The Delhi government will make all the sewage treatment plants in the city, including six that are being newly set up, fully functional to completely check the flow of sewage and industrial effluents into the Yamuna in the next two years, and clean the river by December 2027, Additional Chief Secretary Navin Chaudhary said on Monday. Pics/Pallav Paliwal
Updated on : 17 February,2025 10:02 PM IST | Compiled by : Asif Ali Sayed
The entire 57-km stretch of the Yamuna in Delhi, from Haryana where it enters the city to the Uttar Pradesh border where it exits, will be cleaned, the officials said. Pics/Pallav Paliwal
During a visit to oversee the work to clean the Yamuna, Chaudhary, who is in charge of the irrigation and flood control department, said commitments have been made at the highest level for cleaning the river in three years
Addressing a celebratory gathering over the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) victory in the recent Delhi Assembly polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said the Yamuna, suffering from heavy pollution, will be cleaned no matter how much effort or time it takes
Chaudhary said three-four things, including the removal of trash and weed, and checking the flow of untreated sewage and industrial effluents through fully-functional sewage treatment plants (STPs), need to be ensured to clean the river
"Seven machines have been deployed to remove solid waste, water hyacinth and weed from the river and this work will go on for the next few months," he said
Parallelly, the target is to modernise and reboot around a dozen STPs and complete the construction of six such plants by the end of 2026, he told reporters
