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With the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government promising to enforce a six-point action plan to clean Yamuna to transform Delhi into a “clean, beautiful and modern city” by 2025, and several initiatives being taken to attempt the same, we take a look at the relationship the city shares with the river.
During the fifth meeting of the High-Level Committee for rejuvenation of the Yamuna, chaired by Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena, progress on work so far was reviewed. The committee was constituted on the orders of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in January.
Delhi Lieutenant Governor (L-G) Vinai Kumar Saxena has issued an order to identify the officers responsible and take strict action for delay in the upgradation/rehabilitation of Rithala Phase-I sewage treatment plant (STP) – for five years, that has resulted in the discharge of a massive 37,000