Yamuna resembles a drain: SC

November 09, 2012 19:29

The Supreme Court today said all parameters of water quality of river Yamuna indicates that it more or less resembles a drain and asked authorities to make a joint effort to make it pollution-free.

"All authorities are expected to make some joint efforts to make Yamuna free of pollution," a bench of justices Swatanter Kumar and S J Mukhopadhaya said while asking the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and Delhi Jal Board (DJB) to conduct a joint inspection on rising pollution level of the river in the national capital.

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