Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia has approved the Delhi Jal Board’s project to lay sewer lines in 39 unauthorised colonies of the Najafgarh constituency and provide free individual house sewer connections to households.
About 55,000 people will benefit from this project, worth Rs 41 crore.
Sisodia has also directed the DJB officials to make the project meet expectations and complete the quality work within the stipulated time.
The Deputy Chief Minister said: “The Delhi government is working in a phased manner for laying various sewer lines in different areas of the National Capital and cleaning the Yamuna river. We have set a target to completely clean the Yamuna river by the year 2025. A 34 km long sewer line will be laid in 39 unauthorised colonies of the Najafgarh constituency.”
“With this project, about 55 thousand people will get relief from sewer problems. Here the sewage is discharged into the drains without treatment, due to which the extremely polluted sewage water falls into the Yamuna river,” he said.
To prevent the polluted sewage water from flowing into the river Yamuna, the DJB has decided to lay the sewer line, so that treated water falls into the Yamuna river, which will be a huge step towards cleaning the Yamuna river, the Deputy Chief Minister said.
Sisodia said, “With the aim of keeping Delhi clean and making Yamuna pollution-free, free sewer connections are being provided by the Government to the residents of Delhi under the Mukhyamantri Muft Sewer Connection Yojana. Earlier getting a sewer connection was very expensive.”