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Delhi CM pledges to clean Yamuna by 2025, announces six-point action plan

PLAN 

• Work on sewer treatment on war-footing
• New sewer treatment plants will be built
• Capacity of existing plants will be increased
• Technology of old treatment plants will be changed
• Upgrade four major drains falling in the Yamuna — Najafgarh, Badshahpur, Supplementary and Ghazipur — to treat wastewater in-situ.
• Shut down the industries discharging industrial waste into the Yamuna. Wastewater in “jhuggi jhopri” clusters flows through stormwater drains into the Yamuna.
• In some areas people haven’t taken sewer connections. The govt will install sewer connections in such areas at nominal charges. The government will provide household connections in areas that have a sewer network
• De-silting and rehabilitation of the sewer network.