Delhi govt to reduce Yamuna pollution by 90% by March 2023: CM Arvind Kejriwal
NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief Minister Shri Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday chaired a gathering with the officers of the Delhi Jal Board on swift implementation of a concrete plan to wash up the river Yamuna and cut back air pollution within the Yamuna by 90% by March 2023.
In the assembly, the Delhi Jal Board offered an in depth motion plan on the reuse of round 400 MGD, in opposition to the prevailing capability of 90 MGD of water. Various steps will probably be taken to enhance the standard of the prevailing STPs together with upgrading all of the tools within the STPs. Water Minister Shri Satyendar Jain, CEO DJB Nikhil Kumar, and senior officers of the DJB had been current within the assembly.
The Delhi Jal Board gave an in depth presentation on 4 main interventions devised for the cleansing up of river Yamuna. First, the Delhi authorities will arrange a contemporary expertise to deal with round 150 MGD of polluted water coming from the states of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh by pure wetlands and aeration technique.
Second, the wastewater within the small or massive drains will probably be tapped into Sewage Treatment Plants (STPs).
Third, steps will probably be taken to enhance the standard of the prevailing STPs together with upgrading all of the tools and use progressive processes. Fourth, all of the sludge and the septage from the septic tanks throughout Delhi, will probably be collected by the Delhi Jal Board and reused within the bio-gas vegetation to generate electrical energy and gasoline.
There are 5 main outfalls carrying wastewater into the Yamuna, together with Najafgarh drain, Shahdara drain, Barapulla drain, Delhi Gate drain, Mori Gate drain. The Najafgarh and Shadhdara drain other than Delhi wastewater additionally obtain polluted water from Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. The STPs and the drains will probably be handled as per the Yamuna Cleaning plan of the Delhi authorities to stop polluted water to move into the Yamuna.
The Delhi Jal Board has offered an motion plan to cut back 90% of air pollution within the river Yamuna by March 2023, and all of the steps may have totally different milestones to be accomplished by March 2021, 2022, and 2023.
The STPs deal with round 525 MGD of water earlier than it flows into drains, out of which solely 90 MGD is reused for various functions. An motion plan to reuse 436 MGD of water in opposition to the sooner reuse of 90 MGD has been offered by the DJB earlier than the CM. This 436 MGD water will probably be reused in water our bodies, lakes, irrigation, gardening, forests, groundwater recharge, and many others.
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