Effluents Polluting Ganga River
As per data available
from Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), the total sewage
generation in Ganga basin states from all the Class-I and Class-II cities is 11386.60 Million Liters per Day (MLD).
The total
industrial effluent generation discharging into river Ganga is 501 MLD.
Industry wise effluent generation is tabulated below:-
|
Sector specific
industrial wastewater generation
|
|
(Type of Industry
|
Total Units
|
Wastewater
Generation (MLD)
|
|
Chemical
|
27
|
97.8
|
|
Distillery
|
35
|
37.0
|
|
Food, Dairy & Beverage
|
22
|
6.5
|
|
Pulp & Paper
|
67
|
201.4
|
|
Sugar
|
67
|
96.0
|
|
Textile, Bleaching & Dyeing
|
63
|
11.4
|
|
Tannery
|
442
|
22.1
|
|
Others
|
41
|
28.6
|
|
Total
|
764
|
501
|
Government of India has
released Rs. 4321.05 crore till date i.e. 28.02.2017 to National Mission for
Clean Ganga (NMCG) out of which NMCG has spent Rs. 1984.49 crore.
143 projects have been sanctioned under
Namami Gange Programme (including the existing projects sanctioned under
National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) Programme) till 31st
January 2017, for cleaning of river Ganga. Namami Gange Programme envisages to spend
a sum of Rs. 20,000/- crore till the year 2020.
This
information was given by Union Minister of State for Water Resources, River
Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Shri Vijay Goel in a written reply in Lok Sabha today.
Samir/jk
(Release ID :158998)
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