TTZ is an area of about 10,400 sq km spread over the districts of Agra, Firozabad, Mathura, Hathras and Etah in Uttar Pradesh and Bharatpur district of Rajasthan, Millenium Post reports.

Mathura (UP): Officials of the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) collected water samples from Yamuna river here on directions from the Supreme Court regarding overflowing drains in the Taj Trapezium Zone.

TTZ is an area of about 10,400 sq km spread over the districts of Agra, Firozabad, Mathura, Hathras and Etah in Uttar Pradesh and Bharatpur district of Rajasthan.

An apex court bench, In December last year had asked environmentalist M C Mehta and NEERI to inspect the city of Agra and produce a report within eight weeks suggesting required measures to be taken to deal with the problem of overflowing drains.

The NEERI team led by Dr Praveen Kumar collected the samples from the river on Friday, environmentalist and social worker Gopeshwar Nath Chaturvedi said. Kumar has been filing petitions in higher courts for cleaning and maintaining ecological flow in Yamuna river for many years.

The samples were taken by NEERI scientists from Bengali Ghat pumping station, Kosi drain, Masani drain, Ambakhar drain and Gokul barrage areas of Yamuna,” Chaturvedi said while accompanying the team

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