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Delhi government promises to clean Yamuna River, announces action plan
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday pledged to clean the Yamuna river completely by 2025 and announced a six-point action plan to clean the river. The Delhi Chief Minister also promised to make the river fit for bathing and drinking by 2025.
Here are the key announcements made by the CM
-Delhi government will construct new sewage treatment plants and increase the capacity of the existing ones as well as upgrade those.
– This will increase sewage treatment capacity from around 600 million gallons of waste water a day to 750 MGD-800 MGD. Waste water from four major drains falling in the Yamuna — Najafgarh, Badshahpur, Supplementary and Ghazipur — is being treated in-situ.
– The government will shut down the industries discharging industrial waste into the Yamuna. Wastewater in “jhuggi jhopri” clusters flows through stormwater drains into the Yamuna. These will be connected to the sewer network.
-The government will provide household connections in areas that have a sewer network. Earlier, the consumers had to get the connection themselves.
The Delhi government has started de-silting and rehabilitation of the sewer network. Delhi government engineers and officers are hopeful that they will be able to clean the Yamuna by February 2025 with the implementation of the six-point action plan. Specific targets have been set for each action point and the CM will personally monitor the progress.
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What monkey fled with a bag containing evidence in it: Read full story
The court, generally, considers a person who commit a crime and the one who destroys the evidence, as criminals in the eyes of law. But what if an animal destroys the evidence of a crime committed by a human.
In a peculiar incident in Rajasthan, a monkey fled away with the evidence collected by the police in a murder case. The stolen evidence included the murder weapon (a blood-stained knife).
The incident came to light when the police appeared before the court and they had to provide the evidence in the hearing.
The hearing was about the crime which took place in September 2016, in which a person named Shashikant Sharma died at a primary health center under Chandwaji police station. After the body was found, the deceased’s relatives blocked the Jaipur-Delhi highway, demanding an inquiry into the matter.
Following the investigation, the police had arrested Rahul Kandera and Mohanlal Kandera, residents of Chandwaji in relation to the murder. But, when the time came to produce the evidence related to the case, it was found that the police had no evidence with them because a monkey had stolen it from them.
In the court, the police said that the knife, which was the primary evidence, was also taken by the monkey. The cops informed that the evidence of the case was kept in a bag, which was being taken to the court.
The evidence bag contained the knife and 15 other important evidences. However, due to the lack of space in the malkhana, a bag full of evidence was kept under a tree, which led to the incident.