By way of PTI
NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh sponsored out from a plan to supply 140 million gallons consistent with day (MGD) of uncooked water to Delhi in lieu of an similar amount of handled effluent for irrigation in spite of the Lieutenant Governor creating a request to Leader Minister Yogi Adityanath, in line with an RTI answer.
The plan concerned the provision of 270 cusecs (1 cusec is the same as 1 cubic toes consistent with 2nd) of clean water from the Murad Nagar Regulator to the Sonia Vihar water remedy plant in Delhi and the discharge of an similar amount of handled effluent from the Okhla sewage remedy plant within the Agra Canal.
Paperwork accessed below the Proper to Data Act confirmed that the 2 states held more than one conferences at the water change plan beginning Would possibly 3, 2018, and the then LG Anil Baijal and the then leader secretary Vijay Kumar Dev had additionally asked the UP executive to finalise the settlement.
A feasibility record the UP Jal Nigam despatched to the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) on July 1, 2020, stated the challenge was once workable.
The DJB had paid Rs 70 lakh for the preparation of the feasibility record and the Delhi executive had additionally agreed to endure the price of laying pipelines and development and service paintings wanted for the provision of uncooked water from UP and the discharge of handled effluent into the Agra Canal.
Baijal mentioned the problem with the UP leader minister at the telephone on June 14 closing 12 months and wrote to him on June 23, inquiring for him to factor instructions to the dept involved to supply 270 cusecs (140 million gallons an afternoon) of uncooked water to Delhi from Murad Nagar, the paperwork confirmed.
“Delhi does now not have sufficient water assets of its personal and relies on neighbouring states to satisfy its consuming water wishes. Amid the expanding inhabitants, Delhi wishes 265 MGD of extra uncooked water to fulfil the requirement. The feasibility record dated July 1, 2020, says it’s imaginable for UP to supply 270 cusecs of uncooked water to Delhi. Subsequently, I request you to thrill factor vital instructions to the dept involved on this regard,” the LG’s letter learn.
On February 2 closing 12 months, Vijay Kumar Dev wrote to the UP leader secretary, inquiring for him to finalise the pact.
“I want to thanks for the certain steps taken against processing the request of Delhi…The workplaces of each states have held quite a lot of conferences, joint inspections and deliberations to take the subject ahead. Would possibly I suggest that the overall working out and consensus accomplished via each the states until date is also formalised by means of a memorandum for working out,” Dev wrote to UP Leader Secretary R Okay Tiwari.
Alternatively, the chief engineer of the UP executive in a letter dated July 9, 2021, knowledgeable the DJB that the “competent authority” didn’t approve the feasibility record and “it can be handled null and void.”
The UP executive additionally returned Rs 70 lakh that the DJB gave for the preparation of the record with out bringing up any reason why for chickening out from the plan, the RTI answer confirmed.
The paperwork confirmed the DJB later requested the Delhi executive that “intervention and persuasion on the very best political stage be performed for in quest of consent of the UP executive” however the request didn’t elicit a reaction.
Delhi calls for round 1,200 MGD of water, whilst the DJB provides round 950 MGD.
Haryana provides a complete of 610 MGD of water to Delhi via two canals — CLC (368 MGD) and DSB (177) — and the Yamuna (65 MGD).
CLC and the DSB are equipped water from Hathni Kund by way of the Munak canal and the Bhakra Beas Control Board.
But even so, Delhi receives 253 MGD from Uttar Pradesh in the course of the Higher Ganga Canal, and 90 MGD is drawn from Ranney wells and tube wells put in around the town.
NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh sponsored out from a plan to supply 140 million gallons consistent with day (MGD) of uncooked water to Delhi in lieu of an similar amount of handled effluent for irrigation in spite of the Lieutenant Governor creating a request to Leader Minister Yogi Adityanath, in line with an RTI answer.
The plan concerned the provision of 270 cusecs (1 cusec is the same as 1 cubic toes consistent with 2nd) of clean water from the Murad Nagar Regulator to the Sonia Vihar water remedy plant in Delhi and the discharge of an similar amount of handled effluent from the Okhla sewage remedy plant within the Agra Canal.
Paperwork accessed below the Proper to Data Act confirmed that the 2 states held more than one conferences at the water change plan beginning Would possibly 3, 2018, and the then LG Anil Baijal and the then leader secretary Vijay Kumar Dev had additionally asked the UP executive to finalise the settlement.
A feasibility record the UP Jal Nigam despatched to the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) on July 1, 2020, stated the challenge was once workable.
The DJB had paid Rs 70 lakh for the preparation of the feasibility record and the Delhi executive had additionally agreed to endure the price of laying pipelines and development and service paintings wanted for the provision of uncooked water from UP and the discharge of handled effluent into the Agra Canal.
Baijal mentioned the problem with the UP leader minister at the telephone on June 14 closing 12 months and wrote to him on June 23, inquiring for him to factor instructions to the dept involved to supply 270 cusecs (140 million gallons an afternoon) of uncooked water to Delhi from Murad Nagar, the paperwork confirmed.
“Delhi does now not have sufficient water assets of its personal and relies on neighbouring states to satisfy its consuming water wishes. Amid the expanding inhabitants, Delhi wishes 265 MGD of extra uncooked water to fulfil the requirement. The feasibility record dated July 1, 2020, says it’s imaginable for UP to supply 270 cusecs of uncooked water to Delhi. Subsequently, I request you to thrill factor vital instructions to the dept involved on this regard,” the LG’s letter learn.
On February 2 closing 12 months, Vijay Kumar Dev wrote to the UP leader secretary, inquiring for him to finalise the pact.
“I want to thanks for the certain steps taken against processing the request of Delhi…The workplaces of each states have held quite a lot of conferences, joint inspections and deliberations to take the subject ahead. Would possibly I suggest that the overall working out and consensus accomplished via each the states until date is also formalised by means of a memorandum for working out,” Dev wrote to UP Leader Secretary R Okay Tiwari.
Alternatively, the chief engineer of the UP executive in a letter dated July 9, 2021, knowledgeable the DJB that the “competent authority” didn’t approve the feasibility record and “it can be handled null and void.”
The UP executive additionally returned Rs 70 lakh that the DJB gave for the preparation of the record with out bringing up any reason why for chickening out from the plan, the RTI answer confirmed.
The paperwork confirmed the DJB later requested the Delhi executive that “intervention and persuasion on the very best political stage be performed for in quest of consent of the UP executive” however the request didn’t elicit a reaction.
Delhi calls for round 1,200 MGD of water, whilst the DJB provides round 950 MGD.
Haryana provides a complete of 610 MGD of water to Delhi via two canals — CLC (368 MGD) and DSB (177) — and the Yamuna (65 MGD).
CLC and the DSB are equipped water from Hathni Kund by way of the Munak canal and the Bhakra Beas Control Board.
But even so, Delhi receives 253 MGD from Uttar Pradesh in the course of the Higher Ganga Canal, and 90 MGD is drawn from Ranney wells and tube wells put in around the town.