The four sewage treatment plants (STPs) at Beur, Karmalichak, Saidpur and Pahadi in Patna will be made functional by the end of the 2021-2022 financial year. Sewer networks are being laid to connect all the households to the STPs so that untreated water does not get discharged into the Ganga directly.
The foundation for the plants, which have a capacity to treat200 million litres of wastewater per day, was laid by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Mokama in Patna district in October 2017.
According to sources, the wastewater will be treated through a sequencing batch reactor system and used for irrigation after chlorination.
Ramavtar Sah, the chief engineer of Namami Gange Programme as part of which the plants are being installed, told this reporter, “The STPs at Beur, Karmalichak, Saidpur, and Pahadi and their sewer networks will be ready and made functional by March 2022.”
