National Ganga River Basin Authority approves sewage treatment plant at Bithoor

KANPUR: A team of National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) met the officials of Kanpur Development Authority on Wednesday evening and expressed interest in the River Front Development Project. NGRBA team had also approved a proposal to set up a sewage treatment plant at Bithoor which will cost Rs 60 crores.

The KDA team demonstrated its ambitious River Front Development project of Rs 300 crores before the visiting team. The NGRBA team asked KDA to give proposal of the first phase in which the bank between Ganga Barrage and Bhairoghat had to be developed. The KDA apprised the team that under this project, vacant land along the 11-km long bank from Ganga Barrage to Jajmau would be developed as picnic spot and entertainment parks.

The team was told that construction of pathways, picnic spots on vacant land and road to access river along with parking lot would be developed under the project.

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6 sewage plants to be set up as first step in Ganga cleaning

NEW DELHI: Kicking off the process to implement its ambitious clean Ganga mission, the Centre has sanctioned six new sewage treatment plants (STPs) for different cities and towns along the river in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal.

These STPs, cleared under the national mission for clean Ganga (NMCG), will come up in Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh; Beur, Karmalichak and Saidpur (Patna) in Bihar and Budge Budge and Barrackpore in West Bengal at an estimated cost of Rs 1058 crore. Thus the environment ministry has set the ball rolling by clearing these six plants\networks which will treat over 113 million litres per day (MLD) of sewage. 

There are a number of other plans lined up for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's pet project, which are to be announced in due course after studying the feasibility reports. 

"These new plants will add up the capacity to treat sewage in these cities\towns. The Centre will bear 70% of the cost of these new projects," said the environment minister Prakash Javadekar, explaining how the STPs are important to stop filth from going into the river. 

Replying to a debate in Lok Sabha on Tuesday, the minister rued the poor functioning of the existing STPs in different states due to shortage of electricity and expressed the need to ensure proper functioning of these plants in future.

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PWD plan for waste water use at construction site

Panaji: When residents of two buildings in Campal flush their toilets in the near future, they need not feel a sense of guilt at tossing the state's precious resources down the drain.

If all goes well, PWD will pipe a small quantity of the 12.5 million litres daily (mld) of effluent water available at the sewage treatment (STP) at Tonca to the site where the two buildings are coming up for productive use, instead of flushing it wastefully into the Mandovi river.

Later, this pipeline to the construction site will be useful to supply water to the flats in the two buildings for flushing of toilets.

"We are in the process of floating a tender to lay a pipeline to Campal to allow the use of the water at the construction site," PWD executive engineer, Dilip Dhavalikar said.

PWD officials have claimed in the past that the STP effluent water is good enough for drinking. "The coliform and e coli parameters are important and they have to be nil. If the water is chlorinated in the final stage, then it can be used even for bathing," a source said.

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Water tanks to be built for Bhama Askhed project

THANE: The Thane water polo team had to be content with silver at the state championship against host Pune that won 12-6.
"We gave our best but the defense line of the Pune team was much stronger, which thwarted us to get into the net. We had to be content with the runners-up title," said Uday Uttekar, a leading player from Thane.

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Water tanks to be built for Bhama Askhed project

PUNE: The standing committee of Punemunicipal corporation has given approval for building seven water storage tanks as part of the scheme to procure water from BhamaAskhed dam for the city.

"Total seven tanks are to be built to start with. The tanks will be built in different areas on the Ahmednagar road. These areas include Kalas, Dhanori, Vadgaonsheri, Yerawada, Wagholi and Kharadi," said Bapu Karne, chairman of the standing committee. The committee took the decision in a meeting on Tuesday . 

The Bhama Askhed project will have a 42-km pipeline from the dam to the Pune Municipal Corporation limits. Two km of the pipeline will be on private property. According to a government resolution, 1.3 TMC water from Bhama Askhed has been allocated to PMC to meet its drinking water needs.

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