Delhi CM pledges to clean Yamuna by 2025, announces six-point action plan - key highlights

It took 70 years for the river Yamuna to become this dirty, it can't be cleaned within 2 days. I had promised people in these Delhi polls that it would be cleaned by the next polls. We've started work on war-footing. We have 6 action points over it, I'm personally monitoring it, the Delhi CM said.

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday pledged to clean the Yamuna river completely by 2025 and announced a six-point action plan for cleaning the holy river. The Delhi Chief Minister also promised to make the river fit for bathing and drinking by 2025. 

Announcing the plan, CM Kejriwal said, "It took 70 years for river Yamuna to become this dirty, it can't be cleaned within two days. "I had promised people in these Delhi polls that it would be cleaned by next polls. We've started work on war-footing. We have 6 action points over it, I'm personally monitoring it.''

-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.