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Delhi-NCR's Rajghat Power Plant alone dumps 5.5 tonnes of arsenic in the Yamuna every year

Over Rs 1,500 crore spent, and not a drop to show. Atul Chaurasia travels 600 km along the Yamuna and finds the river dying at every bend. AT MATHURA, countless songs fill the air regaling Lord Krishna’s relationship with hisgopis and the Yamuna. One look at the Yamuna today leaves one wondering whether there is anything left of the river of these songs. Instead, it is the masani nullah that catches the eye. […]

 
 
 

Can the Yamuna be Saved ?

Even as thousands are undertaking a march from Mathura to Delhi to raise awareness to save the “dying” Yamuna river, people in this Taj city wonder in sadness if it was still possible to revive one of India’s holiest rivers that is now seen as a mere sewer. Please follow and like us: