PM Narendra Modi to launch Rs 541 crore projects for Bihar today

PATNA: PM Narendra Modi will inaugurate and lay foundation for seven projects worth Rs541 crore related to urban infrastructure in Bihar via videoconferencing on Tuesday.
This will be the third such pre-election event in Bihar by PM. On Sunday, he launched petroleum ministry projects worth Rs903 crore. Earlier, on September 10, Modi launched the Rs20,050 crore PM Matsya Sampada Yojana (MSY) in the country with its benefits to Bihar. He also launched projects of animal husbandry department amounting to Rs294.53 crore in Bihar.
Of the seven projects to be launched on Tuesday, four are related to water supply, two to sewage treatment and one to riverfront development. Bihar Urban Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (BUIDCo) is the executing agency of the projects under state urban development and housing department.
The sewage management plants have been completed under National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) keeping in view the needs up to 2035.
BUIDCo chief engineer Ramavtar Sah said the two plants at Beur and Karmalichak would ensure that domestic waste water is not discharged into the river. “Both the STPs would work on old sewer lines for the time being as the work on new pipelines is still underway,” he said.
“Karmalichak STP would have 96.54km-long sewerage network while Beur STP has 108km-long pipeline. The new pipelines is expected to be operational by December-end,” he added.
Karmalichak would have the capacity to treat waste water up to 37 million litres per day (MLD) and Beur 43 MLD. The PM had laid the foundation for these projects in February last year.
An executive engineer in BUIDCo said waste water would be treated through sequencing batch reactors technology and the treated water would be used for irrigation purpose.
Water supply projects in Siwan Municipal Council and Chhapra Municipal Corporation would also be inaugurated under the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) to provide clean drinking water to the residents.
The PM would also lay foundation for water supply projects in Munger Municipal Corporation and Jamalpur Municipal Council areas under AMRUT.
Besides, Chandwara Ghat, Poorvi Akhada Ghat and Seedhi Ghat in Muzaffarpur would be developed under Namami Gange Project. The riverfront development would be on par with Patna’s riverfront. It would have basic facilities like toilets, information and sitting kiosks, changing rooms, pathway and watch tower. The foundation for the same would be laid by the PM.