Despite lacking a number of deadlines up to now, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal is again once more with yet one more promise to ‘clean Yamuna on a mission mode’. Once once more, Arvind Kejriwal, in a press convention on Thursday, has introduced a 6 level motion plan to scrub the Yamuna earlier than the 2025 Assembly elections. The AAP supremo has assured that he, together with the residents of Delhi, would take a dip within the clear Yamuna river by the following Assembly elections.
For this, his authorities has began work at conflict footing and chalked out a 6 motion level plan, which he has been monitoring personally. It is attention-grabbing that whereas Arvind Kejriwal has been the chief minister of Delhi for nearly 7 years now, he asserted that the Yamuna River can’t be cleaned in 2 days. “It took 70 yrs for river Yamuna to become this dirty, it can’t be cleaned within 2 days. I had promised people in these Delhi polls that it would be cleaned by the next polls. We’ve started work on war-footing. We have 6 action points over it, I’m personally monitoring it”, mentioned the Delhi CM.
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“In the first action plan, we are working on sewer treatment on war-footing. First, new sewer treatment plants are being built. Second, the capacity of existing plants is being increased. Third, the technology of old treatment plants is being changed. “This will increase our sewage treatment capacity from around 600 million gallons of waste water a day to 750 MGD-800 MGD,” Kejriwal mentioned.
He mentioned the wastewater from Delhi’s 4 main drains namely- Najafgarh, Badshahpur, Supplementary and Ghazipur, falling in river Yamuna is being handled in-situ. The Delhi CM added that the wastewater in “jhuggi jhopri” clusters flows via stormwater drains into the Yamuna. These will likely be merged into the sewer community.
The AAP supremo mentioned that his authorities would start a crackdown on the industries discharging industrial waste into the Yamuna. He promised that his authorities will be sure that industrial wastewater is correctly handled earlier than it flows out of the factories.
He additional mentioned that in some areas individuals haven’t taken sewer connections. The AAP authorities in Delhi has determined to supply family connections in areas which have a sewer community. “Earlier, the consumers had to get the connection themselves. Now, we’ve decided to install sewer connections in such areas at nominal charges,” mentioned Kejriwal.
The sixth step he mentioned is the desilting and rehabilitation of sewers.
Arvind Kejriwal authorities sprays water in Yamuna to dissipate poisonous foam, builds fence to cease it
Prior to this, Delhi’s Arvind Kejriwal authorities had provide you with fairly a logic-defying method to dissipate the poisonous foam within the river Yamuna. The AAP authorities had deployed boats and deputed some workers to sprinkle water on the Yamuna to dissipate the poisonous foam. Social media was awash with photos and movies displaying Delhi Jal Board workers sprinkling water on the river Yamuna, which is filled with water itself, to eliminate the poisonous foam. Along with that, the Delhi authorities had additionally put in fences produced from bamboo sticks with giant holes as barricades to cease the froth.
The AAP Mantra- ‘extend deadlines’ to sort out the air-water disaster in Delhi
The air-water disaster is one thing that isn’t new within the nationwide capital and all that the Kejriwal authorities has finished up to now to sort out the disaster is ‘extend the deadline.’ The collection of issuing dates after dates for cleansing the closely polluted river the Yamuna by the Delhi authorities has been occurring for the reason that yr 2015.
Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in 2015 had promised to scrub the Yamuna river inside 5 years (by 2020). He had made this promise standing on the banks of the river alongside together with his cabinet colleagues and senior Delhi authorities officers, who had taken half within the first ‘Yamuna Aarti’ held on the Kudesia Ghat.
As per a 2015 Mint report, Kejriwal had boasted, “We will revive Yamuna within five years,” including that the federal government has a plan to cease the circulation of drains within the Yamuna within the subsequent 1-2 years.
Near seven years after AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal first promised to scrub the Yamuna, the river continues to be engulfed in poisonous foam so far.