Sewerage treatment plant will be set up under the Namami Gange Project, Phase II, in three municipal areas of Jharkhand situated on the banks of Damodar River. The plants will be set up at Dhanbad, Ramghar and Phusro. Work has been initiated in this direction. A review meeting was conducted under the chairmanship of Secretary, Urban Development and Housing department Ajay Kumar Singh, at Project Bhawan on Friday.
Under the project a PowerPoint presentation of Sewerage Treatment Plant (STP) in the three towns was shown and discussed along with the review of the construction of the underground structures.
Singh instructed the officers to constitute a team and ensure the availability of land from the concerned Deputy Commissioners of Dhanbad, Ramghar and Bokaro for the construction of sewerage treatment plant. Construction of STP in all three cities will be done by Namami Ganga Project while construction of sewerage network would be done by the State Government either with the help of World Bank, Asian Development Bank or District Mining Fund Trust.
With an estimated cost of Rs 400 crore a sewerage treatment plant would be constructed at Dhanbad while at Rs 120 crore at Phusro, said Amit Kumar, Director, State Urban Development Agency.
“DPR for Ramgarh is yet to be ready,” he added. Along with Ganga, Damodar and Sone are also connected with Namami Ganga project in Jharkhand.
