The Union Cabinet Committee on Wednesday approved the ambitious Rs 1,357-crore Yamuna cleaning Interceptor Sewer project of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB). In what is termed as the largest fund approval for Delhi under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), the project was cleared after extensive examination by the ministries concerned.

The Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA) has admitted that the sewage of Chandigarh and Mohali was being discharged into the seasonal N-choe, which originates from Chandigarh and passes through various parts of the city before reaching Mohali.

Chandigarh: As a part of river conservation project, the union ministry of environment and forests on Thursday cleared a proposal for laying sewage disposal pipes, and provision of sewage treatment plants in eight more towns of Punjab. These are Hoshiarpur, Phagwara South, Rajpura, Patran, Lehraghaga, Derabassi, Khanuri and Jalandhar. The project will be taken up at a cost of Rs 465.07 crore.

NEW DELHI: Meant exclusively for the Commonwealth Games Village on the banks of the Yamuna, the one-million-gallon per day water treatment plant and sewage treatment plant are all set for a June inauguration.

Patiala: Aiming at providing clean drinking water to the residents of Patiala city, the city Water Supply and Sewerage Board has prepared a canal water project worth Rs 134 crore. As per project details, big water works would be set up in 75 acres of land.

The government needs to focus on ensuring perennial environmental flow in the Ganga river instead of just setting up huge sewage and industrial effluent treatment plants which have failed to cleanse the river, a Parliamentary panel has said.

KOCHI: The impasse over the allocation of land for the proposed sewerage plant at West Kochi has come to an end with the Greater Cochin Development Authority (GCDA) deciding to hand over five acres of land at Mundamvely for the plant.