Paving way for what is being seen as a long-term solution to the pollution in the Yamuna river due to untreated sewage disposal, the Union Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure on Wednesday cleared the project for laying interceptor sewer along the three main drains of the city — Najafgarh, Supplementary (running almost parallel to Najafgarh drain) and the Shahdara drain.
The project, approved at a cost of Rs 1,357.71 crores, will be funded through the Centre’s Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). Under the arrangement, the Centre will provide additional Central assistance of 35 per cent to the total cost of project, while the Delhi government would provide 15 per cent. The Delhi Jal Board, which will be executing the project, will have to raise the remaining 50 per cent.
The project envisages tapping of untreated sewer falling from sub-drains into the three main drains, which in turn fall in the Yamuna river, by constructing interceptor sewers along the sub-drains and also treating the sewage.
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‘No loss in Games deal’
AGE CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI
May 19: The DDA has maintained that it had not incurred any loss in extending financial help to the EMAAR-MGF, the developer of the Commonwealth Games Village, by buying 333 flats in the village complex from it. Recently, a CAG report had pointed out that the DDA lost out on nearly Rs 150 crores on account of extending the financial help and also non-recovery of dues on account of allowing construction on an increased floor area ratio. The DDA said that the rate at which flats have been purchased was arrived at after due deliberation.