NMCG Ask Municipal Bodies and Industries to Furnish Action Plan for the Sewage Treatment and Trade Effluent Within 15 Days

National Mission on Clean Ganga (NMCG) has directed 118 Municipalities/ Urban Local Bodies in the States of UP, Uttrakhand, Bihar, Jharkhand and West-Bengal and 687 industrial units in the States of UP, Uttrakhand, Bihar and West-Bengal to furnish the action plans directly to the concerned State Program Management Group (SPMGs) in the respective State with a copy to the NMCG, for construction / rehabilitation and / or upgradation of the sewage treatment plants (STPs) , installation of requisite equipments / augmentation of the STPs by such municipalities / urban local bodies and Effluent Treatment Plants / Common Effluent Treatment Plant (ETPs / CETPs ), zero liquid discharge / real time monitoring for the discharge of trade effluents for abatement of pollution by the industries, as the case may be [The action plans are to be furnished in the specified format as available at www.nmcg.nic.in]. In the event of non-compliance of the Notice, the NMCG will be constrained to take all necessary steps and make necessary submissions before the Supreme Court of India and before the National Green Tribunal, besides taking such other legal actions as may be deemed appropriate.