India, March 3 -- The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has prepared an action plan to prevent dairy waste from reaching Yamuna via city's drains. The project includes setting up of ten biogas plants, nine waste water treatment facilities, carrying out overhaul of drainage in dairy colonies along with development of sedimentation chambers, senior civic officials said.

MCD and Delhi government have been directed to work in collaboration with the National Dairy Development Board to manage the waste produced by dairies and cow shelters.

The civic body in September last yearoperationalised its first biogas plant at southwest Delhi's Nangli dairy which can process 200 tonnes of dairy (TPD) waste every day while two more plants are under constru...