The Indian Express 14.08.2012
Councillors to visit Delhi, Mumbai to see sewage treatment technology
A team of councillors of the Municipal Corporation along with
officials is all set to visit different cities in order to find the most
suitable technology for setting up a sewerage treatment plant in the
city.
A decision to this effect was taken after a meeting was held on
Monday. The team will be visiting Mumbai and Delhi to observe the
functioning of the treatment plants at these places.
The agenda for setting up a new sewerage treatment plant was
brought up at the meeting of the general house of the Municipal
Corporation around two months ago. The councillors, however, refused to
set up the plant based on the proposed technology. They had demanded
that the pros and cons of technologies available should be considered
before a final decision was taken. A committee was then constituted for
the purpose of studying the technology.
At Monday meeting, it was decided that the councillors along with
officials should visit the plants in Mumbai and Delhi. Both places have
plants which are being operated with different technologies.
The councillors who are part of the committee include Mukesh
Bassi, Satish Kainth, Arun Sood, Sat Prakash Aggarwal, Surinder Bahga,
Asha Jaswal and Saurabh Joshi. While there are some sewerage treatment
plants in the city, the new one is proposed to be set up at Maloya.