The Delhi government has launched the Yamuna Prahari app to bring students, teachers, social organisations and residents into the city’s Yamuna-cleaning and conservation campaign, with thousands of students from 30 Delhi University colleges scheduled to take a cleanliness pledge on 18 October.
Chief Minister Rekha Gupta launched the app at the Delhi University Sports Complex under the Seva Sankalp campaign. Registration on the platform has begun, allowing citizens and institutions to join the initiative, according to a report by Jagran.
The government’s stated objective is to expand public participation in the Yamuna campaign beyond official programmes. Gupta said students should carry the campaign’s message to their families and communities rather than limit their involvement to a single event.
She also said that cleaning the Yamuna could not be the responsibility of the government alone. Citizen participation and changes in public behaviour would be necessary to turn the effort into a mass movement, she said.
The announcement places the app alongside infrastructure measures cited by Union Minister of State and Delhi BJP president Harsh Malhotra at the launch event. Malhotra said more than Rs 3,000 crore had been allocated for work related to cleaning the river.
He also said the tender process had been completed for sewage-treatment plants at the outlets of 22 major drains flowing into the Yamuna. Construction had begun at 12 locations, according to the report. The announcement did not provide details about the capacity of the plants, their individual completion schedules or the agencies responsible for operating them.
The government has linked the public-participation campaign to activities that add pollution pressure to the river. Gupta specifically referred to the immersion of पूजा materials, flowers, garlands and broken idols in the Yamuna, saying that such practices increase the burden on the river.
The app is therefore intended to support a wider civic campaign, while the sewage-treatment projects address pollution entering the river through major drains. The two tracks place responsibility on both public agencies and residents, but the government has not provided, in the reported announcement, a detailed framework for measuring registrations, citizen activities or the app’s effect on water quality.
The 18 October event is expected to bring together students from 30 Delhi University colleges for a collective pledge on Yamuna cleanliness and conservation. Students, teachers, social organisations and other residents can register through the newly launched application.
The launch was attended by Minister Pravesh Verma, MLA Surya Prakash Khatri and Delhi University Vice-Chancellor Professor Yogesh Singh, along with a large number of students and young people. The next reported public milestone is the student pledge event on 18 October.