Way back in 2003, I wrote the above piece and personally gave it to the Chief Minister, hoping that action will be initiated soon, for making a lake in the river bed.
The excavated soil is to be used for making two embankments, along the river, on either side, for separating the dirty water coming from the city, so that clean water may be collected in the pit, 20 feet deep, running along the length of the river in Delhi.
The embankments may be very wide, to accommodate wide roads, restaraunts, children’s parks, forests etc. The slopes must be protected with grass. Some specimens of such embankments, formed naturally, can be seen near the Tibetan market.
Sir Metcaffe, who was in charge of Delhi administration for over forty years in the nineteenth century, construced an earthen check dam and diverted the water to the channels in the old fort area (Red Fort) . That time only that area was inhabited.
People were so happy that they celebrated the occasion by floating diya (earthen lamps), as they do in the Ganga.
Why can’t we do it now?
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