New Delhi [India], July 4 (ANI): Water Minister Saurabh Bhardwaj arrived on Tuesday to examine the cleansing of the Najafgarh drain. During this, he inspected the work of desilting in addition to the hydraulic excavator put in on the Pantul bridge. He directed the officers to make sure that solely handled sewage is launched into the Yamuna.
The Water Minister additionally confused fixing the issue of water conservation by means of recharging groundwater.
The Kejriwal authorities can be engaged within the elimination of untamed vegetation equivalent to water hyacinths on a big scale. During the inspection, Saurabh Bhardwaj appreciated that the desilting of the Najafgarh drain is being finished on a big scale.
The value of this venture is Rs 11.2 crore. At the identical time, to take away the hump within the Najafgarh drain, silt is eliminated by the federal government by means of a venture costing Rs 20.8 crore.
The similar can be being finished from Khyala Bridge to Basaidarapur Bridge which can value the federal government Rs 13.9 crore. In many locations, tons of silt is being faraway from the drain and dried.
Apart from this, very massive wild vegetation are additionally being faraway from the hydraulic excavator put in on the Pantul bridge. The work of eradicating wild vegetation equivalent to Water Hyacinths (Jal Kumbhi) is occurring on a big scale.
Minister Saurabh Bhardwaj shared that water hyacinths are a really harmful species of plant. These can take away the quantity of oxygen from the water, on account of which the water can turn into stagnant and unusable.
Generally, if the quantity of oxygen within the water is enough, then it itself begins the method of cleansing the water. That is why the Delhi authorities is working doubly laborious to take away water hyacinths from the Najafgarh drain and lots of different such drains.
Silt is being faraway from the drain on a big scale as nicely in order that the circulation of the drain might be sped up and the water current within the drain can add to the method of self-cleaning.
It is price mentioning that a couple of a long time in the past, the Najafgarh drain was referred to as the Sahibi River. But on account of urbanisation, sewer and industrial waste of many cities of Haryana grew to become blended with the Najafgarh lake within the type of Badshahpur and Dharmapura drains. After this, the Sahibi River turned from a river right into a drain.
Furthermore, the way wherein settlement has taken place within the capital within the final a number of a long time has led to the formation of hundreds of unauthorized colonies in Delhi. The sewer and industrial waste of those colonies and industrial clusters began falling into Najafgarh’s drains by means of small drains.
In such a scenario, one of many main causes behind the contamination of the Yamuna River is the sewer and industrial waste coming into the river by means of the Najafgarh drain. Taking steps on this route, the Kejriwal authorities is cleansing all the large and small drains falling into the Najafgarh drain.
By changing the Najafgarh drain right into a clear water channel, clear water will attain the Yamuna. Cabinet Minister Saurabh Bhardwaj stated that each one main drains together with the Najafgarh drain are being reconverted into clear water channels by the Kejriwal authorities.
Delhi Jal Board is treating the water of dozens of drains falling into the Najafgarh drain by means of its numerous STPs and DSTPs. The cleansing of the Najafgarh drain will enhance water circulation. Along with this, the outbreak of mosquitoes can even scale back, on account of which the general public will witness aid from mosquito-borne illnesses equivalent to dengue and malaria.
After eradicating the hump within the drain, the discharge of water will attain the Yamuna extra shortly than earlier than. He added that in the previous couple of years, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has reserved hundreds of crores of rupees in each finances of the federal government, particularly for the cleansing of the Yamuna River.
The results of that is that as we speak small drains falling into huge drains inside Delhi are being handled in sewer remedy vegetation in order that sewage and filth don’t immediately attain the Yamuna River and solely clear water is transported to the river. (ANI)