Delhi Updates: CM Kejriwal Urges Centre as Yamuna Swells

Delhi Updates: CM Kejriwal urges Centre to intervene as Yamuna water level swells to an all-time high. Delhi News , July 12: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Wednesday urged the Centre to intervene to ensure that Yamuna water levels which has reached 207.55 m, marking the highest-ever level recorded in the national capital do not rise further. Kejriwal, on Twitter, said, “Central Water Commission predicts 207.72 meter water level in Yamuna tonite. 

Not good news for Delhi. There have been no rains in Delhi last 2 days, however, levels of Yamuna are rising due to abnormally high volumes of water being released by Haryana at Hathnikund barrage. Urge Centre to intervene and ensure that levels in Yamuna don’t rise further.” Meanwhile, a single-judge bench comprising Justice Anish Dayal of Delhi High Court has granted bail to former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain, in five cases related to the Northeast delhi riot  Hussain was booked for rioting, mischief by fire and criminal conspiracy.

The bail has been granted subject to certain conditions, the HC said. In other news, delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena and the AAP government in Delhi came to verbal blows over the issue of waterlogging due to incessant rainfall which has continued to lash the capital since the weekend.  Taking stock of the situation around river banks on Tueasday, he said,  “The people of, delhi  are fed up with waterlogging; it has become a yearly ritual. The cleaning of sewers is not done, the harvesting of rainwater is not being done properly. This waterlogging is a result of the required work not having been done over several years.”