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Delhi has killed Yamuna: Akhilesh [1]

The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Akhilesh Yadav, has blamed the Delhi Government for the alarming pollution level in the Yamuna upstream of Agra. “Yamuna has been killed by Delhi”, Mr. Yadav said, speaking at a function for releasing the population figures of the Gangetic dolphin.

On the conclusion of the three-day “Save Ganga Save Dolphin” campaign on Sunday, Mr. Yadav expressed happiness that the number of the mammal had gone up from 600 in 2005 to 671 in 2012 in the Ganga in Uttar Pradesh.

Publication Date: 
08/10/2012
Atiq Khan [2]
Hindu (New Delhi) [3]
Tags:
Delhi [4], Yamuna [5], River Pollution [6], Ganga [7], Dolphin [8], Brahmaputra [9], Meghna [10], Agra (D) [11], Allahabad (D) [12], Water Pollution [13]
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