Another step towards
“SWACHH BHARAT”
Udaipur's First Sewage Treatment Plant...
Hindustan Zinc, a
company of Vedanta Group in Zinc-Lead-Silver business has come forward and
built Udaipur’s fist sewage treatment plant (STP) that treats 30% of the sewage
generated by the city of lakes, a world’s class tourism destination. Udaipur
generates about 70 million litres of sewage per day and Hindustan Zinc Sewage
Treatment Plant is treating 20 million litres per day. This STP has
been built with a cost of Rs. 170 crore and has been constructed and
commissioned on ‘Design Build Own Operate and Transfer’ basis in association
with Government of Rajasthan.
Government of
Rajasthan has been looking for this project for quite some time and there
always has been a dire need for a large corporate to align and associate with
the Government to address growing sewage problem in Udaipur. Hindustan Zinc
being one of the largest corporate in Rajasthan and leader in undertaking
environment friendly projects signed an agreement to undertake this project.
Udaipur, the city
of lakes, elevated hills and magnificent cultural heritage with exotic palaces,
celestial temples, colourful festivals and express highways is no doubt one of
the most sought after national and global tourism destinations. Lakhs of
tourists visit Udaipur every year.
With the time, in
the last few years, the local population of Udaipur has also grown. The advent
of shopping malls and multiplexes have been instrumental in building a new and
modern Udaipur. As the city has grown, the maintenance of current
infrastructure has also become a challenge, particularly in relation to
cleanliness of majestic lakes. The challenge is to sustain the freshness of
these lakes. For long, the lakes have been absorbing the disposal of human
waste which has become critical as the contamination is now clearly visible on
the surface of the water.
On an average,
Udaipur city generates about 70 million litres of sewage per day and cleaning
this sewage was itself a challenge. Currently, most of the sewage is travelling
to various lakes leading to contamination of water, polluting lakes and thereby
affecting overall beauty of these lakes. The only solution that was evident was
constructing a large scale Sewage Treatment Plant that could take the load of
treating this massive sewage. This treatment of sewage would not only keep the
lakes clean, a strong move towards clean environment, but would also help in
retaining the majestic looks of these lakes that attract lakhs of tourists
every year.
Not just treating
sewage, the Hindustan Zinc Sewage Treatment Plant, in the process, would also
be generating a large quantity of manure that will be sold by Udaipur Municipal
Corporation to the local bodies. This initiative itself is estimated to
generate revenue of Rs. 1 crore every year. To ensure there is no piling-up of
stocks of manure, the Udaipur Municipal Corporation will be disposing off the
manure on fortnightly basis.
Hindustan Zinc,
adhering to its commitment towards clean green environment and maintaining
highest standards of waste management, commissioned this Sewage Treatment Plant
in 2014. Hindustan Zinc will gradually divert domestic sewage pipeline into
large pipe-lines, leading to the Sewage Treatment Plant, to reduce the flow of
sewage in the lakes.
Hindustan Zinc is
one of the pioneers in adopting clean green technology in running its
plants. Saving water has always been a focus area for Hindustan Zinc.
While maintaining the global benchmark and working continuously towards water
conservation, the company has been successfully reducing its water footprints
by reducing the water consumption every year. All the business locations of
Hindustan Zinc are working on zero discharge principle, while putting on
efforts and research for gainful utilization of waste generated by them.
Hindustan Zinc Sewage Treatment Plant project is a major step not only
towards treatment of sewage in Udaipur but also a significant initiative
towards building a sustainable environment and conservation of water.
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