NEW DELHI: Delhi and Haryana on Sunday agreed to keep their end of the bargain by deciding to take remedial measures for curtailing pollution in the Yamuna. At a meeting presided over by Union Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh, Chief Ministers of Delhi and Haryana were handed over the to-do list for ensuring that untreated effluents are not released into the river.
Addressing media persons after the meeting held at Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's residence, Mr. Ramesh said: “There are three decisions that have been taken. The first is that a monitoring unit will be set up by the Central Pollution Control Board to keep a check on water quality.”
The real-time online water monitoring system installed at Wazirabad will test the water quality on a real-time basis and put out the report online for the stakeholders. Two more monitoring units will be subsequently set up at Palla and Badarpur to check the quality of water entering Delhi and released from Delhi.
The monitoring system is expected to end squabbling over pollution levels in the river. “This will end the daily controversy on the quality and whether or not the ammonia levels are high in the water. Both Haryana and Delhi will get the reports and take action,” said the Minister.
The second measure is to augment the sewage treatment capacity in Haryana. Following the CPCB inspection of Haryana's industrial sector Panipat from where the untreated effluents are allegedly released into the river, it has been decided to set up a sewage treatment plant at the outfall of Panipat drain to stop all untreated effluents from entering the river.
“The effluent treatment system in Haryana is not running to its full capacity, the Common Effluent Treatment Plant in Panipat has to have 512 units connected to it, whereas there are only 35 so far. The Environment and Forests Ministry has offered financial assistance under the National River Conservation Plan to strengthen their effluents treatment system so that no untreated effluents infiltrate into the river,” the Minister said.
Finally, to arrest the flow of untreated effluents from Delhi into the river, the Minister proposed that under the Yamuna Action Plan-III, a Rs.1,650 crore will be assigned to modernise the existing sewage treatment system in Delhi. “YAP-III will focus only on Delhi. We will soon get the Union Cabinet clearance for allotment of Rs.1,400 crore that is the Centre's share and comes as assistance from Japan to be used for modernising the sewerage network in Delhi. It is a big challenge to ensure that the effluents from 26 drains are not allowed to mix with the river,” the Minister said
Source: The Hindu, 28-3-2011
Addressing media persons after the meeting held at Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's residence, Mr. Ramesh said: “There are three decisions that have been taken. The first is that a monitoring unit will be set up by the Central Pollution Control Board to keep a check on water quality.”
The real-time online water monitoring system installed at Wazirabad will test the water quality on a real-time basis and put out the report online for the stakeholders. Two more monitoring units will be subsequently set up at Palla and Badarpur to check the quality of water entering Delhi and released from Delhi.
The monitoring system is expected to end squabbling over pollution levels in the river. “This will end the daily controversy on the quality and whether or not the ammonia levels are high in the water. Both Haryana and Delhi will get the reports and take action,” said the Minister.
The second measure is to augment the sewage treatment capacity in Haryana. Following the CPCB inspection of Haryana's industrial sector Panipat from where the untreated effluents are allegedly released into the river, it has been decided to set up a sewage treatment plant at the outfall of Panipat drain to stop all untreated effluents from entering the river.
“The effluent treatment system in Haryana is not running to its full capacity, the Common Effluent Treatment Plant in Panipat has to have 512 units connected to it, whereas there are only 35 so far. The Environment and Forests Ministry has offered financial assistance under the National River Conservation Plan to strengthen their effluents treatment system so that no untreated effluents infiltrate into the river,” the Minister said.
Finally, to arrest the flow of untreated effluents from Delhi into the river, the Minister proposed that under the Yamuna Action Plan-III, a Rs.1,650 crore will be assigned to modernise the existing sewage treatment system in Delhi. “YAP-III will focus only on Delhi. We will soon get the Union Cabinet clearance for allotment of Rs.1,400 crore that is the Centre's share and comes as assistance from Japan to be used for modernising the sewerage network in Delhi. It is a big challenge to ensure that the effluents from 26 drains are not allowed to mix with the river,” the Minister said
Source: The Hindu, 28-3-2011
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