CSE has closely scrutinised the detailed project report of the
interceptor plan prepared by the consultants appointed by the
Delhi Jal Board and found this hardware plan to be a complete
waste of money. The river will remain dead despite the massive
investments planned during 2009-2012. It was in response to the
criticism over the failure of the efforts to clean the Yamuna
including the Union ministry of environment and forest (MoEF)
sponsored Yamuna Action Plan (YAP) that the DJB came up with the
idea of interceptor sewers. So far Delhi government has spent
over Rs 1,500 crore just to connect 50 per cent of Delhi’s
population to its sewerage network. Delhi has the largest
sewerage infrastructure—6,000 kilometres (km) sewers and 2330
million litres per day (mld) sewage treatment capacity. CSE in
its report Sewage Canal: How to clean the Yamuna pointed out
that a paradigm shift is needed in our approach to clean the
river. An approach moving away from the standard hardware —
sewer and STP — approach. It called