Cleaning nullah: ‘Hire experts, babus not good’

Ludhiana: The activists working to clean the Buddha Nullah have demanded that the government should appoint health and water pollution experts who can help with the rejuvenation project as they claimed the bureaucrats were unable to understand various aspects.
They also asked why the Tajpur Road sewage treatment plant (STP) was inaugurated Monday, if it will still take a few months for it to start functioning.
An activist Jaskirat Singh took to twitter and asked chief minister Bhagwant Mann to “hire some health and water pollution experts who can guide in bringing actual change as officials are not capable enough of taking the required decisions.”
He said this project was quite important as people of the state drink the water of Satluj river, besides a lot of public money was spent in the construction of this STP here, that would go to waste if the project failed.
Another activist, Kapil Arora said, “This STP is a part of a large project and before it could give the desired results, there is no point in inaugurating the plant. The environmentalist and AAP MP Balbir Singh Seechewal had also announced that Buddha Nullah will get cleaned and they will make CM Mann bathe with treated water. The inauguration should have been done only when results would have become visible.”
He claimed this was a “political gimmick”.
Notably, the activists have also been demanding for a permanent solution to treat dairy waste being dumped in the nullah, as they believe the effluent treatment plants (ETPs) being constructed at Haibowal and Tajpur Road dairy complexes are not sufficient.