deep sand top layer of the floodplain of the river. The excess monsoon …
New Delhi: Under the Yamuna Action Plan, about Rs 1,500 crore has been spent so far on cleaning the river and another project worth Rs 4,000 crore is ready to take off. This has, however, made little difference to the state of the river. Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit recently observed …
DMRC chief E Sreedharan has pricked the conscience of the city for abusing the river that is its lifeline. But his proposal for building retaining walls on both the banks and developing the low-lying areas has not met with approval from experts TIMES NEWS NETWORK DMRC chief E Sreedharan
Dr E Sreedharan, MD of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, says a handful of environmentalists are coming in the way of saving the river and calls for setting up of an SPV to do the job When the members of the British parliament sat in the House of Commons on a …
NEW DELHI: While constructing the Yamuna Bank station on the river bed, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation had taken into account all environmental concerns. According to DMRC, the Central Water and Power Research Station, Pune, conducted a study and the Yamuna Standing Committee gave clearance after which construction was under …
While the Delhi government had been debating on what needs to be done to clean the river, the pollution levels have only worsened. In its book Sewage Canal: How to Clean the Yamuna, published in 2007, the Centre for Science and Environment reported that the Delhi stretch of the river …
An analytical review of the interceptor plan for cleaning Yamuna. CSE has closely scrutinised the interceptor plan and found this hardware plan to be a complete waste of money. The river will continue to remain dead despite the massive investments planned during 2009-2012. he interceptor project is projected by the …
Residents File PIL Against Memorial Megha Suri & Neha Lalchandani Noida: When the Mayawati government started building a wall along four adjacent parks next to the Yamuna riverbed opposite Sectors 14-A and 15-A early last year, residents had thought it was just meant to protect the area. The parks, however, …
Members Allege DDA Not Sticking To Plan, Ruining Greenery TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: Another Commonwealth Games project is in trouble over environmental concerns. Members of DDA
LUCKNOW: It is globally known for being the city where one of the seven wonders of the world, Taj is situated. But what has Agra to do with Aaloo (Potato)? A lot, according to a study conducted by the marketing department of Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIM-L). The tuber, …
Yamunanagar: People of the state are likely to face a shortage of sand, grit and stones for the next two months as the district administration has ordered the closure of mining in Yamuna and seasonal rivulets and work at 250 stone crushers has also come to a halt in the …
The city of Delhi gets a lot of rain every year, more than sufficient for its needs, but it does not use that rainwater. The city gets huge quantity of water from dams and rivers from long distances, equal to one of the highest quantity of water in the nation …
Augmentation of the existing capacity of sewerage networks in the Capital Smriti Kak Ramachandran NEW DELHI: Even as the Delhi Jal Board is gearing up to get its ambitious project to resuscitate the Yamuna by constructing interceptor sewers off the ground, work related to augmentation of the existing capacity of …
