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The Central government has given administrative approval to Maharashtra’s 18,236.39 crore plan under the Mission. “This includes NMC’s south sewage disposal project,” said municipal commissioner and administrator Abhijeet Chaudhary.
Of the 957.01 crore project cost, both the Central and state government will contribute 25% of the project cost each, while the NMC will bear the remaining 50% (or 478.51 crore), Chaudhary said. As per the Amrut 2.0 campaign guidelines, the share of Central funds will be disbursed in tranches of 20%, 40% and 40%.
The project will be implemented in areas where Pora river flows in southwest part of the city. A new 253km sewage disposal network will be laid in Laxmi Nagar, Hanuman Nagar, Dhantoli zones and some parts of Nehru Nagar zone, and 164km in the Hudkeshwar-Narsala area.
Two sewage treatment plants (STPs) will also be built as a part of the project at Chikhli and Jaitala. The Chikli STP will have a capacity to treat 35 million litres a day (MLD), while Jaitala STP will treat 10MLD, said a senior official of the public health engineering department. This part of the city generates around 150MLD of sewage water which is largely discharged into Pora river.
Of the 150 MLD, the NMC treats almost 75MLD at its Bhandewadi STP. The Nagpur Improvement Trust — the city’s other urban development authority — is in the process of installing STP to treat 40 MLD waste. The additional treatment of 45MLD sewage water under Amrut 2.0 scheme will help in making the Pora river free of carrying sewage water and will thus will help in making this part of the city free of floods, the senior official added.
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