Panipat village first to manage waste water through soak pits

Mukesh Tandon

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Tribune News Service

Panipat, July 3

Basara village of the Samalkha block has become the first village in the state to have its own water harvesting system. All 235 houses in the village have made soak pits to manage waste water in houses, which would recharge groundwater.

Sources in the administration said the government had selected two villages of in each district to start a soak pit project to manage used water in houses under the Swachh Bharat Mission.

Rajiv Mehta, Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC), said, “Khalila and Basara villages of the Samalkha block have been selected in the district on a pilot basis after visiting around 10 villages of the area.”

The Samalkha and Bapoli block of the district had been declared dark zone by the Central Ground Water Level Board, he said.

“I, along with sarpanch Gaurav Kumar and my officials, visited Chafyacha Para, a tribal village in Nasik district of Maharashtra, in May and found that it had maintained the soak pit project very well,” said the ADC.

The project had been taken up under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and costed around Rs 11.5 lakh, he said.

“The main benefit of the project is that the water used in kitchen, bathing, vehicle washing and animal bathing will not be discharged in the drains and ponds of the village,” he said.