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Installation of Sewage Treatment Plants (STP) by section bodies and Water Resources Department on the people of River Noyyal has been prioritised nether ‘Nadanthai Vaazhi Cauvery’ project, according to authoritative sources.
The premier nonsubjective of ‘Nadanthaai Vaazhi Cauvery’ project, formulated connected the lines of ‘Namami Gange’programme is to conserve, rejuvenate and efficaciously curb contamination of River Cauvery and its tributaries.
Though the task has different components specified arsenic stream aboveground cleaning and riverfront development, STPs person been fixed the precedence successful presumption of the contamination caused to Noyyal stream owed to discharge of effluents from industries successful Coimbatore and Tiruppur district.
The Noyyal stream flows on Coimbatore and Tiruppur cities, and respective municipality panchayats and villages successful Coimbatore, Tiruppur, Erode and Karur districts earlier merging with the Cauvery.
Noyyal is 1 of the Cauvery’s 5 tributaries covered nether the scheme. Thirumanimutharu, Sarabanga, Bhavani, and Amaravathy rivers represent the different tributaries.
Earlier this week, Minister for Information and Publicity M.P. Saminathan convened a gathering successful Tiruppur with representatives of section bodies and WRD officials to sermon the strategy implementation nether archetypal of the 2 phases.
The Detailed Project Report readied by WAPCOS (Water and Power Cosultancy Services), a Central Public Sector Enterprise nether the Ministry of Jal Sakthi, has already been submitted to the Environmental Protection Training and Research Institute (EPTRI), Hyderabad, and the backing is awaited, authoritative sources said.
The National River Conservation Directorate has approved ₹ 934.301 crore backing for the project, with Central authorities stock of 60% (₹560.581 crore) and State authorities stock of 40% (₹ 373.720 crore). Out of the full task cost, the highest grade of ₹577.15 crore is for sewage management.
