While Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit claims that Yamuna cannot be cleaned before the Commonwealth Games, it has emerged that the funds for the Yamuna Action Plan

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Anita Joshua

NEW DELHI: The Ganga and the Yamuna are no cleaner today than they were two decades ago, though the government is spending huge amounts on action plans for the rivers, Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh told the Lok Sabha on Friday.

The Lieutenant-Governor

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IN A frank admission, the Centre on Friday said in the Lok Sabha that Ganga and Yamuna were

New Delhi: The lid is finally off the mega UP government project facing Sector 15A of Noida that irked residents because of its encroachment on the Yamuna riverbed and alleged destruction of green areas.

The consumers are being made to pay for the penalty levied upon Delhi Jal Board (DJB) for non-treating of sewage water. The DJB is charging three paisa per kilolitre water from the consumers. Strangely, consumer is being forced to pay for the failure of Jal Board to treat sewage water. The big question is why the consumer should pay for failure of DJB in the Capital.

Lieutenant-Governor Tejendra Khanna is proposing to convert the 22-kilometre Yamuna riverbank stretch into a biodiversity zone, seen by experts as a radical ecological solution to the dying river.

The spectre of drought looms large over eight Haryana districts facing acute water shortage.

There was shortfall of about 7,000 cusecs of water per day as the supply from the Sutlej and Yamuna canal water schemes has dropped to 50 per cent.