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Yamuna
Ganga’s largest tributary Yamuna is one of the holy rivers that is prayed and preached in the country. Now Yamuna is crying to be cleaned from the muck and filth it’s loaded with by people. Back in 1909 Yamuna waters were described as ‘clear blue’ as against the silted yellow waters of the Ganga then. With the high density of growth in population and significant industrial advances Yamuna is now one of the most polluted rivers in the world as per the UN report. Especially the part of river that flows around New Delhi is severely polluted as the city dumps over 50 percent of its waste into the river.

The Union government informed the Lok Sabha in 2009 that the Ganga Action Plan (GAP) and the Yamuna Action Plan (YAP) have failed, expounding that the rivers are not cleaner now than it was two decades ago, even after the government spends Rs 1, 700 crore to control the pollution in these rivers. With time the river has also become a corpse dump yard, adding to the overwhelming pollution.

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