Yamuna cleanup: BJP's promise vs reality - A look at the current situation - video Dailymotion

The BJP has promised a clean-up drive for the Yamuna River. Current efforts focus on removing physical garbage from the river and banks.

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00:00Let's focus on really the Yamuna and the cleanup drive that the BJP has promised to take up

00:06What's the current situation in the Yamuna? What is the possibility of it being cleaned up?

00:10Is it as simple as you know getting things moving and it happening in a matter of a couple of months?

00:16Neha Mardani files this reality check from the Yamuna Ghat

00:22Well, what you see right behind me is picking up of dirt from the river basically physical garbage that you see

00:29Sometimes floating on the river and at the banks like this one at the Basudev Ghat is what is being done by this machine

00:36Well, it's great that this work is being done

00:38But it's not the first time that this work is being done

00:41The fact is that this kind of work has been going on for quite some time now

00:47The problem is that experts say that this is only this part of the solution a tiny part of the solution

00:54The bigger problem is that the water is dirty and

00:57No amount of picking up garbage from the water can clean it up

01:01Once the water is unclean the water is unclean because sewage which has been treated very poorly

01:07from the sewage treatment plants

01:10goes into the river and

01:12Destroys the ecology and destroys in fact this river and the quality of the water

01:17That is something that needs to be fixed the quality of the sewage going into the river which is something that is done

01:25Needs to be improved

01:26So the STPs or the sewage treatment plants need to function right and that is something that's not happening

01:33This is low hanging fruit. And again, like I said, it's not the first time that it has been done or it is being done