LG VK Saxena also spoke about the “draconian approach” of the Delhi Jal Board in cleaning and sanitizing the Jalayatra pond behind the Wazirabad barrage, which supplies water to the Wazirabad and Chandrawal water treatment plants. He claimed that more than 9 lakh million liters of water was wasted in Delhi as the pond was not de-silted.
Referring to his visit to the area on 9 March, VK Saxena said he had seen “grim testimonies and criminal eyes” of the WTP and pond areas, resulting in “complete water scarcity”. The letter alleged that the plant itself had rusted and corroded waterways, corroded pipelines, silt-laden equipment and electric water pumps.
Saxena said, “Desilting has been stalled since 2013, but no de-siltation has taken place, as a result of which the depth of the pond has decreased from 4.26 meters to just 0.42 meters during the last eight years.” In the letter, he said that the de-silting work was stopped in September 2014 due to a stay order from the National Green Tribunal and was resumed in 2015 after the stay order was lifted.
It is noteworthy here that while five lakh cubic meters of silt was removed in about nine months between 2013 and 2014, only 1.1 cubic meters of silt was removed in the period between 2015 and 2018, following the sterage by the NGT. . “Even after this, despite no work being done, it took almost four years for DJB to terminate the contract by February 2022,” the LG said. Pond silt and converted. Of the 6.1 million cubic meters of silt removed between the dates, when no one could stop the desilting, about three million cubic meters of “six silts” were bookmarked and left on the rest of the site, after which, again, the silt was deposited. Went.
LG Saxena in his letter said that Delhi is now facing a situation where silt of about 10 lakh cubic meters is once again blocking the pond area, reducing its capacity. “A back-of-the-envelope calculation reveals that during the last 10 years, due to siltation of pond areas, Delhi, an area that is prominent among other states almost exclusively for the beauty of its waters, About 9,12,500 flashes of water are reflected in the rivers.
LG Saxena wrote in his letter, silt in the cover of the pond area and advised for the matter of cleaning and water treatment. “It is also necessary that strict action is initiated against the officials responsible for this gross allegation and criminal misconduct,” the letter said.
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