The state government has sanctioned Rs 15 crore for implementation of the onsite sludge treatment project at Mawphlang.
Informing this on Wednesday, PHE Minister Marcuise N Marak said, “The project was lying unsanctioned for the last many years. This time I took a decision and moved (the government and) we have got a sanction for the onsite sludge treatment project at the cost of Rs 15 crore.”
“Now, we are going for the tendering and after the tendering we will allot the work to the qualified company,” he said while adding that the work will start by January-February, next year.
The minister has also informed this to a delegation of traditional headmen under Mawphlang Lyngdohship, which have threatened to move the National Green Tribunal (NGT) against the sludges disposed of from the PHE water treatment plant at Mawphlang to the downstream of the Wah Rina river.
“(However) on hearing my statement they (delegation) are very happy and they have told me that they will not go to NGT anymore as the government is taking care of the problems that they are facing,” Marak said.
“On completion of the project, we will be benefiting in two ways. One is we will be getting another 2 MLD of water from the sludges and the sludges will not be there downstream in the Wah Rina river and people will not have to suffer with the sludge problems that they have been facing,” he added.
Stating that the problem has been there for almost 2 decades, Marak said the sludge coming out every day from the Mawphlang treatment plant is being drained out to Wah Rina. Now, people are complaining that fishes are dying and their agriculture activities are being hampered due to this.
The minister had also conducted an inspection of the treatment plant at Mawphlang recently.
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