3 sewage management projects worth over Rs. 661 crores were approved for Uttar Pradesh. Committee also approves project for preparation of urban river management plans for 60 cities.
WD News: The 50th meeting of executive committee of National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) was held earlier this month, under the chairmanship of G Asok Kumar, DG, NMCG, where seven projects worth around Rs. 692 crores were approved.
Out of the seven projects, four pertain to sewage management in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. NMCG has so far sanctioned a total of 452 projects worth around Rs. 38,126 crores out of which 254 have been completed.
For sewage management in Uttar Pradesh, 3 projects worth Rs. 661.74 crores were approved. These include creation of a 100 Million Litres per Day (MLD) STP in Lucknow along with Interception and Diversion (I&D) works under Hybrid Annuity Mode (HAM).
Another project for I&D of balance discharge of drains and construction of a 50 MLD STP in Prayagraj was approved. This project, costing around Rs. 186.47 crore, will augment existing treatment capacity of Naini STP in sewerage district-A in Prayagraj to 80 MLD.
In a smaller project, a 6 MLD STP, I&D and other works in Hapur were also approved to stop the flow of Hapur city drain into River Kali, which is a tributary of River Ganga.
Two STPs (5 and 7 MLDs) at an estimated cost of Rs. 74.64 crore for tapping of two drains along with I&D works was also approved for Raxaul town in Bihar. This project will abate pollution in Sirsiya River that originates in Nepal and enters Bihar at Raxaul in East Champaran district.
A project envisaging preparation of 60-70 Urban River Management Plans (URMPs) in two phases has also been approved costing around Rs 20 crore. During first year, 25 URMPs shall be prepared and 35 URMPs shall be prepared during second year. First phase would cover 25 cities from 5 main stem Ganga basin states: Dehradun, Haridwar, Rishikesh, Haldwani & Nainital in Uttarakhand; Lucknow, Varanasi, Agra, Saharanpur & Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh; Patna, Darbhanga, Gaya, Purnea and Katihar in Bihar; Ranchi, Adityapur, Medininagar, Giridih and Dhanbad in Jharkhand and Asansol, Durgapur, Siliguri, Nabadwip and Howrah in West Bengal. This project is part of River-Cities Alliance (RCA) under Namami Gange, which provides cities opportunities to cooperate, work together, learn from each other’s best practices, share knowledge, thus paving the way for Gyan Bhagidari, which will lead to transformational solutions. This project will be World Bank funded.
One project was approved for initiation of M.Sc. Course in Freshwater Ecology and Conservation at Ganga Aqualife Conservation Monitoring Centre, Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun at an estimated cost of Rs. 6.86 crore for 10 years.
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