Work on the 20 million gallon per day capacity plant will be completed within 21 months

Project to improve substantially water supply in many colonies

Scheme of payment of water bills through 92 post offices to continue

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Jal Board on Wednesday gave its approval for construction of a 20 million gallon per day (MGD) capacity water treatment plant at Okhla that would be completed within 21 months from the award of work. The decision was taken at a meeting of the Board presided over by its chairperson, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.

Bid to make the Capital a water-efficient city

Joint task force to take policy decisions

Bureau of Water Efficiency planned

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Jal Board signed a memorandum of understanding with the Confederation of Indian Industry in the presence of Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit earlier this week with the aim of transforming Delhi into a water-efficient city.

According to Delhi Jal Board officials, a joint task force has been constituted along with the CII to work together on various water-related issues.

Biking along the Yamuna from Delhi to Agra, ravleen kaur hears constant calls for saving the river, but witnesses little action. Photographs by vaibhav raghunandan The roaring of motorcycles shattered the early morning calm on the Yamuna floodplains in Delhi. On World Environment Day on June 5, a group of professionals, farmers, activists and journalists gathered for a bike rally along the

Successful, measurable steps have been taken to promote the concepts of

If anybody needed a reminder of how crippling bureaucracy can be, consider the campaign to clean up the sacred Yamuna River in Delhi. The river oozes through town like a putrid ribbon of black sludge. Its level of fecal bacteria is 10,000 times higher than what's deemed safe for bathing.

Rajahmundry, June 30: The people of Rajahmundry are going to get major relief from the overflowing and stinking drains and inundation of several low-lying areas during rains as the civic authorities are going to take up an underground and storm water drainage network in the municipal limits.

Urge Centre, State to find an alternative to sand in construction industry "Regulate inter-country, inter-State and inter-district transport of sand' "Construction of reservoirs across the Ponnai in Andhra Pradesh will hit Vellore'

The Centre has approved projects for development of Fateh Sagar Lake in Udaipur at a cost of Rs.42 crore and improvement of the Walled City area in Jaipur at a cost of Rs.29 crore. The Centre will bear 70 per cent of the cost of the lake plan under the National Lake Conservation Project.