Conservation plan for Yamuna floodplain wetlands gets nod
The URMP aims at rejuvenating the Yamuna and integrating sustainable water governance into the city's master plan. It is one of the key components of the River Cities Alliance (RCA), launched in 2021 to rejuvenateurban rivers.
A note on the decisions of the NMCG's executive committee, sent to different central ministries and state govts on July 16, shows that the project on wetlands will focus on all wetlands within a 10 km buffer of the Yamuna by conducting a comprehensive inventory and assessment of its floodplain.
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"The initiative aims to strengthen the management of these ecosystems and enhance the overall health of the river system," said the note, adding that a committee comprising Wetland Authority of Delhi, Union environment ministry, Delhi Development Authority, NMCG and Wetland International South Asia would be set up to oversee the smooth implementation of the project.
Preparing a wetlands map at 1:10,000 scale and decadal (20 years) wetland change data; creating wetlands inventory data (physical feature, hydrological regimes and ecological data) for all surveyed wetlands, wetlands ecosystem health cards, wetlands prioritisation matrix and management plans for prioritised wetlands; and training of wetland managers will be the key components of the wetland conservation project.
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The National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) will be the implementing agency of URMPs in RCA member cities, including Delhi. The project will be completed by Dec next year.
The Delhi URMP will have a component of 'safe re-use of treated water'. IIT-Delhi will support the URMP preparation process through the Centre of Excellence (CoE) set up under the NMCG-IITD Dutch collaboration for intelligent river system and clean Ganga.
Under the RCA, NMCG had in April approved an action plan for 145 cities, located along different rivers, for keeping stretches of their respective rivers healthy and sustainable as part of the river-sensitive urban development.
The plan covers cities such as Agra, Ayodhya, Kanpur, Lucknow, Prayagraj, Varanasi, Jhansi, Dehradun, Haridwar, Patna, Ranchi, Howrah, Pune, Nashik, Chennai, Hyderabad, Udaipur, Bhubaneshwar, Surat, Thiruvunanthapuram and Visakhapatnam.
Of the 145 cities, 14 are in Uttarakhand, 25 in UP, 20 in Bihar, 14 in Jharkhand, 32 in West Bengal. The remaining 40 are in other states.
Kanpur, Ayodhya, Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar, Moradabad, and Bareilly - have already developed their URMPs, setting the benchmark for other urban centres. Twenty-five more URMPs will be prepared this year. It will be part of creating 60 such plans across India at the cost of more than Rs 21 crore by Dec 2026.
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