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Untreated sewage, missing effluent attraction plants, task delays and a large shortfall successful coagulated discarded processing are the cardinal reasons the Yamuna remains polluted successful the nationalist capital, the Jal Shakti Ministry said connected Monday (December 1, 2025).
The Ministry besides said that the Delhi Jal Board spent astir ₹5,536 crore implicit the past 3 fiscal years connected efforts to support the stream clean.
In a written effect to a question successful Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Jal Shakti Raj Bhushan Choudhary said Delhi had a sewage attraction spread of 414 MLD successful August 2025, lacked communal effluent attraction plants successful respective approved concern areas, and continued to look delays successful completing and upgrading sewage attraction projects.
He added that Delhi generates 11,862 tonnes of coagulated discarded regular but has the capableness to dainty lone 7,641 tonnes, leaving a spread of 4,221 tonnes.
The Minister noted that the Yamuna enters Delhi astatine Palla, wherever its h2o prime fluctuates done the twelvemonth depending connected h2o availability and catchment discharge. Median Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) and Dissolved Oxygen (DO) levels betwixt January and July 2025 stood astatine 4 mg/l and 6 mg/l respectively, according to the Central Pollution Control Board.
A DPCC appraisal successful September recorded improved figures, with BOD astatine 2.5 mg/l and DO astatine 9.5 mg/l, some wrong steadfast limits.
The Minister said the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) is supporting states done fiscal assistance. Under the Namami Gange programme, 35 projects amounting to ₹6,534 crore person been sanctioned for Yamuna rejuvenation, aimed astatine creating 2,243 MLD of sewage attraction capacity.
Of these, 21 projects person been completed, helium said.
