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Lalmani Verma
Posted: Friday, Dec 11, 2009 at 0406 hrs
Lucknow:
The Ministry of Environment, Government of India, has approved a 140-million litre daily sewage treatment plant and sewerage system for Varanasi. The Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam is all set to initiate the tender process for this Rs 494-crore project.
On October 5, the Ganga River Basin Authority had asked its member states — UP, Bihar, Uttarakhand and Bengal — to draft strategies for checking discharge of untreated sewage in the Ganga. Following this directive, the UP Jal Nigam had prepared detailed project reports of STPs for Varanasi, Allahabad and Kanpur.
These towns were chosen because the discharge of untreated sewage in Ganga river is maximum in these towns.
“While the project for Varanasi has been approved, those for the other two cities are under process,” said Alok Ranjan, principal secretary of Urban Development.
He said the land for setting up the STP had been identified in Satva area in Varanasi.
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