Ganga pollution: Govt seeks action plans from municipalities
27 March 2015 5:00 AM IST
The National Mission on Clean Ganga (NMCG) has directed 118 municipalities, ULBs in UP, Uttarakhand, Bihar, Jharkhand and West-Bengal and 687 industrial units in the states of UP, Uttarakhand, Bihar and West-Bengal to furnish the action plans directly to the concerned State Program Management Group (SPMGs) in the respective state with a copy to the NMCG, a Water Resources Ministry release here on Wednesday said.
The report sought concern construction/rehabilitation or upgradation of the sewage treatment plants (STPs), installation of requisite equipments/augmentation of the STPs by such municipalities/ urban local bodies and Effluent Treatment Plants/Common Effluent Treatment Plant (ETPs/CETPs), zero liquid discharge/real time monitoring for the discharge of trade effluents for abatement of pollution by the industries, it said. "In the event of non-compliance of the notice, the NMCG will be constrained to take all necessary steps and make necessary submissions before the Supreme Court and before the National Green Tribunal, besides taking such other legal actions as may be deemed appropriate," the release said. Ganga is facing serious threats due to discharge of increasing quantities of sewage effluents, trade effluents and other pollutants on account of rapid urbanisation and industrialisation.
PM to chair National Ganga River Basin Authority meet today
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose government has given top priority to cleaning the Ganga, would chair the fifth meeting of National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) on Thursday. The Prime Minister is the the ex-officio Chairman of the Authority while Chief Ministers of Bihar, West Bengal, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand are its members. The meeting comes at a time when BJP-led NDA government at Centre has given thrust on cleaning up the polluted river and charting out plans for it. The previous meeting was held on October 27 last year, which was chaired by Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti. Constituted in 2009.
The report sought concern construction/rehabilitation or upgradation of the sewage treatment plants (STPs), installation of requisite equipments/augmentation of the STPs by such municipalities/ urban local bodies and Effluent Treatment Plants/Common Effluent Treatment Plant (ETPs/CETPs), zero liquid discharge/real time monitoring for the discharge of trade effluents for abatement of pollution by the industries, it said. "In the event of non-compliance of the notice, the NMCG will be constrained to take all necessary steps and make necessary submissions before the Supreme Court and before the National Green Tribunal, besides taking such other legal actions as may be deemed appropriate," the release said. Ganga is facing serious threats due to discharge of increasing quantities of sewage effluents, trade effluents and other pollutants on account of rapid urbanisation and industrialisation.
PM to chair National Ganga River Basin Authority meet today
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose government has given top priority to cleaning the Ganga, would chair the fifth meeting of National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) on Thursday. The Prime Minister is the the ex-officio Chairman of the Authority while Chief Ministers of Bihar, West Bengal, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand are its members. The meeting comes at a time when BJP-led NDA government at Centre has given thrust on cleaning up the polluted river and charting out plans for it. The previous meeting was held on October 27 last year, which was chaired by Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti. Constituted in 2009.
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