Around 2,225 million litres per day (MLD) of untreated water is either seeping into the ground or being discharged into the Yamuna every day as only 40 per cent of sewage is treated in 18 treatment plants in Delhi, an RTI reply reveals.
According to an RTI, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) carried out monitoring to ascertain the performance of sewage treatment plant located in Delhi.
As per the study conducted by the CPCB, the city generates 3,800 MLD of waste water per day whereas the present installed treatment capacity is 2,603.7 MLD and the actual utilisation is only 1,575.8 MLD.
“It is so shocking that the city is not equipped to treat entire sewage generated by the city. The current infrastructure can only process 69 per cent of sewage. But due to the negligence of the government only 40 per cent of waste water is getting treated. The government is spending crores of rupees on setting up STPs but they are massively underutilised,” said Subodh Jain, RTI applicant and Delhi-based lawyer.
The RTI reply revealed that sewage treatment plants are insufficient and highly underutilised. —PTI
Published - March 23, 2015 12:00 am IST
