Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena, on Sunday, set June 30 as the deadline to clean the river Yamuna in National Capital, and said he will have no objection if any Minister wants to take credit for their work.
“River Yamuna will be cleaned in Delhi by June 30. I have no objection if any Minister wants to take credit for our work,” LG VK Saxena said without naming anyone. “The cleaning of Yamuna is going on at a fast pace. Najafgarh drains are being cleaned. 15-16 drains have also been fixed. We will clear the 22 km stretch of Yamuna in Delhi by that time. The work of cleaning the filth on the banks of the Yamuna is also going on in mission mode. We cleaned the Qudsiya Ghat in 15 days,” he said. Previously in March, VK Saxena chaired a meeting to devise ways for the revival of the Najafgarh Lake on the Delhi-Haryana Border, which is pivotal to the overall cleaning of River Yamuna in the national capital, an official release said.
“The major sources of pollution in the Najafgarh Lake, including the huge quantity of domestic and industrial effluent coming from Gurugram and the possible ways to overcome the pollution in the lake and preserve the aquatic life, were discussed threadbare in the meeting that coincided with the World Water Day,” the statement had added. “We are not working for taking credit but trying to provide a good environment to the people of Delhi. Even the Supreme Court has monitored Yamuna cleaning operations for 28 years. I want everyone to work together and clean the Yamuna,” LG told ANI.
The Delhi government have decided to set up an ammonia removal plant to treat polluted Yamuna water coming from Haryana. The decision was taken at a high-level meeting chaired by CM Arvind Kejriwal in March, who gave instructions to set up the plant within six months.