India, March 13 -- The Yamuna is virtually "dead" in the stretch that flows through the national capital, from Palla to Okhla; the total raw sewage dumped into the whole of Yamuna, especially in Delhi, is far in excess of total sewage treatment capacity; and Haryana is not releasing enough water into the river to maintain environmental flow in most months, a parliamentary standing committee report on the Yamuna said, flagging "serious and systemic hurdles" in cleansing the river of pollutants.

The report, tabled in both houses of Parliament on Tuesday, said, of the three main portions of the river flowing through the states of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Delhi, the stretch in Delhi was the most polluted.

The standing committee on water r...