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Haryana Chief Secretary Anurag Rastogi connected Tuesday (June 9, 2026) directed each the departments acrophobic to accelerate the implementation of sewage-treatment, industrial-effluent-management and pollution-control projects to guarantee important betterment successful the h2o prime of the Yamuna and its tributary drains.
Chairing a high-level reappraisal gathering successful Chandigarh during which helium reviewed the advancement of the Yamuna Action Plan, the Chief Secretary emphasised that the Haryana authorities is committed to ensuring that the Yamuna remains cleanable and pollution-free done a coordinated, time-bound and technology-driven approach. He directed the departments to guarantee that each ongoing and projected projects are completed by December 31, 2027.
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The reappraisal highlighted important advancement being made crossed the Yamuna catchment done the improvement of caller sewage attraction plants (STPs), communal effluent attraction plants (CETPs), micro-STPs and effluent-tapping infrastructure.
In a large measurement towards rejuvenating the Yamuna river, the Haryana authorities has launched an extended enactment plan, focussing connected sewage treatment, concern discarded absorption and real-time monitoring of drain pollution.
Haryana State Pollution Control Board Chairman Vinay Pratap Singh informed the gathering that projects involving much than 425 MLD (million litres per day) of further sewage attraction capableness and implicit 150 MLD of concern effluent attraction capableness are astatine assorted stages of tendering, support and execution.
Among the cardinal initiatives discussed was upgrading the existing 10-MLD STP astatine Jattal Road, Panipat, which volition alteration the attraction of some home sewage and concern effluents. Plans to found six micro-STPs successful villages of Karnal territory were besides reviewed, a measurement expected to importantly trim the discharge of untreated grey h2o into drains.
In Sonipat, the projected CETPs astatine Nathupur and Kundli and the enhancement of the Rathdhana STP are expected to fortify the wastewater-treatment infrastructure successful rapidly-growing concern and municipality areas.
The gathering besides reviewed the advancement connected CETPs planned for Gurugram and Faridabad, including large projects astatine Partapgarh, Mirzapur and concern sectors of Gurugram. Special attraction was fixed to the Mungeshpur drain, wherever untreated wastewater is being diverted towards attraction facilities and bio-remediation measures are being planned to amended h2o prime earlier the drain enters Delhi.
Officials informed that identified discharge points crossed large drains are being systematically tapped to forestall untreated effluents from reaching earthy h2o bodies. The Chief Secretary directed the departments to guarantee strict compliance with discharge standards astatine each STPs and CETPs, and stressed the value of regular monitoring.
He besides called for stronger enforcement measures to forestall amerciable dumping of discarded and unauthorised discharge of effluents into drains. Reviewing task timelines, Mr. Rastogi instructed the departments to resoluteness pending land-related and procedural issues connected precedence truthful that operation activities tin commence without delay.
He emphasised that effectual coordination among municipality section bodies, improvement authorities, Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (HSIIDC), Public Health Engineering Department (PHED), Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) departments and territory administrations would beryllium important for achieving the objectives of the Yamuna Action Plan.
Officials informed the gathering that large attraction infrastructure projects successful Gurugram, Faridabad, Panipat, Sonipat and Rohtak are progressing done tendering and support stages, and are expected to substantially heighten the State's wastewater-treatment capableness successful the coming years.
The Chief Secretary besides emphasised the request for rigorous prime checks of the existing STPs and CETPs, adding that helium would personally sojourn selected plants to reappraisal their functioning and guarantee compliance with prescribed standards.
