Overview
- Chief Minister Rekha Gupta inspected a clean-up drive at Chhath Ghat near ITO on Sunday.
- The event, organised by the Culture Youth Foundation, drew citizens and youth along with the Yamuna Task Force from the 137 CETF Battalion of the Territorial Army.
- Gupta framed the river effort as a people-led campaign and called cleanliness a collective moral responsibility toward future generations.
- She said the government is executing a phased, scientific plan at a war footing focused on silt removal, waste management, sewage and biological treatment, and monitoring.
- The chief minister pledged full support for citizen-driven initiatives, while reports offered no independent measures of improvement in river conditions.