The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas through Indian Oil's Mathura Refinery today joined hands to set -up India's largest Sewage Treatment Plant at Mathura that will purify sewage from Mathura and Vrindavan and the treated water will be used by the Refinery for its industrial use. Mr Nitin Gadkari , Union Minister, Road Transport and Highways and Shipping, in the presence of Ms Uma Bharat, Minister for Water Resource, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, Mr Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of State, (independent charge), Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Ms. Hema Malini,MP, Mathura, laid foundation for the state-of-the-art Sewage Treatment Plant which will be set-up at a cost of Rs 40 crore.Yamuna will gain a lot from this effort. The treated effluent water, which was so far being discharged in Yamuna will not be discharged there and will now be entirely used by the Refinery.
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari launched the Pradhan Mantri Ujjawala Yojana on August 17, 2016 in Vrindavan. Uma Bharti, Minister for Water Resource, Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of State, Hema Malini, MP, Mathura and Rajkumar Rawat, MlA, Govardhan were also present on the occasion.
Dharmendra Pradhan, explained the modalities of Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana and said that the scheme would impact the lives of women from BPl families in a major way by reducing the drudgery of cooking with polluting fuels and go a long way in reducing indoor pollution and other health related problems being faced by them. He declared 2016 as the ‘Year of Consumers’ as the ministry will offer customer centric offerings like Sahaj - the online booking and release of new connections and the online booking and payment for lPG to name a few.