During the visit and review, he held a detailed meeting with officials on the cleaning of major drains, monitoring of the Yamuna river’s water level, and flood management strategies to prevent untoward situations.
Eighteen-year-old Muskan had gone to bathe in the river with her younger sisters Sandhya and Divya, cousin Naina, aunt's sister Sonam, and Suhani.
In a historic step towards making the Yamuna River clean and free-flowing, Delhi has made a significant advancement in sewage treatment.
For cleaning River Yamuna and improving other facilities in the water and sanitation sector, the Delhi government will spend Rs 9,000 crore, as announced in the budget.
Delhi Congress chief Devender Yadav on Wednesday took a jibe at the BJP government after it signed an MoU for ferry services and cruise tourism on the Yamuna, saying the ruling dispensation should first take effective steps to clean-up the “polluted” river.
Sachdeva criticized the Delhi Chief Minister's recent directive from November 4, which ordered officials to continue their work until the last moment, calling it "absurd."
After taking a dip in the Yamuna to expose the pollution level in the river amid the pollution crisis in the capital, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Delhi unit Chief Virendra Sachdeva was hospitalized on Saturday morning owing to health related issues.
Responding to Atishi's blame on Haryana and Uttar Pradesh for rising pollution levels in Yamuna, Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor said on Wednesday that the Delhi chief minister should visit Palla village located on the city's border with Haryana to witness clean water flowing from the neighboring state into the city.
Lieutenant Governor of Delhi Vinai Kumar Saxena on Tuesday took a jibe at the Aam Aadmi Party government over the sorry state of river Yamuna.
He noted that the AAP government has been consistently pointing fingers at others to hide its own shortcomings rather than acknowledging them.
