Only 54 per cent of the total sewage generated in the national capital is treated by Delhi Jal Board and the rest 313 MGD of waste is released into Yamuna untreated. The Comptroller and Auditor General, in its report for the fiscal ending March 2012 which was tabled in Delhi Assembly on Tuesday, said that sewage management in Delhi was found to be "deficient" in various aspects. ...
05:35 AM, Apr 03, 2013
The Delhi government, in connivance with private firms, has shown inflated figures of water being treated and wasted to increase tariff and implement a Rs 520 crore project to replace the water pipeline in the city, Aam Aadmi Party convenor Arvind Kejriwal alleged on Saturday. "There is a clear nexus between the company (which supplies treated water) and Sheila Dikshit government," he told reporters. ...
11:54 PM, Feb 16, 2013
Aam Admi Party convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday persisted with his attack on Delhi government for the second successive day, accusing it of irregularities in Delhi Jal Board and effecting 18-fold hike in the water tariff in last nine years. ...
01:57 AM, Feb 03, 2013
About 10 people allegedly entered the office of Delhi Jal Board in Janakpuri and made an unsuccessful attempt to loot cash by trying to break open the cash chest, the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) said on Tuesday. On the night of December 9 and 10, around 10 thieves entered DJB's Janakpuri Office by breaking the window and tried to cut open the cash chest to loot the cash placed there....
08:33 PM, Dec 11, 2012
New Delhi: A water bill of Rs 2 crore left a small Delhi family gasping this month. Satvir Kaur and Paramjit Singh were speechless when they saw their bill of Rs 2.39 crore. And it was not just Satvir. Her neighbor Usha Singh also got a water bill for Rs 50 lakh. "We were so tensed.. People like us who earn so less, how can we pay such an amount?"...
09:08 PM, Nov 09, 2012
New Delhi: The 26 per cent hike in power tariff for domestic consumers in the city will come into effect from Sunday. The new rates were announced by the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) on Wednesday. As per the new rates, consumers will have charged Rs 3.70 per unit for the first 200 units and Rs 4.80 for the monthly usages of upto 400 units. This is the fourth hike...
01:45 PM, Jul 01, 2012
New Delhi: Various areas in the city continued to face water shortage though the situation has improved marginally with neighbouring Haryana releasing more water to Delhi. Delhi Jal Board officials said the Haiderpur treatment plant, which supplies water to various areas in West and South Delhi, could not produce water to its optimum capacity due to shortage of raw water. However, they said Haryana has released more water to Delhi...
02:42 AM, Jun 21, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) on Wednesday entered into an agreement with two companies from Singapore for technical support and implementation of the programme to meet the growing demand of water in New Delhi. "Delhi Jal Board signed an agreement with Singapore Cooperation Enterprise and Temasek Foundation for a new programme designed to share Singapore's experience in recycle and reuse of treated sewage and wastewater," a DJB official...
09:30 PM, Jun 20, 2012
New Delhi: A Rs 3,780 crore budget was on Wednesday approved for Delhi Jal Board for the year 2012-13 during which the agency will carry out a number of projects to modernise its water distribution network. The budget, comprising Rs 1984.74 crore of plan allocation and Rs 1796.17 crore of non-plan allocation, was cleared by a DJB board meeting presided over by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit who is also chairperson...
04:27 AM, Apr 26, 2012
The hike in water charges is to meet the revenue shortfall of the DJB. ...
01:03 AM, Dec 01, 2009
Washing your car or watering your lawns could cost you Rs 10,000. ...
12:29 PM, Feb 01, 2009
He has been sentenced to two weeks in jail. ...
01:17 PM, Nov 26, 2008
Johannesburg: South African coach Corrie van Zyl rues that the SuperSport Park pitch at Centurion has slowed down but feels that there should be enough mongrel in the strip to bother the Indian top-order in the first Test starting December 16. The Test venue on which the Proteas have had most success isn't what it used to be but van Zyl is still hopeful that there would be some pace...
11:55 PM, Nov 15, 2007
Delhi's ground water levels are dipping steeply and the amount of water being drawn is 250 times more than what actually seeps in. ...
11:37 PM, Mar 22, 2007
