On Tuesday, the National Green Tribunal took up with Haryana on the efforts being made by the State towards the Tribunal’s ambitious “Maily Se Nirmal Yamuna Revitalization Project 2017”.
The Haryana government made a string of promises to the Tribunal including minimum discharge of pollutants into Yamuna by 2017, setting up of treatment plants at all points, blocking all discharge into the Najafgarh drain and maintaining discharge of ten cumecs of water at Hathnikund.
“We have also been informed on behalf of the State of Haryana on instruction of senior officers that by 2017, all the CETPs (Common Effluent Treatment Plants) and STPs (Sewage Treatment Plants) would be established properly, water would be recycled for minimum discharge into the river Yamuna which will not contain any pollutants. They shall also identify adequacy of each of the CETP and STP to handle effluent load,” noted a Bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar.
The State assured the Bench that while ten cumecs water would be continued to be discharged at Hathnikund, there may be some difficulty in the lean season to maintain 10 cumecs flow in the river from Hathnikund to Wazirabad.
It also stated that by August it would ensure that all discharge into the Najafgarh drain is blocked.
Meanwhile, the Haryana government informed that tenders have already been invited for construction of CETPs/ STPs at the Leg 2 where it joins Najafgarh drain. There are three drains in Haryana which eventually join the Najafgarh drain.
“As far as setting up of CETPs and STPs, to ensure that either they have no discharge by recycling of the treated water or wherever it is necessary, the release from CETPs and STPs would be strictly in accordance with the prescribed parameters. This, it said, would be from all the five points in the State of Haryana where the main drain joins river Yamuna that is at Yamuna Nagar-Jagadari, Karnal, Panipat, Sonepat-Samalkha and Kundli,” the Bench was informed.
The matter is being taken up for day-to-day hearing.
The DMRC on Tuesday informed that the debris lying from Mayur Vihar to Sarai Kale Khan stretch and places like Lalita Park and near old Pontoon Road does not belong to it but to the East Delhi Municipal Corporation.
