NEW DELHI: Continuing its efforts backed by aid money to clean the Yamuna, the Delhi Jal Board on Thursday initiated another plan to try and save the dying river. This time round the Board has roped in six non-government agencies to involve the masses in the cleaning operation.

After spending crores of rupees on cleansing the Yamuna passing through Delhi, the government on Thursday launched yet another programme of public awareness involving schoolchildren and NGOs. The idea, officials say, is to reach out to and involve the citizens of Delhi in the cleaning the Yamuna.

RASHME SEHGAL
The recent Supreme Court judgment giving a go ahead to the construction of the Games Village has opened the doors for further construction along the Yamuna bank.

The Delhi Master Plan already spells out new land uses along the banks which is expected to lead to eventual canalisation of the river fear environmentalists.

A report filed by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) in the Supreme Court has heavily criticised the Delhi Jal Board's plan to install interceptors for preventing pollution in the Yamuna.

New Delhi: Yamuna Satyagraha would have completed two years of its protests against construction on the riverbed. After the SC judgment on Thursday, the events were cancelled. Environmentalists were left aghast at the court

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday permitted the Delhi government and Delhi Jal Board (DJB) to respond to a report of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) alleging that the interceptor project to stop flow of sewage into Yamuna would put an additional Rs 5,600 crore down the drain.

SC Settles Dispute: Village Site Neither Riverbed Nor Flood Plain, Behind Embankment
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Smriti Kak Ramachandran

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court

The Supreme Court Thursday cleared the decks for the construction of the Commonwealth Games Village on the Yamuna bank. A bench headed by Chief Justice K.G.
Balakrishnan dismissed a petition challenging the ongoing construction.

`SITE NEITHER ON RIVERBED NOR FLOODPLAIN, SCIENTISTS' OPINION IGNORED'