A day after a team of officials left Delhi for Gujarat to study the Sabarmati River Front Project and see if it may hold lessons for implementing the Delhi Development Authority’s Yamuna River Front Development Scheme, environmentalists expressed apprehensions over the plan. Questioning whether the Sabarmati had yet been rejuvenated and pointing out that the water flowing in the river channel was a 10.5-km artificial canal with water diverted from Narmada river canal, environmentalists said this was no model to follow. “Do we want to rejuvenate our river, or create an artificial canal in the city? In Ahmedabad, only a canal was created by the Gujarat Government, there has been no rejuvenation of Sabarmati,” said Manoj Mishra of Yamuna Jiye Abhiyaan. A team comprising the Delhi Jal Board CEO, Delhi Parks & Gardens Society Additional Commissioner (Landscape), and the Irrigation & Flood Control Chief Engineer left for Gujarat on Thursday to study the Sabarmati Riverfront Project. “The focus should be to bring the flow of the river back, secure the floodplains with greenery, not concrete. At present, the sewers are linked to the river. Sewage and waste water flowing directly into the river must be stopped. Treat the waste water and use it for agricultural and non-potable water uses instead,” said Mr. Mishra.
Posted on: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 03:19:02 +0000
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