It would take eight more years before Yamuna can be cleaned, declared Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on the floor of the House of Delhi Assembly during the Budget session on Tuesday. The Chief Minister said there is no magic wand to clean Yamuna by 2010 Commonwealth Games.

Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar

NEW DELHI: Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit told the Delhi Assembly on Tuesday that the Yamuna Action Plan I and II have not yielded any tangible result despite crores of rupees having been spent on cleaning the river.

She admitted that the project would take at least seven to eight years to complete.

New Delhi: For all the green concern voiced by the government, the environment sector has got a paltry Rs 129 crore this year

The DJB plans to set up a big sewerage treatment plant for Commonwealth Games 2010.More plants are likely at Delhi Gate, Delhi Cantt, Pappan Kalan and Nilothi.

Greater Dhaka has been a major engine of growth and prosperity in Bangladesh, representing more than 40% of Bangladesh's national GDP. This rapidly growing city of 12 million inhabitants has also emerged as a major hub for over 7000 small and medium scale industries.

Dhakabashi conducted a signature campaign at its office at Hazaribagh in the city yesterday to save the river Buriganga from pollution and encroachment.

Dhakabashi President Md Shukur Salek, Members Md Hatem, Shahin Parvin and Sabina Yasmin spoke on the occasion, says a press release.

MUMBAI: With a rare hope of restoring the marine ecosystem in the `poisonous' Mithi, the city's metropolitan administration now wants the river-turned-nullah's unbearable stink in the BKC area to go.

But this exercise, likely to be implemented after the monsoon, is reportedly aimed at increasing the value of BKC land abutting the river in the real estate market--purely for financial gains.

Green Voice Environmental Technology Engineering, Dhaka Polytechnic Institute unit launched a weeklong signature campaign at the institute yesterday to press home their demands for making the rivers free from encroachment and pollution.

A total of 400 students and teachers of different departments at the institute participated in the campaign.

A new initiative of the Ministry of Environment and Forests for cleaning the Ganga
DR. MANMOHAN SINGH Hon'ble Prime Minister

Manish Sirhindi

Large amounts of industrial pollutants being drained into the Western Yamuna Canal (WYC) here have become a source of misery not only for local residents but also for those living downstream of the canal.