Question raised in Rajya Sabha on directions for discharge of polluted water, 11/05/2015
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on directions for discharge of polluted water, 11/05/2015. National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) has issued a notice on 23.03.2015 (Published in leading newspapers) to the 118 municipalities / urban local bodies and 687 industries in the Ganga river basin to furnish the action plans for construction / rehabilitation and / or upgradation of the sewage treatment plants (STPs), installation of requisite equipments / augmentation of the STPs by such municipalities / urban local bodies and Effluent Treatment Plants / Common Effluent Treatment Plant (ETPs / CETPs), zero liquid discharge / real time monitoring for the discharge of trade effluenfts for abatement of pollution by the industries, as the case may be, directly to the concerned SPMGs in the respective State within 15 days of the publication of the Notice (23.03.2015).