Rs 1,400 crore down stinking drain
This must be the most expensive bit of housekeeping anywhere in the world, and pointless. Over Rs 1,400 crore has been spent on cleaning up 22 km of Yamuna River cutting through Delhi. And it remains just as dirty .
Supreme Court judge Markandeya Katju called it a "stinking drain" on Tuesday. "I went there to perform the last rites of my mother and the smell at the ghat was unbearable."
This observation came at a hearing by a bench comprising Katju and Justice H.K. Sema of a public interest litigation seeking the court's intervention in the implementation of safety measures on national highways.
Katju raised the Yamuna clean-up issue to explain why the Supreme Court cannot and should not get into areas marked out for the executive (the government). It didn't work in the case of Yamuna.
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Supreme Court judge Markandeya Katju called it a "stinking drain" on Tuesday. "I went there to perform the last rites of my mother and the smell at the ghat was unbearable."
This observation came at a hearing by a bench comprising Katju and Justice H.K. Sema of a public interest litigation seeking the court's intervention in the implementation of safety measures on national highways.
Katju raised the Yamuna clean-up issue to explain why the Supreme Court cannot and should not get into areas marked out for the executive (the government). It didn't work in the case of Yamuna.
To read the full article, click here...
To read the ePaper, visit: http://epaper.hindustantimes.com
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