Setting up Effluent Treatment Plants

21/01/2019

River Rejuvenation Committee has fixed six to 18 months' time-frame for all the concerned agencies of the State for abatement of pollution in the identified stretches of nine major rivers and streams of Jammu and Kashmir in the Action Plan submitted to the Central Pollution Control Board. The River Rejuvenation Committee was constituted vide Government Order No.1770 dated December 17, 2018 in the light of the orders of the National Green Tribunal in Original Application No.673/2018. The Committee submitted Action Plan for identified polluted stretches of nine major rivers and streams of the State to the Central Pollution Control Board for approval, which is expected shortly. About polluted stretch of River Tawi the River Rejuvenation Committee, while expressing concern over inordinate delay in completion of sewer works particularly in Jammu city, has laid stress on gearing up of the works by the National Building Construction Corporation (NBCC) so as to complete the project by current year end in all probability. It is pertinent to mention here that the project was to be completed by March 2018 but because of varied reasons including delay in release of funds the target was missed and still work is pending.
Out of three Effluent Treatment Plants constructed by Urban Environment Engineering Department (UEED) two are functional while as third one is yet to be made operational and even one functional Effluent Treatment Plant is not being used up to its full capacity because of delay in completion of underground channel works. About five kilometre polluted stretch of Basantar River in Samba, sources said that Effluent Treatment Plant for abatement of pollution was sanctioned long time back and it was to be established by SIDCO but no significant progress has been made till date and River Rejuvenation Committee has laid stress on early start of work on the plant, which would have the capacity to check flow of effluent from the Industrial Growth Centre Samba to River Basantar. With regard to polluted stretch of River Chuntkol, a tributary of Jhelum, in Kashmir valley, the River Rejuvenation Committee has suggested immediate removal of all the lavatories of both Government and private by the concerned Municipal Committee. Had all the concerned Municipal Bodies, Urban Environment Engineering Department and other agencies acted well in time the vast stretches of nine major rivers and streams could have been prevented from turning polluted.

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