India, Japan cleaning Yamuna River
This information was given by the Minister of State for the Ministry of Finance Namo Narain Meena who is Incharge of Environment and Forests in a written reply in Lok Sabha today.
An amount of Rs 1272.74 crore has been spent on various pollution abatement works under the phase - I and phase - II of the Plan so far.
A total of 286 schemes including 38 sewage treatment plants have been completed in 21 towns of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Delhi and 753.25 million litres per day of sewage treatment capacity has been created
Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) is regularly monitoring the water quality of River Yamuna at various locations. The water quality in the stretch of the river Yamuna from Tajewala to Palla in Haryana is found to be within the prescribed limits.
However, the stretch of the river in the vicinity of Delhi (downstream of Wazirabad barrage to upstream of Okhla barrage) and in parts of Uttar Pradesh does not meet the standards in terms of Bio-chemical Oxygen Demand.
The water quality of Yamuna has not shown the desired improvement owing to a large gap between the demand and availability of sewage treatment capacity and lack of fresh water in the river.
To ensure that only treated effluent is discharged into the river Yamuna in its Delhi stretch, which contributes the maximum pollution load to the river, Delhi Jal Board (DJB) has prepared schemes for laying of interceptor sewers along three major drains namely Najafgarh, Shahdara and Supplementary, augmentation of sewage treatment capacity, interception of drains, rehabilitation of trunk sewers, laying of sewerage system in unsewered colonies and rural areas and desilting of peripheral/internal sewers. The interceptor sewer project has been approved by the Cabinet Committee On Economic Affairs (CCEA) under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) of the Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) at a cost of Rs. 1357 crore.
Under YAP phase - III, it is proposed to rehabilitate the damaged trunk sewers to maximize the utilization of available treatment capacity, rehabilitate and modernize the STPs in three catchment areas of Delhi namely Okhla, Kondli and Rithala, Construction of a new state of art STP in place of old STP of 136 MLD capacity at Okhla and to equip them with tertiary level treatment facilities to improve the water quality of river Yamuna. (IBNS -Posted on / )
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