New Delhi, July 21 -- The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Delhi government to hold a joint meeting of the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) and the irrigation and flood control department (IF&C), within a week to resolve issues stalling the demarcation of the Yamuna floodplains in Delhi.

The dispute centres on the demarcation of the 22-km stretch of the Yamuna floodplains between Wazirabad and Okhla barrages. In a progress report submitted to the NGT on July 15, the DDA said it had begun demarcation after receiving a draft map and had also started installing boundary bollards. It said 206 of the proposed 277 bollards had already been fixed and the work was expected to be completed by July 31.

However, the authority said t...