New Delhi [India], April 15 (ANI): Desilting of 32.58 km out of the 90.34 km of the trunk/peripheral sewer traces has been accomplished and the remaining work will likely be accomplished by June this 12 months, learn an announcement issued by Delhi Lieutenant Governor’s (LG) workplace.
Delhi LG Vinay Kumar Saxena has reviewed the progress of works concerning the desilting of trunk sewer traces and trapping of sub-drains falling into the Najafgarh drains yesterday, knowledgeable the assertion.
The assertion knowledgeable that Saxena, who can also be the chairman of NGT-appointed High-Level Committee (HLC) for the rejuvenation of river Yamuna, on Friday reiterated that the flood plains and Ghats of the Yamuna will likely be cleaned by June 30 this 12 months, whereas different works will proceed concurrently.
Ever since, the L-G took cost as chairman of the HLC, after the NGT’s order of January 9 this 12 months, he has chaired 3 month-to-month conferences of the committee, aside from reviewing the progress of works via a number of intermittent conferences with involved officers, the assertion stated.
It was knowledgeable that, of the 90.34 trunk/peripheral sewer traces focused to be desilted by June 2023, 32.58 kms have been accomplished already and the remaining will likely be accomplished properly inside June when the monsoon units in. The L-G directed that the remaining 530 kms of sewer traces is to be accomplished by the tip of this 12 months.
The assertion additional stated that main sewer traces the place works have been accomplished or are in progress until now, are Moti Nagar trunk, Gravity duct I, Keshavpur and Nilothi trunk, Kalyan Vihar, GT Road, Vijay Nagar, and many others. on Narela and Coronation Pillar trunk, Okhla trunk and Dwarka trunk.
The L-G was knowledgeable that of the 44 main sub-drains falling into the Najafgarh drain recognized for trapping, 17 had already been trapped and the remaining will likely be trapped by October 2023. The main sub-drains trapped until now embody Hakikat Nagar drain, Shakti Nagar sub-drain 2, Rana Pratap Bagh drain and Balak Ram drain, added the assertion.
Further, in response to the discharge, of the 30 sub-drains falling into the Supplementary Drain, 13 drains had been trapped and the remaining will likely be trapped by October 2023. The sub-drains trapped embody the Badli sub-drain, Wazirabad sub-drain and Rohini Sector 16 sub-drain.
“It has been established that about 70% of pollution in the Yamuna is due to the untreated sewerage brought into the river from the Najafgarh drain. The Najafgarh drain, in turn, gets this untreated sewer from the sub-drains falling into it,” learn the assertion.
The root reason for this untreated sewage is the truth that the trunk and peripheral sewer traces have been choked to as a lot as 90% of their capability as a consequence of their desilting not having been carried out by the Delhi Jal Board for the final 08 years. Choked and silted sewer traces result in sewerage overflowing into storm water drains that fall into the Najafgarh drain, the discharge stated.
Further, as per the assertion, these sewer traces that are imagined to be desilted and cleaned frequently are supposed to hold the sewerage to STPs for remedy, earlier than reaching the Yamuna. (ANI)