Video: Navy Boat Brought To Help Clean Yamuna Stuck In Sewage For A Week

New Delhi:

An Indian Navy boat, deployed to assist clear the river Yamuna in Delhi, is caught within the very sewage it goals to take away.

The Navy’s ‘Barasingha’ has been docked for over per week on the riverbanks, trapped within the muck and waste within the Yamuna. Visuals present the boat stationed at a spot, with two Navy officers standing guard close to the fetid river. The vessel, outfitted for desilting, is unable to maneuver as a result of the water is simply too shallow; any boat wants no less than two metres depth to maneuver however due to many years of air pollution, the depth is way much less in components of the river.

Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena had requested for the Navy boat in an try and dredge the waste accrued in one in all India’s most polluted rivers.

The desilting would cowl a 22 km stretch from Wazirabad to Okha, believed to be the dirtiest and most poisonous half. The boat additionally aimed to watch the clean-up amid plans to arrange an inland waterway within the Yamuna.

Now the sludge must be dredged simply so the boat can transfer and do its job, officers mentioned. It isn’t clear whether or not any feasibility evaluation was achieved earlier than the boat was introduced in.

Thought of some of the sacred rivers of India, the Yamuna can be among the many most polluted due to human exercise just like the immersion of ashes of the lifeless, spiritual rituals, family waste and industrial effluents.

Due to the sewage, components of the river have usually been coated by thick white foam, unfit for any use.

In line with a Delhi air pollution panel report, practically Rs 6,856 crore has been spent between 2017 and 2021 to wash up the Yamuna in Delhi, however giant stretches of the river stay severely polluted.