Last updated: 18 May 2024
By Dec 2023, Delhi has planned to achieve this milestone of 813 MGD of sewage treatment capacity, targeted to increase to to 964.5MGD by June 2024
-- Plans derailed after Services control by BJP
AAP has made a commitment to clean the Yamuna to bathing standards by February 2025[1]
-- Percentage of total sewerage that goes to river Yamuna untreated reduced from 26% in 2021 to 24.5% in 2022[2]
-- Average removal of sewage solids in pollution load into Yamuna increased from 36.04 TPD(Tons per day) to 40.86 TPD[2:1]
Total 22 Drains outfall into river Yamuna including waste water coming into Najafgarh Drain from Haryana and coming into Shahdara Drain from Uttar Pradesh[3]
-- 10 Drains have been tapped as of November 2023
-- 02 Drains are partially tapped
-- 02 Large Drains (Najafgarh & Shahdara) substatially tapped
April 2022: 405 out of 453 sub-drains outfalling into Najafgarh Supplementary and Shahdara drain are tapped[2:2]
These will be created at 10 places in Najafgarh/Supplementary and Shahdara drains[4]
In-situ methods include:
Update: March 2024
No. | Colonies | Total Colonies | Colonies with Sewerage System |
---|---|---|---|
1. | Un-authorized Regularized Colonies | 567 | 557 |
2. | Urban Village | 135 | 130 |
3. | Rural Village | 219 | 55 |
4. | Un-authorized Colonies | 1799 | 783 |
5. | Resettlement Colonies | 44 | 44 |
Yamuna Action Plan 1993 (YAP) to restore the river with a bilateral project between governments of India and Japan, ₹1,500 crore was spent on the YAP, and a plan of ₹1,174 crore was redrawn, but the scheme failed [8]
References:
https://news.abplive.com/delhi-ncr/delhi-several-major-yamuna-cleaning-projects-running-behind-schedule-in-delhi-says-report-1637017#:~:text=The Delhi government has made,than five milligrams per litre. ↩︎
https://ddc.delhi.gov.in/sites/default/files/multimedia-assets/outcome_budget_2022-23.pdf ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
https://delhiplanning.delhi.gov.in/sites/default/files/Planning/chapter_8.pdf ↩︎
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/delhi/story/delhi-government-5-point-action-plan-to-clean-yamuna-by-2025-2357222-2023-04-07 ↩︎ ↩︎
https://delhiplanning.delhi.gov.in/sites/default/files/Planning/chapter_13.pdf ↩︎
https://www.indiatimes.com/explainers/news/sources-of-pollution-in-yamuna-567324.html ↩︎
https://www.cityspidey.com/news/20134/delhi-jal-board-to-upgrade-all-its-stps-and-increase-their-capacity-in-18-months ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
https://www.dnaindia.com/delhi/report-rs-1515-crore-spent-on-yamuna-conservation-minister-satya-pal-singh-2698588 ↩︎