“Why can’t you clean the Yamuna?” I asked an engineer of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB). “A complex issue, Sir...all along the Yamuna, at many places they have illegal slaughter houses. They dump the waste in sewer manholes which clogs them; intestines of dead animals along with blood and other waste flows into the river”, the engineer told me on the condition of anonymity. He was talking about a ‘sensitive’ area called ‘Welcome’ in East Delhi. “Why don’t you challan them?” I then asked. “A team of DJB officers had gone there to prosecute them. They were locked up in a room and threatened if they dared to venture again into that area. They never went to that place again”, the engineer replied with a sigh of helplessness. Read complete article : indiatomorrow.co/nation/1933-illegal-slaughterhouse-waste-is-a-mockery-of-gandhi-jayanti
Posted on: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 08:31:05 +0000