Plan to upgrade the old ones along with building STP on Yamuna. file photo
State Bureau, New Delhi. To clean the Yamuna River, work is going on to build new sewage treatment plants (STPs) as well as upgrade old STPs to treat the dirty water falling into it.
In the last nine months, 12 upgrade works have been completed. The capacity of the STP has been increased by 100 million gallons per day (MGD).
On Wednesday, Delhi Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa held a meeting with officials to review the ongoing work on cleaning Yamuna. He said that under the leadership of Chief Minister Rekha Gupta and guidance of Water Minister Pravesh Verma, necessary steps have been taken to improve sewage management in the last 11 months.
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Delhi's total sewage treatment capacity in February 2025 was 707 MGD. This will increase to 814 MGD by November, 2025. Earlier only 16 STPs out of 37 were upgraded. Now their number has increased to 28.
The capacity of the 12 upgraded STPs has increased from 329 MGD to 436 MGD. The upgradation work of others will be completed by December, 2027. Apart from this, the work of 13 Decentralized Sewage Treatment Plants (DSTP) sewer network being built is targeted to be completed by December this year.
He said, Delhi's water and sewage system had become weak due to the neglect of the previous governments, but the present government is continuously working to fulfill its resolve of clean Yamuna.
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