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: Taps ran dry in many parts of the city on Thursday, and it could get worse today. The reason: extremely high levels of pollution in the Yamuna, which forced Delhi Jal Board (DJB) to shut two of its water treatment plants on Thursday morning. The 120 million gallons …
J. Venkatesan NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday extended the interim stay of the orders passed by the Delhi High Court stalling constructions in the Commonwealth Games village on the banks of river Yamuna in the Capital for holding the Games in 2010. During
BY MANISH ANAND NEW DELHI The Delhi chief min ister Sheila Dikshit, set to take charge of the capital for a historic third time in a row, made her priorities clear, ranging from the 2010 Commonwealth Games, cleaning of Yamuna to housing for the marginalised people. And for the illegal …
Says New Cabinet Will Focus On Environment Defending the interceptor sewage system as the best method of cleaning the Yamuna, Sheila Dikshit told The Times of India that the earlier technologies under the Yamuna Action Plan, on which crores had been spent, were
Court told Delhi water utility officers THE Delhi High Court has sentenced a former chief executive officer of the Delhi Jal Board and two other officers to two weeks in jail for not repairing sewer lines in the capital and letting the sewage flow into the Yamuna without treatment. The …
Nov. 5: The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the High Court order through which a four-member committee, led by Nobel Prize winner R.K. Pachauri, was constituted to assess the impact on environment due to the construction of Commonwealth Games Village which, environmentalists alleged, was being built on Yamuna river bed …
J. Venkatesan NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday stayed Delhi High Court orders stalling constructions in the upcoming Commonwealth Games Village on the banks of the Yamuna in Delhi for holding the games in 2010. A Bench of Chief Justice K. G. Balakrishnan and Justice P. Sathasivam stayed the …
Detailed project report on the Yamuna Interceptor Sewer Project prepared by EIL.The project will ensure that sewage from various drains that fall directly into the Yamuna, is diverted to the STPs where it will be treated first and then allowed to reach the river. The objectives of the Interceptor Sewerage …
Court ordered a review of threat to it the Delhi High Court refused to stay constructions on the Yamuna floodplains and riverbed on November 3 and ordered setting up an expert committee to evaluate the current and planned constructions for any adverse effects on the river and its ecology. The …
The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in New Delhi has promised to review and modify the BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) corridor project, which it alleges has worsened traffic congestion in parts of the national capital and raised protests from citizens and town planners. In its manifesto for the Assembly election …
Committee Will Decide Fate Of Games Village Ruling out staying ongoing construction of flats for Commonwealth Games in the Capital, Delhi High Court (HC) on Monday flagged its concern on possible ecological damage to Yamuna river and formed a high level committee to gauge the same. The four member committee …
NEW DELHI: Questioning the bona fides of the National Environment Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests and the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) on their shifting stands over the construction of the Commonwealth Games Village along the Yamuna riverbed in East Delhi, the Delhi High Court …
The objectives of the Interceptor Sewerage System Project are to provide a commercially, technically viable and feasible solution on a priority basis that can be provided within a short span of time which is effective in lowering the pollution in Yamuna River and improving water quality making it best fit …
Greater Noida: A revolution of sorts is reportedly unfolding at Gautam Buddh Nagar here, as the Yamuna Expressway Authority (YEA) has started purchasing plots directly from farmers. It made the first purchase on Friday evening. Greater Noida sub-registrar Rajesh Tiwari informs,
SHAHDARA DRAIN: Joint panel to look into feasibility; officials say demand ‘unreasonable’, difficult to implement The Uttar Pradesh government has told Delhi that it does not want its Shahdara drain to flow into Noida. A delegation of senior officials from the UP government, including the chief executive officer (CEO) of …
NEW DELHI: As hundreds of idols of Goddess Durga were immersed into the Yamuna on Vijay Dashmi day, environmentalists and water conservationists dismissed as
By Rashme Sehgal New Delhi, Oct. 7: Delhi Lt. Gov. Tejendra Khanna, chairman, Yamuna River Development Authority, has finally announced a moratorium on future construction along the flood plain of the Yamuna. Mr Khanna announced this decision during the course of a meeting with water activists who are part of …
a landfill and compost plant proposed to come up near the Yamuna at Kuberpur village in Agra came in for criticism at a recent public hearing at Agra Collectorate. Environmentalists and social activists are concerned that incineration of waste at the plant will release toxic pollutants, dioxins and furans, in …
