Activists who have been campaigning to save the river and the floodplains in Delhi rued that the Government has been dragging its feet on the issue of a notifying a RRZ policy for years now. “What has happened cannot be undone, but the government should now act fast and protect what is left of the river and the floodplains. I submitted a report to the Ministry in 2003 about the RRZ policy, but all these years there has been no action," said Prof. Brij Gopal, a former Jawaharlal Nehru University professor. Pointing out that rivers like the Yamuna are dying and losing their floodplains to concretisation in the absence of legally binding policies, Manoj Misra of Yamuna Jiye Abhiyan said: “If the Minister feels so strongly about the flood plains of rivers, then what is preventing the Ministry from taking action against the ill located, illegal, unethical and unauthorised DTC depot and the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation's residential structures in the riverbed?" Read the full report here.
Source: Yamuna Jiye Abhiyaan.
