Sewage Treatment Plants Under Gap
Namami
Gange aims to focus on pollution abatement interventions namely
Interception, diversion & treatment of waste water flowing through
the open drains through bio-remediation / appropriate in-situ treatment /
use of innovative technologies / Sewage Treatment Plant (STPs) /
Effluent Treatment Plants (ETPs); rehabilitation and augmentation of
existing STPs and Immediate short term measures for arresting pollution
at exit points on river front to prevent inflow of sewage etc. into the
river; Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) for major industrial
clusters and Operation & Maintenance (O&M) for a definite period
etc. Apart from these projects, interventions on rural sanitation,
river front development / management, solid waste / pious refuse
management, sewerage network, river surface cleaning, afforestation and
bio-diversity conservation also included.
Under Namami Gange Programme till 20th March 2017, 145
projects are sanctioned at an estimated cost of Rs 10,730.71 Crores. Out
of these 72 projects are sanctioned for creation of 932.84 million
litres per day (MLD) new STP and rehabilitation of 1091.00 MLD of STP
and laying/rehabilitation of 4031.41 km sewer network for abatement of
pollution in river Ganga and Yamuna. Till date 13 projects are completed
which has created 198.13 MLD STP capacity (153.1 MLD for river Ganga
and 45 MLD for Yamuna River) and laid 1147.75 km of sewerage network.
Under Ganga Action Plan (GAP-I) and GAP-II, 1098.31 MLD sewage treatment
capacity has been created. 261 projects were approved at an estimated
cost of Rs. 462.04 Crore. GAP-I was completed in 2000 at a total
expenditure of Rs. 455.73 Crore. All schemes under GAP – 1 have been
completed. Under GAP-II, 314 projects were approved at an estimated cost
of Rs 591.05 Crore. Total fund released by Government of India was Rs.
522.11 Crore. Later GAP scheme was merged with National River
Conservation Plan (NRCP) in 1996.
Namami Gange (Integrated Ganga Conservation Mission under National
Ganga River Basin Authority) programme was introduced in 2014 as an
umbrella programme, with the aim of integrating previous & currently
ongoing initiatives by enhancing efficiency, extracting synergies and
supplementing them with more comprehensive & better coordinated
interventions. The Cabinet approved the Namami Gange programme on 13th
May, 2015 for Rs. 20,000 crore. Component A of the Namami Gange program
comprises of all the ongoing programme including existing projects
sanctioned under National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) programme.
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
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