Pune: Decline In Ranking Of ‘Cleanliness Competition’ Due To Lack Of Sewage Treatment Projects, Acknowledgment From Municipal Commissioner
Pune, 5th October 2022: The Municipal Commissioner, Administrator Vikram Kumar, has admitted that unless 100% treatment of sewage generated in the city is done, and sewage treatment plants are not operationalized at full capacity, the rating of the municipal corporation in the ‘Swachh Survekshan’ (cleanliness survey) competition will not improve.
Despite spending crores of rupees on various projects for waste management, Pune’s national ranking in the Clean City Competition has fallen. Pune city, which was ranked fifth in the country last year, has fallen to the ninth position. Interestingly, even after spending eight hundred crore rupees on solid waste management in a year, Pune’s ranking has fallen, and the municipal corporation has been criticized.
The NGOs have demanded that the Municipal Commissioner should accept all these responsibilities and draw up a white paper on the expenses of the last twenty years. In this background, Commissioner, Administrator Vikram Kumar has admitted that “the Municipal Corporation has not been able to speed up these projects”.
The municipal corporation has undertaken a project to process the wastewater generated in the city. Mula-Mutha rivers have been included in the city under the National River Improvement Scheme, and the Central Government has taken financial assistance from the Japan-based Jayka Company for this purpose, which will be given to the Municipal Corporation as a subsidy of Rs 980 crore. But this project has been stalled for four years.
Wastewater treatment and wastewater recycling are important in clean competition criteria. There are currently 11 sewage plants in the city. But they are not functioning at full capacity. Even in the villages included in the municipal limits, sewage treatment projects are lacking. Therefore, the city was not rated with good rankings. Until this system is reformed, the rating will not be revised. “Thus, efforts will be made to speed up the sewage treatment projects,” says Commissioner Vikram Kumar.
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