New Delhi: The efforts to wash the Yamuna will probably be boosted via wide-ranging consciousness campaigns, together with involving monks to discourage individuals from throwing waste generated throughout spiritual ceremonies into the river, officers on the Delhi LG workplace mentioned on Wednesday.
The plan is to strategy the monks of main temples in addition to these positioned alongside the banks of the Yamuna and get their assist in urging individuals to not throw waste objects like garments, previous idols, calendars, posters, and flowers amongst others within the river, an official mentioned.
In view of the intense significance of public participation within the Yamuna rejuvenation efforts, it has been determined to undertake wide-ranging consciousness technology and motivational IEC (data, schooling, and communication) campaigns on varied media platforms.
Efforts at rejuvenation of Yamuna would require all of us to come back collectively.
Religious ritual waste prevented from being thrown into the river yesterday, was collected for additional disposal by personnel of Territorial Army deployed just lately.
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“In this direction, priests will be involved and sensitized to deter people from throwing religious waste into the river,” mentioned an announcement from the LG workplace.
The current efforts by Lieutenant Governor V Okay Saxena in direction of cleansing and rejuvenation of the Yamuna have begun to point out seen and concrete outcomes, it mentioned.
“Even as critical steps to clean the Najafgarh Drain and restore the Yamuna floodplains have been going on in the right earnest, efforts at preventing the disposal of physical waste into the river have started bearing results,” it mentioned.
Personnel of the Territorial Army deployed on the banks of Yamuna on the initiative of the LG prevented waste generated throughout spiritual ceremonies from being thrown into the river and picked up the identical for disposal in an eco-friendly method after Ram Navami.
Territorial Army personnel additionally just lately stopped washing packaging polybags and sacks within the Najafgarh drain close to the Inderlok metro station. The Irrigation and Flood Control division has issued a challan to the proprietor of packaging materials, mentioned the assertion.
Various macro and micro-level steps have been taken by a high-level committee chaired by the LG, shaped on the path of the National Green Tribunal, that has begun displaying leads to the form of comparatively improved air pollution ranges within the Yamuna the place the Najafgarh drain empties into the river, it mentioned.
Trapping of sub-drains flowing into the Najafgarh drain, restoration of floodplains at Kudasia Ghat, Asita East, Baansera, and the stretch between Bela Farm and Garhi Mandu, are different initiatives for rejuvenation of the river and its floodplain, the assertion added.
