New Delhi [India], February 22 (ANI): The National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) on Wednesday held the forty seventh assembly of the Executive Committee of NMCG underneath the chairmanship of G. Asok Kumar, Director General, NMCG. Nine tasks value round Rs. 1,278 crore have been accepted within the assembly. Out of them, seven pertain to abatement of air pollution within the Ganga Basin and two to ghat improvement, mentioned a press launch by the Ministry of Jal Shakti.
In the principle stem of River Ganga, a challenge in West Bengal value Rs. 123.02 crores was accepted for the creation of a 13 MLD STP and a 300 KLD decentralized STP at Chakdaha Municipal Town.
In Uttar Pradesh, three tasks have been accepted value Rs 422 crore. These embrace a challenge to intercept and divert 13 drains by augmenting the sewage remedy capability of Salori STP by 43 MLD in Prayagraj.
Construction of 1 20 KLD faecal sludge co-treatment facility can also be a part of this challenge. Another challenge in Uttar Pradesh pertains to the rejuvenation of River Kali East by the event of an in-situ Constructed Wetland System at 8 places in Muzaffarnagar, Meerut, Hapur and Bulandshahar was accepted costing Rs. 95.47 crore.
The wetland development consists of constructing preparations for horizontal and vertical filtration by creating oxidation, filtration segments in addition to plantation contained in the waterway at one location. The advantage of the methodology to be adopted is not any change within the morphology of the riverno obstruction within the waterway throughout the flood.
For that improvement, one challenge value Rs. 2.84 crores was accepted for Nageshwar Dham Ashram ghat in Fatehpur.
A challenge for the event of two Sewage Treatment Plants (10.91 MLD and 10.66 MLD) for air pollution abatement in River Ganga at an estimated value of Rs. 94.12 crore was accepted for Lakhisarai city in Bihar.
For ghat improvement in Bihar, one challenge for the event of Atal Ghat Manjhi, Saran, Bihar was additionally given a go-ahead at an estimated value of Rs. 10.04 crore. Atal Ghat challenge contains the event of ghat space for bathing, amenities, area for Pooja and different spiritual actions, ingesting water factors, flood lights for evening, place for ‘shraad’ pooja and ‘mundan’, landscaping and moist and dry dustbins for segregation of waste on the supply.
Two tasks have been positioned earlier than the Executive Committee for Madhya Pradesh for approval, out of which a serious challenge costing Rs. 511.15 crores was accepted to abate air pollution in Rivers Kahn and Saraswati in Indore. The challenge envisages the development of two STPs of 120 MLD, 40 MLD and 35 MLD capacities. An necessary part of this challenge is the creation of a handled water reuse community with 120 MLD and 35 MLD capability STPs.
Another proposed challenge in Madhya Pradesh was for the development of a 22 MLD STP and a pair of.35 MLD Effluent Treatment Plant in Ujjain city at an estimated value of Rs. 92.78 crore for air pollution abatement in River Kshipra. This challenge, nevertheless, was referred to for additional clarification.
For the monitoring of commercial air pollution, a challenge titled ‘Pollution Inventorization, Assessment and Surveillance on River Ganga Basin (PIAS) piloted by Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) have been accepted at an estimated value of Rs. 114.42 crore. The challenge envisages annual updation of stock, annual inspection of Gross Polluting Industries (GPIs) by a Third Party, annual inspection of GPI by CPCB, monitoring of Recipient Drains of ExtremelyPolluting Industries and Industrial Clusters, monitoring of drains, monitoring of STPs, monitoring of CETPs, Online Continuous Emission MonitoringSystem (OCEMS) /Dashboard/IT portal.
A primary-of-its-kind challenge titled ‘Survey, Investigation for Rejuvenation and Conservation of Shahdara Drain with nature-based remedy – Soil Biotechnology (SBT) was additionally accepted value Rs. 1.9 crore. The challenge envisages drone survey, bathymetric survey, subject survey/knowledge assortment and investigation of Inlet Drain Discharge, Water QualityTesting and Soil/Sludge Properties.
Himansu Badoni, Executive Director (Projects), NMCG, S.P. Vashishtha, Executive Director (Admin.), NMCG, Bhaskar Dasgupta, Executive Director (Finance), NMCG, D.P. Mathuria, Executive Director (Technical), NMCG, Richa Misra, Joint Secretary and Financial Advisor, Department of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, Ministry of Jal Shakti, senior officers from the states involved additionally attended the assembly. (ANI)