Mathura, 2017.12.26 (VT): It’s Yamuna that has sustained the life line of Vrindavan and Mathura for centuries. It is now gasping for breath due to excessive amount of pollution due to the untreated sewer water going in it. It has been defiled desecrated and left for dead. It has been reduced to being stinking drain and its sanctity and ecological significance is becoming a thing of the past. The river can’t survive any longer, unless people join hands with the government to undertake the herculean task of reviving it and infusing life in its water.
There is some hope with Center’s Namami Gange Programme that was launched as a mission to achieve the target of cleaning the Ganga River in an effective manner with the unceasing involvement of all the stakeholders, especially five major Ganga basin States – Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar and West Bengal.
Recently, the Union Government has given approval for the biggest STP in Mathura under its ambitious Ganga rejuvenation programme. The government has allocated Rs. 204 crore for the construction of the Sewer treatment plant having a capacity of 30 MLD. The new Sewer Treatment Plant (STP) will be installed near the old STP behind the PMV polytechnic College. The work will begin either in the last week of January or in early February. The government has also approved an STP for Vrindavan with constructed wetland design.
Global tender has been invited for the establishment of the Sewer Treatment Plant. The tender format was designed through International Finance Corporation, sister concern of the World Bank. The agency which will establish the STP will also have to upgrade the existing STP’s and Sewer Pumping Station. The capacity of such STPs will be enhanced and the pump etc. will be replaced. The new STPs will be ready for functioning in two years time. The company that will establish the new STP will be responsible to upkeep all the STPs for fifteen years.
After the completion of the tender processes, administrative approval and expenditure sanction of the projects will be given by the executives of the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG).
It should be noted that Allahabad High Court had pulled up the District Authorities of Mathura taking the grim view on Yamuna Pollution. Two officials were also suspended who were held responsible for negligence.
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