New Delhi, March 14: In a fresh bid to revive the dying Yamuna, the Delhi government has come up with a novel proposal. It wants the upper riparian states — Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh — to ensure that the 22-km-long stretch of the river
flowing through Delhi remains pollution-free. It has come up with a draft bill, which it would like Parliament to pass, to ensure this.
The Yamuna River Development Authority, constituted by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and headed by Delhi lieutenant-governor Tejendra Khanna, formulated the draft bill to regulate the release of water into the Yamuna to make it a “running” river instead of a “standing” one as it has been reduced to now.
Manish Anand