The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
For the first time in three years, Delhi government’s budget for the health sector shifted its focus from Public Private Partnership (PPP) to primary and allied medical services. The budget allocation for health was increased to 14.16 percent of the total outlay. From the current financial year, Delhi will roll …
The Delhi high court on Tuesday warned civic authorities it would summon the city’s environment secretary if its directions on construction of special permanent enclosures on the Yamuna bank are not taken seriously. Justice G P Mittal pulled up the civic authorities for failure to build the enclosures for immersion …
Rise in Delhi's sewage treatment capacity to realise goal: Jal Board The Delhi Jal Board has begun the New Year on an optimistic note. The water utility claims that by the end of 2012 the Yamuna's filthy state will have changed and Delhi will have a clean river. The Jal …
India is getting assistance from Japan for a programme to cleanse the Yamuna river, Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan said Monday. In a written reply to a query in the Lok Sabha, Natarajan informed the lower house that the Japanese government would provide India a loan of over 32 billion yen …
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Thursday gave the green signal to the proposed third phase of cleaning the 22-km stretch of Yamuna river passing through Delhi. The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)-assisted Yamuna Action Plan (YAP) Phase III project in Delhi was approved under the Centrally sponsored scheme …
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 …
New Delhi: After Durga was immersed with festive fervour, devotees bent their heads reverentially for the sprinkling of ‘holy water’. But they were in fact breathing stench and getting sprayed with drain water. The Yamuna seemed like a dirty nullah choked and frothing with filth and scum. And what’s shocking, …
Sees Pollution Continuing With Delay In Interceptor Sewage Project Neha Lalchandani TNN New Delhi: Any hope of seeing a clean Yamuna in the near future was dispelled on Sunday by environment minister Jairam Ramesh, who said such a situation was not possible before at least the end of 2015. The …
Work on a Rs 1,357.71-crore plan to lay an interceptor sewer along three major drains to control pollution in the Yamuna is expected to start on June this year and will be completed in 36 months, a Delhi Jal Board (DJB) affidavit in the Supreme Court said on Monday. The …
New Delhi: An interactive model of a house with details of which activity consumes how much water and a machine that will tell you how much of your body weight comprises of water are just some of the exhibits at the water and waste water gallery that was launched at …
Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar NEW DELHI: The Environment Committee of the Delhi Assembly has expressed apprehension over the preparations made by various departments such as the Delhi Jal Board, Irrigation and Flood Control and Municipal Corporation of Delhi for the monsoon and declared that it would undertake surprise visits to see …
Having collected Rs 625 crore as revenue in the last fiscal, the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) on Thursday approved its total annual budget of Rs 1,624.37 crore for 2010-11. The revenue collections of the DJB have increased by Rs 180 crore as compared to 2008-09.
New Delhi: With the Delhi government setting aside Rs 1,500 crore for water and sanitation in its budget, Delhiites can expect an improved water supply in the coming year. However, the main project that promises water to Delhi and on which the government has spent nearly Rs 315 crore, continues …
NEW DELHI, March 14: In a fresh bid to revive the dying river Yamuna in the capital, Delhi government has now come up with a somewhat unprecedented proposal. It wants the upper riparian states too to take responsibility for ensuring that the 22-km long stretch of the river flowing through …
After working towards cleaning the Yamuna since 1993 in two phases of the Yamuna Action Plan, the government is now proposing Yamuna Action Plan-III (YAP-III), seeking a loan of Rs 833 crore from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Meanwhile, Delhi Jal Board (DJB)
A group of activists led by Magsaysay award winner Rajendra Singh met Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh today and demanded that the government should do more for the effective implementation of the New Ganga and Yamuna Action Plans. The All Ganga Yamuna Panchayat presented a charter of demands to the …
