Chas Municipal Corporation (CMC) is at work to set up a sewage treatment plant (STP) aiming to prevent river water pollution. With an estimated investment of Rs 10 crore a sewage treatment unit is very soon to come-up at Bedani village under Chas block in Bokaro, informed S Alam Manager Township CMC.
Sewage water will be treated in the plant and later it will be supplied to Vedanta-ElectroSteel and other industrial units, said Alam adding “this treated water would also be utilized for horticulture as well as in gardening.”
About two acres of land has been identified at Bedani village; the land transfer process has also been completed, he said.
The responsibility of erection of the unit has been given to Jharkhand Urban Infrastructure Development Company (JUIDCO) that handed over the work to BTL, official sources said.
JUDICO has started the door-to-door survey and collecting data about the excretion of sewage water from each and every house within the municipal limits, he said.
Meanwhile, the state government has also initiated work to set up STPs at Dhanbad, Ramghar and Bokaro. Construction of STP in all three cities will be done under Namami Ganga Project while construction of sewerage network would be done by the State Government either with the help of World Bank, Asian Development Bank or District Mining Fund Trust, official sources informed.
With an estimated cost of Rs 400 crore, a sewerage treatment plant would be constructed at Dhanbad while at Rs 120 crore at Phusro. DPR for Ramghar is yet to get ready, he said.