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NEW DELHI :ACTION PLAN-III Talks on with Japanese agency for loan, say officials; Jal Board seeks more time to finish work on earlier plan
AFTER working towards cleaning e Yamuna since 1993 in two ases of the Yamuna Action Plan, a e government is now proposing i amuna Action Plan-III (YAPI), seeking a loan of Rs 833 crore t om the Japan International Co- k eration Agency (JICA).
Meanwhile, Delhi Jal Board JB) -- the implementing agency c r YAP in the river's 22-km stretch Delhi -- has received an exten on YAP-II. The earlier deadline for completion of YAP-II was ex- tended from November 2009 to March 2010.
Senior DJB officials said talks are already on with JICA, propos- ing another loan of Rs 833 crore for YAP-III, which officials said would take at least another two years to kick off.
DJB Additional CEO Santosh Vaidya told Newsline: “While some cities in Uttar Pradesh and Haryana also fall under YAP-II, major implementation works were to be done by Delhi. The Ministry
f Environment and Forests and 20 apan International Cooperation agency have now agreed to extend the term of YAP-II till March Under YAP-II, the DJB had ken up projects under three vive the ‘dead’ river. The projects included rehabilitation of trunk sewers — Ring Road sewer, Bela Road sewer and Wazirabad Road sewer tap- ping the 13 major drains of Delhi — as well as rehabilita- tion and augmentation of the treatment capacity of the two sewage treatment plants (STPs) at Keshopur and Okhla.
Vaidya said: “As the Okhla STP takes the sewage load of entire South Delhi, we have also increased its treatment capacity from 140
GD to 170 MGD. The 72-MGD R eshopur STP has been completely pr efurbished to take the entire m ewage load of North and North- ta est Delhi. We are now comfort- te ble with the extended deadline to tr nish all works under YAP-II." o While initial estimates pegged is he cost of projects in Delhi at Rs ca 87.17 crore, delays in various pro- ic cts have increased it to Rs 450 te rore. "The increased cost is being u orne by DJB," Vaidya said. "We ave only got an extension of N enure for completing the works." fr Ramesh Negi said YAP-III would propose to build new sewage treat- ment plants in the city and rehabili- tate the existing ones with better technology. “After rehabilitation of trunk sewers is done under YAP-II, our future proposal under YAP-III is to increase our sewage treatment capacity that would take the biolog- ical oxygen demand (BOD) in wa- ter from the present 20 units to 5 units in future,” Negi said.
With the present BOD levels, Negi said, the water discharged from STPs into the river can only be used for irrigation. “With the
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