Proposal to build 3 CETPs for treating Faridabad’s industrial waste

Faridabad, February 14

Three common effluent treatment plants (CETPs) of a combined capacity of 90 million litres per day (MLD) have been proposed for treating waste produced by the industrial units in the city. The cost of the project will be Rs 360 crore.

The Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructural Development Corporation (HSIIDC) has been given this project, according to sources. While a plan of the required infrastructure has been submitted after a survey, the proposal is awaiting approval of the higher authorities, it has been learnt.

While a 10.5-MLD CETP set up by the HSIIDC is already functional in the Industrial Model Township (IMT) of Sector 69, the new plants are proposed to be set up in Pratapgarh, Badshahpur and Mirzapur villages of the district.

These treatment plants will receive sewage waste from the industrial units located in Sectors 4, 5, 6, 24, 25, 27, 58 and 59. More than 10,000 units are located in these sectors.

The combined capacity of the CETPs will be 90 MLD, of which the one at Pratapgarh will have the highest capacity of 50 MLD, according to officials of the department concerned.

The HSIIDC has also initiated the process to set up the second module of the 10.5-MLD CETP at IMT to increase its capacity to 21 MLD, for which permission has been granted by the state government.

With around 30,000 industrial and manufacturing units of various scales, the city has been facing acute shortage of treatment facilities of industrial waste and the effluents are being discharged in drains, canals and in sewage lines in gross violation of pollution norms.

“The lack of required infrastructure has led to filthy civic conditions as the untreated waste has been discharged into the open for the past several years in the industrial sectors of 58 and 59,” said Suresh Chand Garg, an entrepreneur. HSIIDC Manager Harikishan said work on the new CETPs is expected to start after a formal sanction from the government as the survey report has already been submitted.