New STPs in Patna to stop sewage flow into Ganga

Patna - an ancient city sprawling along the south bank of the Ganga River! Its growing population is leading to an increased outflow of domestic wastewater. However, the existing sewage treatment plants in Patna have long outlived their utility. The old sewer lines are choked and untreated water flows into the Ganga. Under the Namami Gange Programme, the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) has put in place a comprehensive sewage management plan to ensure that no wastewater is discharged into the river. Patna has been divided into 6 zones and new Sewage Treatment Plants (STPs) are being constructed. In order to revamp the sewage management system in the city, NMCG has approved 11 projects worth over Rs 3,500 crore that will involve laying down 1,140 km of sewerage lines and create sewage treatment capacity of 350 MLD. This would cover the sewage treatment requirements of the city up to 2035 when its sewage generation is estimated to be 320 MLD. Work on most projects under Namami Gange scheme in Patna is in the final stages. Beur and Karmalichak STPs will together treat 80 million litres of wastewater per day through a sewerage network of 277 kilometres. The estimated cost of the Karmalichak STP is about Rs. 77 crore and the Beur STP will cost Rs. 68 crore. Work on two other sewage plants, 60 MLD STP in Saidpur Pahari and another 60 MLD STP at Pahari, is also near completion. In Bihar, Namami Gange sewerage infrastructure projects have been sanctioned in 18 towns at a cost of over Rs. 5,000 crores. The present sewage treatment capacity of towns along the Ganga is only 64 million litres per day (MLD) which is being enhanced almost 10 times to 643 MLD through the Namami Gange projects.

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