Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal announces Mukhyamantri Septic Tank Safai Yojana
New Delhi/UNI: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday announced the Mukhyamantri Septic Tank Safai Yojana, under which the Delhi Jal Board will deploy 80 trucks, along with trained staff to ensure the cleaning and maintenance of the septic tanks across Delhi.
The scheme will also ensure the safety of sanitation workers and proper septic waste management to prevent contamination of river Yamuna, Mr Kejriwal said at a press conference at the Delhi Secretariat.
Around 45 lakh citizens in the authorised and unauthorised colonies of the capital live in areas that do not have sewer pipelines and depend on septic tanks.
The Chief Minister said, "Whereas the process to install sewage pipelines across all the unauthorized colonies is going on, it is important to ensure the cleanliness of the septic tanks through safe means."
The Chief Minister announced the Mukhyamantri Septic Tank Safai Yojana to fulfill the three-fold objective of collecting the waste from the septic tanks from the colonies, ensuring safe disposal of the waste in the Sewage Treatment Plants (STPs) of the government, and deploy trained staff with all the safety equipment for the work of septic tank cleaning.
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