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TopicDelhi Jal Board

Topic: Delhi Jal Board

Delhi court acquits AAP MLA Dinesh Mohaniya in 2016 molestation case

Dinesh Mohaniya was booked for allegedly misbehaving with a group of women, who had approached him with a complaint regarding water crisis in their locality.

Delhi Jal Board says more than 98% of 4,204 water samples collected ‘fit for drinking’

The DJB chief said the BIS report claiming Delhi's water unfit for drinking was aimed at creating chaos ahead of the assembly elections.

AAP demands Paswan’s resignation for ‘fabricated’ BIS report on water quality

AAP spokesperson Raghav Chadha alleged Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan's report was fabricated and asserted that the BIS report was presented to benefit RO companies.

Delhi Jal Board says eight samples of water flagged in BIS test clear quality test

A BIS report on 16 November showed that water samples from 11 places in the capital were not fit for drinking.

Force malls, railways, DDA to use treated wastewater, monitoring panel tells NGT

The Delhi Jal Board is also working on a plan to reuse treated wastewater after releasing it into the Yamuna.

‘No water’ complaints in Delhi rose 151% to 86,637 in first 3 years of AAP govt: study

Praja Foundation study found 86,637 Delhiites approached Delhi Jal Board with complaints about not getting water from 34,554 in 2015.

Why Delhi Jal Board is just not able to clean up the Yamuna mess

Courts and govts have tried to tackle the Yamuna pollution problem, but DJB, which has missed multiple deadlines, says infrastructural roadblocks creating hurdles.

These technologies can end manual scavenging and save lives of sewage workers

Sewage workers continue to die despite the practice being illegal, and the govt has allegedly not done much despite massive funding available under Swachh Bharat.

Deceased sewage worker’s ‘wife’ is his aunt, sobbing ‘son’ a cousin who called him ‘Papa’

Anil’s parents claim that ‘wife’ Rani is doing all this for money, landlord Rammo confirms they lived together and ‘considered themselves married’.

Twitter users raise Rs 24 lakh for family of deceased Delhi sewage worker

Donation began after a photo of the 37-year-old worker’s son next to his corpse was widely shared on Twitter.

On Camera

Carnatic musicians indulged TM Krishna for too long. Boycott is just a start

Krishna has slandered an entire community in the name of freedom of speech. But Brahmin musicians numerically dominate the field due to a complex mix of socio-economic factors, not casteism.

Why Tamil Nadu’s women make up nearly half of India’s female factory workforce

With an educated & skilled workforce, Tamil Nadu has a burgeoning industrial sector which has scored massive investments in automobiles, electronics, and even footwear.

BRO connects new axis to Ladakh, to be shortest route

The all-weather Nimmu-Padam-Darcha Road will connect Manali to Leh through Darcha and Nimmu on Kargil-Leh Highway.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.