Pune: PCMC to survey sewage treatment plants from May 31

PIMPRI CHINCHWAD: The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has decided to conduct a survey from May 31 to check the functionality of the sewage treatment plants (STPs) in the big housing societies, in order to increase and encourage the use of recycled water in the civic limits.
Vikas Dhakane, additional commissioner, PCMC, told TOI, "It is important to adopt the initiative of the STPs for all the housing societies. According to the central government guidelines, we are counselling the societies and trying to know the actual problems faced by the people. A few societies have installed the STPs but they are not functional."
The regulation of the STPs will also offer some tax discounts to the housing societies. "If the societies do not make any provision for the STPs, we will warn them and if they still fail to function, then we will take a stern action," he said.
Dattatray Deshmukh, chairman of the Pimpri Chinchwad Housing Society Federation, said, "The Pimpri Chinchwad civic body needs to take all the stakeholders into consideration before initiating such surveys or decisions. We want to ask the societies if they have space to install STP installation and if they don't, then we would want to know how the building permission was approved."
He said, they will communicate with the civic body about the concerns on the functionality of the STPs.