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.