Bengaluru: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday inaugurated four sewage treatment plants (STPs) at Bellandur-Ammanikere (90 MLD), Doddabele (20 MLD), Horamavu Agara (20MLD) and Kadugodi (6MLD). With this, Bengaluru is the second city to have the capacity of treating 69 per cent of the waste generated.
Mumbai, with 74 per cent of sewage treatment, is ahead of Bengaluru. Delhi treats 60 per cent while Chennai treats a little more than half of the sewage produced.
These STPs inaugurated on Saturday will processes sewage from Kudlu, Parappana Agrahara, Bellandur, Panathur and Mahadevapura. At present, much of this flows into the beleaguered Bellandur and Vathur lakes.
This is part of a 339MLD project, including 11 STPs, for the treatment of waste water in the city.
The project is funded by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and eight STPs capable of treating 261 MLD have already been completed.
“The capacity to treat sewage has been increased to 982 MLD, and by 2020, more than 1,577MLD will be treated,” Siddaramaiah said.
