CM reviews urban drinking water, sewerage
    Date :06-Feb-2021

CM reviews urban drinking
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that adequate clean drinking tap water will be provided to every town in State. For this, drinking water schemes in progress should be completed on time, their quality should be good and restoration work should be done simultaneously and work site should not be left after finishing the digging work. He said that no city of State should be without a sewerage system. It should be ensured that sewerage schemes become functional and the treatment of sewage starts.
 
He was reviewing work of urban drinking water and sewerage schemes at Mantralaya on Friday. He directed that physical verification of schemes that have been completed should be undertaken. Commissioner, Urban Administration, informed that drinking water schemes have been completed in 211 urban bodies of the state and work is going on in 167 others. He reviewed pending drinking water schemes work wise. The 2014 drinking water scheme of Pandhana Nagar was to be completed by the year 2015, which has not been completed yet. On this, he expressed his dissatisfaction and directed to complete scheme at earliest. He directed drinking water schemes which have not been completed should be monitored daily and completed soon. He said that present system of sewerage in Amarkantak is not good. Special efforts should be made there to complete sewerage work quickly. Dirty sewage should not be allowed to flow into Narmada river. Special attention should be paid in this regard in Chitrakoot as well. Also sewerage project of Omkareshwar should be completed soon.
 
Urban Development and Housing Minister Bhupendra Singh, Chief Secretary Iqbal Singh Bains and Principal Secretary Nitesh Vyas were among those present in the meeting. Present arrangements for 30 per cent treatment: Urban Development Commissioner informed that at present about 2200 MLD of sewerage is being generated daily in the urban bodies of the state. Out of this only about 30 per cent of the volume (690 MLD) is treated. Treatment of 1880 MLD of sewage daily will be arranged by the year 2022, which will be about 86 per cent of the total sewage.