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As portion of the larger task to cleanable the stream Yamuna, the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) is successful the process of finalising a advisor for the Sewerage Master Plan (SWP), 2043, to code the contamination successful the river, an authoritative told The Hindu.
“The DJB floated a tender for a advisor for the SWP successful September and is successful the process of finalising a company. The bids by companies are being analysed and it should beryllium done successful a month,” the authoritative said.
The task is estimated to outgo astir ₹22 crore. The advisor volition behaviour aerial and connected crushed surveys, transportation retired spread analyses, usage artificial quality and reappraisal the existing 2031 maestro plan, according to the official.
Cleaning Yamuna stream was 1 of the cardinal canvass committedness of the Bharatiya Janata Party. While presenting the Delhi fund successful March, Chief Minister Rekha Gupta had said, “On the effect time of Delhi election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced that the committedness of cleaning Yamuna volition beryllium the biggest precedence of the Delhi government.”
In July, Union Home Minister Amit Shah chaired a gathering connected cleaning of the stream and directed the Delhi authorities to astir treble its sewage attraction capableness to 1,500 cardinal gallons per time (MGD) by 2028.
