New Delhi, Oct 18 (PTI) Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, along with her Cabinet colleagues, joined a cleanliness drive along the Yamuna River at the Haathi Ghat near ITO on Sunday, officials said.
Gupta, who picked up garbage from the riverbank alongwith a large number of youth and members of social organisations, said, “I found that a large quantity of broken pieces of idols of deities and other items used in worship were thrown into the river. Plastic was also thrown in large quantities.”
She said it is the responsibility of everyone who has faith in the Yamuna to keep it clean.
Delhi government is taking several steps to clean the Yamuna, including tapping drain water flowing into the river by setting up decentralised sewerage treatment plants and desilting of drains, she said.
BJP leaders and workers, as well as the members of residents’ welfare societies, joined the drive. PTI VIT ARI
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