Adi Ganga River (indicative photo)Image credit source: AI generated
‘Adi Ganga’ is an ancient and sacred stream of the Ganges River; a plan has been prepared for its cleanliness. Currently, the state of this river is such that its water is very dirty and also smells bad. The government had invited tenders for its cleanliness, in which a company from Ghaziabad came forward offering the lowest bid.
The stream of ‘Adi Ganga’ flows through the southern end of Kolkata. Recently, due to high tide, the water level in it rose, due to which the dirt accumulated in the river silt came to the surface. Due to this, although its water is dirty, it also smells very bad. The Kolkata Municipal Corporation had invited tenders for its cleaning.
The Ghaziabad company made the lowest offer
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation had issued an order worth Rs 681.49 crore for the revival of ‘Adi Ganga’. Ghaziabad sewerage infrastructure company ‘EMS Limited’ has submitted the lowest bid for the works of removing pollution from this river. Now it is expected that the Kolkata Municipal Corporation will award the contract soon. Then the pollution from this river will be removed.
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These areas of Kolkata will benefit
Kalighat, Chetla and areas along the stream will benefit from the cleaning of ‘Adi Ganga’. The aim of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation is to clean the entire stream through this project and strengthen the infrastructure related to it. This project is expected to reduce the problem of waterlogging in the surrounding areas.
The project, which will be implemented as part of the National Ganga River Basin Project, aims to rejuvenate the area around ‘Adi Ganga’ within a period of three years. In this project, the company that wins the tender will have to do everything from designing the infrastructure to its construction and testing.
Regarding this project, EMS says it will also operate and maintain the wastewater treatment plant for 15 years after completion of construction. EMS will do this in collaboration with a partner, in which its share will be 74 percent and the partner’s share will be 16 percent.
