Stepping up efforts to clean Ganga at Varanasi, the government has signed a loan agreement of Rs 552 crore (Rs 5.52 billion) with the Japan Bank for International Cooperation for an ambitious project, the Lok Sabha was informed on Friday.
The project comprises schemes pertained to sewerage, pumping stations, construction of 200 mld (million litre per day) new sewage treatment plant, community toilet complexes in slum areas, construction of dhobi ghats and improvement of bathing ghats, minister of state for environment and forests Namo Narayan Meena said.
Responding to a calling attention motion of Samajwadi party member Mohan Singh, he said implementation of the project would help in tackling the balance untreated sewage flowing into the river from the town and result in better river water quality at Varanasi.
He said based on detailed project reports received from the UP government, the ministry has initiated the process of getting approval of the competent authority of the government for the project.
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