New Delhi: The Director General, National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), Rajiv Ranjan Mishra today approved new projects for rejuvenation of 6 polluted river stretches in Uttarakhand. The proposals from State Mission, Uttarakhand for these polluted stretches were under review by National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG).
The polluted stretches are on rivers Bhela, Dhela, Kichha, Kosi, Nandhore, Pilakhar and Kashipur. The Sewerage (I&D) Scheme for Dhela River Phase-1 of District Udham Singh Nagar, Uttarakhand under Namami Gange Programme was sanctioned Rs. 199.36 Crore. The project will ensure tapping of a total of 17 nalas which will be intercepted and diverted to 9 sewage treatment plants (STPs) to be constructed under this project for a total treatment capacity of 30.30 MLD.
The project shall cover the 6 polluted river stretches in the Kumaon region. Out of the rest 3 polluted stretches, project of Ganga at Jagjeetpur, Haridwar has already been commissioned and on the remaining two, Namami Gange projects are already under execution. With this project, all the polluted stretches in the state of Uttarakhand have been covered under pollution abatement projects, the Ministry of Jal Shakti stated today. An important and progressive feature of the project is comprehensive sludge management arrangements and provision for co-treatment of septage in all these STPs, it added.
As per the report of CPCB identifying polluted stretches of the rivers in the country, there were a total of 9 polluted stretches in Uttarakhand state and 6 of them were in district Udham Singh Nagar on various tributaries or small rivers such as Bhela, Dhela, Kichha, Nandor, Pilankha and Kosi and 02 (Two) stretches were on Rispana-Bindal and Suswa, which are being covered in the I&D Rispana-Bindal project which is under execution under the Namami Gange Programme, while one stretch was on main river Ganga (downstream Jagjeetpur) already covered by the Jagjeetpur STP project.
The progress of action plan of states for polluted stretches are being reviewed by the central monitoring committee. The Union Minister for Jal Shakti, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, also recently reviewed these projects and the state government at Ministerial level also made a representation to him.
– global bihari bureau
