The government has started the work on the sewage treatment plants at a cost of Rs 17.49 crore at Dhilwan and Nadala. The cost of the sewage treatment plant at Dhilwan will be Rs 6.99 crore and at Nadala Rs 10.50 crore. The work on these plants was inaugurated by Aam Aadmi Party in-charge Advocate Harsimran Singh.

He said the plant at Dhilwan had a capacity of 2 MLD, which will clean the sewage water of the entire Dhilwan and directly benefit the population of 10,000 .

The sewage treatment plant at Nadala had a capacity of one MLD and will benefit about 8,000. Through this, the water of Nadala town will be cleaned and made suitable for irrigation.

On the occasion of laying the foundation stone, Advocate Harsimran Singh said under the leadership of Local Government Minister Ravjot Singh, development works in the municipal councils and municipal panchayats were being carried out on a war footing, under which the work of sewage treatment plants had been started at Dhilwan and Nadala.

He said the work on the laying the sewage line at Dhilwan had been completed, while the water purified through this would be used for irrigation.

He also said in the next few days, other development works like streets, streetlights, etc were also being started at Dhilwan and Nadala so that better facilities could be provided to the people in these municipal panchayats.

Superintendent Engineer of Sewerage Board Ashish Rai said the work on these plants would be completed by the board within a year. The water purified through these would be used for irrigation in about 50 acres.

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