Civic amenities provider company, Tata Steel Utilities and Infrastructure Services Limited (Tata Steel UISL) is currently engaged in developing Jamshedpur’s first ‘Jungle Trail’ that will give the citizens an actual feel of a journey into dense forestland and at the same time get closer to nature.
Located near Marine Drive towards Parsi Aramgah, the 2.5-km long Jungle Trail is a short trail with easy access that is setup for young and old to get out and explore nature.
“The work is going on and it will be the first kind of trail we are working on. Along with Jungle Trail, we are also working on a Bio Diversity Park planned in the western part of Jamshedpur,” said Tarun Daga, managing director, Tata Steel USIL, while addressing a press meet at Beldih Club.
Sharing details about work done in the area of horticulture, he said that green coverage in Jamshedpur continues to be at approximately 37% (highest in any industrial town). The company maintains big and small parks. In the last 10 years, about 14 parks were developed and renovated, and presently maintaining 30 of them. In the last five years we have planted approximately 4.4lakh trees / saplings. During the past two years, we are developing Tree Bank and have around 2.5 lakh saplings that are being nurtured. He went on to inform the company has set up a Tree Bank and plans are to take numbers to one million trees in next few years.
The company also has plans to come up with a new park at Ramnagar. have a tree transplanter for relocation of specific trees.
Talking about the company’s plans of widening of roads, central verges across the city, the managing director said: “Under phase one, we have completed more than 25 kms stretch and in phase two, work has been completed on 7.5 kms stretch out of 16 kms. Jamshedpur has more than around 70 roundabouts and 45 have been redesigned, restructured and reformed.”
Tata Steel UISL is also working on increasing the connection base every year and especially there are initiatives taken up to include bagan / basti areas in the water service coverage. Water projects will be completed in eastern and western Jamshedpur, as a result of which we will be able to increase the coverage in due course.
PSTPs/ETPs/Medical waste treatment systems that have been built and being operated, around the town. Recycle and reuse systems have been set up at Bara STP and Kharkai STP. A tertiary treatment plant has been built at Bara STP. During Fy20 to date, sewage treatment has increased from 26 MLD to 40 MLD and recycled sewage from 20 MLD to 36 MLD. Currently there are 11 PSTPs and 15 are proposed to be set up.