Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a high-level assembly on the rejuvenation of the Yamuna with Union house minister Amit Shah, Union Jal Shakti minister CR Patil, Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta, and senior officers from the Centre and the Delhi authorities at his residence at 7, Lok Kalyan Marg, officers stated on Thursday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi chairs the assembly on the rejuvenation of the Yamuna at his residence in New Delhi on Thursday. (Delhi govt)
Widespread public participation in cleansing the river, using real-time information and house expertise to trace drain flows, common evaluation of sewage therapy crops, and the creation of a corpus for the river have been among the many concepts mentioned in the course of the assembly held on Wednesday, the officers cited above stated.
Wednesday’s high-level assembly got here a day after the Delhi authorities’s expenditure and finance committee, headed by chief minister Rekha Gupta, authorized the organising of 27 decentralised sewage therapy crops (D-STPs), associated services, and infrastructure at a price of ₹3,140 crore for cleansing the Yamuna.
The PM directed that the perfect accessible expertise be harnessed to assemble micro-level real-time information to measure drain flows and monitor the functioning of sewage therapy crops, a press release from the Delhi CM’s workplace stated. He additionally suggested that house expertise be used for this goal, it added.
“Centre will work closely with the Delhi government to ensure world class infrastructure and ‘ease of living’ for my sisters and brothers of Delhi,” the PM posted on X on Thursday.
A clear Yamuna was among the many key guarantees made by the Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) forward of the 2025 Delhi meeting election and remained a hot-button subject in the course of the marketing campaign.
In his victory speech after the Delhi election outcomes have been introduced on February 8, the PM started and ended with an invocation to the river, “Yamuna ki jai.” “The existence of Delhi itself has flourished in the lap of Mother Yamuna. The people of Delhi have been crying after seeing the condition of the Yamuna, as the AAPda in Delhi has insulted this faith,” he stated, referring to the earlier AAP authorities.
In March, a parliamentary standing committee report on the Yamuna discovered that the river was nearly “dead” within the stretch that flows by the nationwide capital—from Palla to Okhla—with the full uncooked sewage dumped far exceeding the town’s sewage therapy capability.
In keeping with officers, steps to be taken within the Haryana stretch of the river, in addition to the downstream part from Delhi to the Sangam in Prayagraj, have been additionally mentioned in the course of the assembly.
The PM additionally referred to as for a “Jan Bhagidari Movement” to wash the river, enlisting volunteers and organising public occasions across the Yamuna, the CM’s workplace stated.
Underlining the significance of cleansing the Yamuna, the PM stated the expertise of Delhi’s residents throughout Chhath Puja ought to enhance. Excessive ranges of pollution within the river—which frequently result in the formation of froth—have been a significant concern in the course of the competition.
The assembly additionally reviewed an agency-wise motion plan to wash the river. The plan included short-term actions (three months), medium-term steps (three months to 1.5 years), and long-term measures (1.5 to a few years), largely associated to empty administration, industrial waste management, figuring out gaps in wastewater therapy, and sewage administration.
It was additionally determined that the Delhi authorities will develop an City River Administration Plan for holistic water administration, aligned with the town’s grasp plan, officers stated. The necessity for a Jan Bhagidari motion involving public participation and riverfront occasions was once more emphasised, they added.
Senior authorities officers introduced the present standing of Delhi’s wastewater therapy infrastructure to the Prime Minister.
After clearing funds for the infrastructure to wash and rejuvenate the Yamuna on Wednesday, the Delhi chief minister stated, “We want to ensure that no untreated wastewater flows into the Yamuna. The rejuvenation of the Yamuna is not merely an environmental goal, but a responsibility to future generations that is being carried out with seriousness and urgency.”
An official from the Union Jal Shakti ministry, who requested to not be named, stated a “Yamuna Kosh” or Yamuna Fund shall be arrange, with a portion of it to be administered by the ministry.
In keeping with a presentation made at Wednesday’s assembly, the measures to revive the river will must be tailor-made to its particular traits, even when lots of the steps mirror these taken below the Ganga cleansing programme.
The Jal Shakti ministry has proposed that interventions equivalent to sewage therapy, dredging, bettering dissolved oxygen ranges, and restoring “jal pravah” (pure water movement) to help the river’s self-cleaning capability ought to be undertaken in a “mission mode,” the official stated. “There may be an overarching Yamuna Mission on the pattern of the National Mission for Clean Ganga,” the official added.
The Jal Shakti ministry has been requested to arrange “institutional mechanisms” to allow coordination between the Haryana and Delhi governments — essential, officers stated, as a number of key actions should be carried out upstream of Delhi.