NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a meeting on cleaning and rejuvenating the Yamuna as well as addressing drinking water related issues of Delhi. 

He affirmed that the Centre will work closely with the Delhi Government to ensure world class infrastructure and ‘Ease of Living’ for the people of Delhi.

He wrote in a post on X: “Chaired a meeting on cleaning and rejuvenating the Yamuna as well as addressing drinking water related issues of Delhi. Centre will work closely with the Delhi Government to ensure world class infrastructure and ‘Ease of Living’ for my sisters and brothers of Delhi.”

Meanwhile, in a statement, the Delhi Chief Minister’s office (CMO) said the PM reviewed agency-wise action plans to clean the river. The meeting discussed short-term activities (three months), medium-term activities (three months to one-and-a-half years) and long-term activities (one-and-a-half years to three years) related to the cleaning of the Yamuna, along with management of drains, sewage, industrial waste and identification of gaps in wastewater treatment, it added.

The PM advised that the best available technology should be harnessed to gather micro-level real-time data to measure flows in the drains as well as monitor functioning of the sewage treatment plants (STPs).

Further planning and implementation of pollution abatement infrastructure should be based on this data, the statement said, adding the data must also be used to ensure that existing infrastructure is functioning effectively. He further advised that space technology may be used for this purpose, the CMO said.