New Delhi [India], October 1 (ANI): The National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) held the forty fifth assembly of the Executive Committee beneath the chairmanship of G Asok Kumar, Director General, NMCG and accepted 14 tasks value Rs 1145 crores, stated the Ministry of Jal Shakti on Saturday.
The accepted tasks pertain to sewerage administration, industrial air pollution abatement, Biodiversity Conservation, Afforestation, River Front Development and Decentralized Wastewater Treatment and embrace eight tasks of sewerage administration in 5 primary stem Ganga basin states – Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal.
For sewerage administration, 4 tasks in Uttar Pradesh have been accepted together with the tapping of the Assi drain in Varanasi by developing a 55 MLD Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) and different works costing Rs 308.09 crores.
“The project was sanctioned with the objective of achieving zero untreated discharge from three drains – Assi, Sanme ghat and Nakhha. Other projects include construction of 13 MLD STP, renovation of existing structures etc. in Vrindavan City costing Rs 77.70 crores, construction of 12 MLD STP, laying of interception and diversion (ID) network etc. in Kosi Kalan town in Mathura district costing Rs 66.59 crores and 6 MLD STP, laying of ID network etc. in Chhata town in Mathura district,” learn an official assertion.
The above tasks in Mathura-Vrindavan envisage intercepting and diverting 2, 1 and 11 drains respectively which have their outfall into Kosi drain, which in the end discharges into River Yamuna at Mathura. All the above tasks are inclusive of the Operation and Maintenance of the property for 15 years.
One challenge of sewerage administration has additionally been accepted for Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand every together with the development of two STPs (17 MLD and 23 MLD).
This contains essential ancillary infrastructures, SCADA and on-line monitoring system and so on. in Ramgarh city, Jharkhand costing Rs. 284.80 crores, development of fifty MLD STP, renovation of current buildings and so on. in Keorapukur, West Bengal costing Rs. 67.06 crores. The challenge in Bihar at an estimated price of 47.39 crore consists of two STPs (2.5 MLD on River Harbora and 4.5 MLD on Belwa Sathi canal), ID networks, consumption wells and so on.
A challenge for the development of 13 MLD STP and different works was additionally accepted in Sapera Basti, Dehradun, Uttarakhand costing Rs. 74.38 crores. This challenge will cease untreated sewage from flowing into River Sushwa.
A giant challenge for the institution of 4 Biodiversity Parks in 4 districts of Uttar Pradesh – Hapur, Bulandshahar, Badaun and Mirzapur – has additionally been accepted at an estimated price of Rs. 24.97 crores.
All 4 areas are located alongside the Gangetic floodplains. The proposed parks are a part of Reserve Forests alongside Gangetic floodplains and can play a key position in river restoration and conservation of biodiversity.
“The details of the Biodiversity Parks are Mohanpur Biodiversity Park in Mirzapur, Ramghat Biodiversity Park in Bulandshahar, Alamgirpur Biodiversity Park in Hapur and Ujhani Biodiversity Park in Budaun. These sites are rich in floral and faunal diversity and have heterogeneous habitats. On restoration, the biodiversity would further enrich with biomass, flow regime, climate resilience and enhancement in livelihood in the Ganga river basin,” it added.
The Biodiversity Parks will even present a novel panorama of wilderness with an assemblage of native plant and animal species that kind self-sustaining organic communities recreated in a area and serve each in-situ and ex-situ conservation of biodiversity, gene pool, and ecosystem providers in a pure and agricultural panorama. The general final result of the Ganga Biodiversity Parks would assist to maintain ecosystem providers, biodiversity and rejuvenation of the river Ganga at a basin scale.
Under the Afforestation part, a challenge at an estimated price of Rs. 1.56 crore was accepted for the State of Jharkhand.
The interventions search improved forest cowl, enhanced forest range and productiveness, biodiversity conservation and sustainable land and ecosystem administration for higher circulate of ecosystem providers, sustainable livelihood and general conservation of Ganga River scape.
This challenge is a part of the Annual Plan of Operation (APO) ready by the Forest Department of Jharkhand primarily based on the DPR ready by the Forest Research Institute, Dehradun for the creation of an enabling atmosphere for local weather resilient and sustainable ecosystem administration method, adopting neighborhood participatory method in forestry interventions and conservation actions in several landscapes and enhancing the capability of the forest and line division for up-scaling and mainstreaming of greatest practices developed for Riverscape administration.
For River Front Development, a ghat improvement challenge within the Jaunpur district of Uttar Pradesh was additionally accepted at an estimated price of Rs. 5.07 crore.
The location of the challenge is a vital pilgrimage website attracting plenty of folks throughout festive seasons to take a holy dip in River Gomti, a tributary of River Ganga.
The challenge contains the development of a 4m vast strolling promenade connecting Hanuman Ghat with Sadbhavna Bridge, ghat steps, landscaping, rest room blocks and so on. Another challenge for the development of an electrical crematorium at Kaliganj, Murshidabad, West Bengal costing Rs. 4.14 crore was additionally accepted.
A challenge for ‘Pollution Prevention and Effective Waste Management of Panipat Textile Cluster to Optimize the Trade Potential’ has additionally been accepted at an estimated price of Rs. 18.95 crores within the EC assembly.
The principal goal of the challenge is to enhance the water high quality of river Ganga in addition to river Yamuna by avoiding the discharge of untreated effluent into river Ganga/river Yamuna by stopping the discharge of effluent from the textile cluster.
The challenge goals to scale back water consumption (as much as 30 per cent) by adopting Best Management practices, decreasing wastewater discharge (air pollution load) by the demonstration of inexperienced applied sciences and creating of in-house Chemical Management System (discount in consumption of chemical compounds by 25 per cent), promote the environment friendly working of Effluent Treatment Plants, enhance the standard of handled effluent.
The challenge additionally appears to be like to offer in-depth coaching and generate inner groups to develop their very own techniques for high quality, environmental features, staff’ talent improvement, conservation of pure sources and so on. for continuous enhancements.
The EC additionally accepted indicative funds of Rs 45 crore for the set up of decentralized wastewater remedy techniques in the principle stem Ganga basin States.
The fund bifurcation is Rs 10 crore every for Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal and Rs. 5 crores to Jharkhand. For decentralized wastewater remedy, the tasks could be taken up beneath any confirmed expertise working within the nation like nature-based options, Johkasou and so on.
Some of the benefits of decentralized wastewater remedy embrace higher monitoring of business waste, simpler growth of techniques, new remedy centres that may be added with out routing ever extra flows to current middle, lesser funding for the sewer pipelines and so on. (ANI)