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Environmental group raises concern over 'excessive, prolonged spraying of defoamers in Yamuna', calls for action against DJB
December 25, 2025 2:50 am
In its complaint to the DPCC, Earth Warrior claimed that large quantities of defoamers were sprayed without prior environmental clearance, scientific risk assessment, or publicly disclosed dosage protocols.
BJP says Yamuna clean enough for ritual sipping, AAP says leaders trying to fool public
October 24, 2025 3:15 am
Referring to his hospitalisation last year, Sachdeva said, “The world witnessed that the Yamuna had become like a filthy drain.” He blamed the previous AAP government for carrying out “loot in the name of cleaning the Yamuna”.
In a first, Haryana releases more water to clean Yamuna in Delhi for Chhath Puja
October 23, 2025 9:52 am
It has also sharply reduced the water flow into Western and Eastern Yamuna Canals
Plan prepared to clean Yamuna up to Prayagraj in 7 months: Amit Shah
October 10, 2025 3:12 am
He was speaking after inaugurating and laying the foundation stone for development projects worth around Rs 1,816 crore of the Delhi government in the Capital. Chief Minister Rekha Gupta also attended the event.
‘Delhi has to dream bigger... for the first time, Centre, State and MCD have a common goal’: CM Rekha Gupta at Express Adda
July 05, 2025 8:07 am
Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta on the ‘triple-engine government’ in Delhi, being a woman politician with no political background, her big plans for the Yamuna and mitigating the Capital’s air pollution. She was in conversation with Vandita Mishra, National Opinion Editor, The Indian Express
Yamuna clean-up op: Delhi govt to map drains, plug sewage leaks
June 04, 2025 3:41 am
Officials said the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) has asked to prepare a plan and hire an agency to identify gaps and disconnected drains and sewers and assess the sewerage zones
Need a holistic approach to clean Yamuna with a 20-year vision: Amit Shah
May 23, 2025 3:43 am
Shah’s direction came at a high-level meeting attended by Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Manohar Lal, Union Jal Shakti Minister C R Patil, Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, and other senior officials.
Cleaning Yamuna will require more than money, it will need a plan: CSE
May 09, 2025 3:13 am
Maintaining that there is a need to intercept the sewage and not release it back into the drains that carry untreated sewage, the report stated that it must also be ensured that the 22 drains opening to Yamuna are releasing only clean water.
40 STPs, extension of sewer lines: DJB’s Rs 3,104-cr proposal to clean Yamuna
May 08, 2025 4:13 am
The proposal, discussed in a recent meeting of the Finance Department’s Expenditure Finance Committee (EFC), is aimed at covering 416 unauthorised colonies and 115 villages across seven Assembly constituencies, benefitting approximately 35 lakh residents.
PWD minister goes on boat ride along Yamuna, says 1,300 MT of garbage removed in 10 days
March 06, 2025 4:35 am
Cleaning the Yamuna was one of the key promises made by the BJP in the recently concluded Delhi polls. A four-pronged strategy is at the heart of a plan, rolled out by L-G V K Saxena, to clean Yamuna in three years.
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