Yamuna Cleaning Cell fixes timeline for cleaning Yamuna's biggest polluters

Digital Desk: The Yamuna Cleaning Cell, an inter-agency organisation specified by the Delhi government in 2020 to hasten the Yamuna cleaning processes, has fixed a timeframe for precise interventions to combat water pollution in two drains, Najafgarh and Supplementary, which deposit the most sewage into the river. According to a senior official with the Delhi Jal Board, one of the cleaning cell's agencies, the body prepares to operate floating swamps, aerators, fleeting weirs, and dredging gutter beds to confirm that the bulk is of pollutants are released before the drains released into the Yamuna. According to official calculations, the two largest water bodies associated with the Shahdara drain generate approximately 70% of the extensive sewage in the Yamuna water. The cleaning cell has even specified dates for interventions in the Najafgarh and Supplementary drains, according to a DJB official. According to an analysis by the cell, large provinces of the gutters are designed to have wetlands and aerators afloat by March, and supplemental interventions such as dredging in some areas will be achieved by June. "The Irrigation and Flood Control department, as well as DJB, are carrying out the interventions." To remove collected silt, chutes will be desilted up to the required bed status, and transient weirs constructed of sandbags will be made along the drains to make ponds for establishing aerators and other benchmarks. Enduring check dams are even being constructed to permit the service of floating aerators and wetland-based therapy technology, according to the DJB official. The irrigation and flood management department has even appointed a consultant for the section of the Najafgarh drain from Chhawla in southwest Delhi to Basai Darapur in west Delhi. In November of last year, the Delhi government created a Yamuna Cleaning Cell (YCC). DJB CEO is in charge. Five weirs have already been constructed on the Supplementary drain between Rithala and Wazirabad, according to the most recent Yamuna Cleaning Cell report. Unfortunately, due to January's exceptional rainfall, these formats were impaired.