The National Ganga River Basin Authority(NGRBA) has approved the project to prevent the discharge of untreated municipal sewage and industrial effluent into the Ganga by 2020.
An estimated investment of Rs.15000 crore will be required over the next 10 years and negotiations with the World Bank have already begun for procuring $1 billion loan for 'MISSION CLEAN GANGA'.The resources will be provided by the Centre and States on a sharing basis over a 10-year period,after consultations with the Planning Commission.
Currently ,there is a sewage treatment capacity of 1000 mld against 3000 mld sewage being generated in the towns along the Ganga.An empowered steering committee will be set up for fast tracking clearance of projects.States have also been asked to formulate detailed project reports for new projects in the critical pollution hotspots and major towns along the Ganga. Tripartite agreements among the Centre,States and the local municipal bodies to earmark responsibilities will be signed next year.
An estimated investment of Rs.15000 crore will be required over the next 10 years and negotiations with the World Bank have already begun for procuring $1 billion loan for 'MISSION CLEAN GANGA'.The resources will be provided by the Centre and States on a sharing basis over a 10-year period,after consultations with the Planning Commission.
Currently ,there is a sewage treatment capacity of 1000 mld against 3000 mld sewage being generated in the towns along the Ganga.An empowered steering committee will be set up for fast tracking clearance of projects.States have also been asked to formulate detailed project reports for new projects in the critical pollution hotspots and major towns along the Ganga. Tripartite agreements among the Centre,States and the local municipal bodies to earmark responsibilities will be signed next year.
We have also done Yamuna Action Plan Project in our state and I had the oppurtunity to give my input in Panipat Town. Though we planned and executed the project meticulously, but after few years when I was again posted at Panipat, I saw the all the sewers are running full and manholes are also full upto top. Many unauthorized industries have put illegal waste in our sewers and our political set up is such that nothing was done to stop them in putting their industrial waste in our sewers. Since the quality of effluent also changed from residential to industrial, so in my view efficiency of the STP must have also been affected. So strict action with regard to illegal connections, political will and continuous efforts are required to make such projects successfull.
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The Ganga is revered across the world as a holy river.Over the years,it’s condition has deteriorated because of increasing pollution.The increasing population, mismanaged sewage and industrialization has caused serious implications for the Ganga.
ReplyDeleteNow,the Government is changing its approach towards cleaning the Ganga.With Rs 3,000 crore already down the drain in a bid to clean up the Ganga, Yamuna and three other rivers in Tamil Nadu over the last three decades, the newly-constituted National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) approved a new ‘Mission Clean Ganga’ with an estimated investment of Rs 15,000 crore over the next 10 years. Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar and West Bengal,the five States through which the Ganga flows are members of this authority.
This will bring the curtains down on Ganga Action Plan (GAP) I and II, in which an amount of Rs 822 crore was spent. Ganga Action Plan (GAP) was a program launched by Government of India in April 1985 in order to reduce the pollution load on the river. The program was launched with much fanfare, but it failed to decrease the pollution level in the rivers.GAP-I 1985 and GAP-II was launched in stages between 1993 and 1996. ‘Mission Clean Ganga’ focuses on riverfront development and catchment area treatment, unlike GAP which had its stress only on sewage treatment plants (STP).
There has to be proper allocation of resources and review of the progress to make this mission a success.
There is a need of collective effort in this regard from public also by promoting use of non-polluting technologies in our day-to-day life and mobilizing people to stress upon the State and Central Governments, as well as municipal bodies to install proper drainage facilities and sewage treatment plants.
In our country many good plans are formulated and implemented but the results obtained are not at all very fruitile.The Sewage Treatment Plants are well constructed but not maintained properly afterwards.The effluent is being bye-passed because the influent comes more than the designed limit as municipalties are also discharging the wastewater of open drains into public sewers or directoly into water bodies.
ReplyDeleteIndustries are also discharging their effluent untreated into drains or public sewers and some of these industries has very polluted sewage with high BOD values while our STP's are not designed for industrial effluents.
In my opinion for making the GAP a success only infrastructure should not be created but more emphasis should be given on change of mindset of public and politicians.