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Before the unfortunate complete draining of this lake in the 1960s by widening of the Najafgarh drain by the Flood control and irrigation department of Delhi the lake in many years filled up a depression more than 300 square kilometres in rural delhi, It had an extremely rich wetland ecosystem forming a refuge for vast quantities of waterbirds ...
Aerial view Najafgarh Drain flowing through Kakrola Bridge near Dwarka Sector 16. The Najafgarh drain or Najafgarh nalah (nalah in Hindi means rivulet or storm water drain), which also acts as Najafgarh drain bird sanctuary, is another name for the northernmost end of River Sahibi, which continues its flow through Delhi, where it is channelized, and then flows into the Yamuna.
MP for Outer Delhi: 28 July 1979 14 January 1980 170 days Indian National Congress (Urs) Charan: Charan Singh: Minister of Irrigation 15 A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury (1927–2006) MP for Malda: 16 January 1980 8 June 1980 144 days Indian National Congress: Indira III: Indira Gandhi: 16 Kedar Pandey (1920–1982) MP for Bettiah: 8 June 1980 12 ...
The Okhla barrage (Okhla Weir and Okhla bridge) [2] is a 791 meters [1] or roughly 800-yard long weir across Yamuna River opened in 1874. It also serves as the location of Okhla Bird Sanctuary today. It is situated 10 km to the south of New Delhi and downstream of Nizamuddin bridge at Okhla, where Agra canal originates from it. [3]
The Agra Canal is an important Indian irrigation work which starts from Okhla in Delhi.The Agra canal originates at the Okhla barrage, downstream of Nizamuddin bridge. [2]The canal receives its water from the Yamuna River at Okhla, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) to the south of New Delhi.
The Wazirabad barrage or Wazirabad bridge, [2] built in 1959 is a 1,491 ft long weir across Yamuna River, in north Delhi. [3] [4] ITO barrage and Okhla barrage are 2 downstream barrages in Delhi and are managed by Haryana and UP respectively, [5] [6] [7] [1] [8] whereas the Wazirabad barrage is under the management of Delhi govt.
Central Water Commission (CWC) is a premier Technical Organization of India in the field of Water Resources and is presently functioning as an attached office of the Department of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, Ministry of Jal Shakti, Government of India.
In all, nine city forests in different parts of Delhi were set up and 18 lakh saplings were planted during that greening drive in Delhi. Chhawla city forest covers a 12-hectare terrain that originally belonged to the Irrigation and Flood Control Department and a boundary wall has been constructed around it. [1] [2]