GMDA notifies 30 developers to install analysers at their STPs

GURUGRAM: Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) sent notices to 30 independent developers to install analysers at their sewage treatment plants (STPs) at various locations of Gurugram within 15 days. The analysers would be used for online monitoring of their sewage generation, discharge and treatment on a daily basis. On failure of compliance, the authority would subsequently disconnect water and sewage connections of all the 30 establishments and matter will be referred to the Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) for further action and police complaint will be initiated as well. The authority mentioned that the group of 30 developers, who own residential and commercial establishments along the Southern and Northern Peripheral Roads (SPR and NPR) in Sectors 57 to 115, collectively discharge 60 million liters of sewage daily.

The authority had instructed the developers of all the 366 STPs across the city to install analysers out of which 30 have failed to comply with the order since then and are on the high end of the spectrum of polluted sewage discharged from their respective facilities.

Lalit Arora, chief engineer, GMDA said, “We will disconnect the water and sewer connections after the expiry of the notice period. We have to get analysers installed at all the 366 privately installed STPs. Compared to the 336 STPs, this group of selected 30 STPs have high sewage discharge. We need to check them first as they are the biggest polluters. As per our survey, we have found deficiencies in their STPs.”

The GMDA conducted a physical survey of 100 STPs last week and selected 60 of them as the biggest polluters. “Another group of 30 STP owners will start getting notices from September 15 onwards,” Arora said.