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Time of India

Rs 150 cr sanctioned to clean Motihari's Motijheel

Motihari : Under Union govt's Namami Gange Project (NGP), four sewage treatment plants would be installed on the both banks of Motijheel . Rs 150 crore sanctioned for the project would help purify the water of Motijheel and Buidco would be the implementing Suman Yadav, town commissioner, Motihari Municipal Corporation (MMC), said the sites to set up the sewage treatment plants on right and left banks of Motijheel have been selected by the experts with the help of district historical town Motihari is divided in two parts by this 'jheel'.Lalbabu Prasad, deputy mayor of MMC, said the municipality has been working since 1868 and it was upgraded to municipal corporation in 2021 by the Urban development department. There are 46 wards under the MMC with 5 lakh water of the Motijheel has become polluted because drains of sewage from different localities fall directly into it. Shambhu Sikaria, former chairman of MMC, said 60% of drain water and garbage of the town fall into this lake. "Urban development department has taken a commendable decision to install sewage treatment plants to make the water of Motijheel pollution-free," he chief minister Nitish Kumar had inspected the banks of Motijheel during his 'Sewa Yatra' and asked the district administration to remove the encroachments without delay, but the west bank of the Motijheel still remains encroached. Marine drive road has been constructed beside the east bank of the lake and about 60% encroachments have been removed from there.