Indore to revive water bodies using smart solutions

The efforts of the Guntur Municipal Corporation (GMC) have succeeded in helping the city secure second rank among the states and eighth in half-amillion population city ranking category at the national level in the Citizen Perception Survey. Over 55,000 citizens participated in the survey. The civic body engaged inward secretaries and ward volunteers to reach out to the public with the help of door-to-door campaigns and awareness programmes conducted at the office and educational institutions to encourage people to participate in the survey. Kirthi Chekuri, Commissioner, GMC, conducted regular meetings to inspect the progress of these programmes.

Gurugram to get India’s largest WTE plant

Dr Kamal Gupta, Minister for Urban Local Bodies, inaugurated the construction work of the largest waste-to-energy (WTE) plant in the country in Gurugram. Gupta said that the plant would be a milestone in proper disposal of waste, thus helping both Gurugram and Faridabad districts in the state. He said, “The WTE will start working within two years. The machinery to be installed in the plant has been imported from Germany and this plant will be based on state-of-the-art technology. It will have two boilers of 750 TPD (tonnes per day) capacity each, a turbogenerator of 25 MW (Megawatt) capacity and a control room.”

INDORE: Indore Smart City to revive water bodies with the help of smart solutions such as involvement of Resident Welfare Associations (RWA) and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) etc, aerial survey of water bodies for mapping their catchment channels and installing fountains to maintain dissolved oxygen level in water bodies. There are around 455 wells, 25 stepwells and 29 lakes across Indore. Its water bodies rejuvenation project began with the cleaning and beautification of the Hari Rao Holkar Chhatri Stepwell under the heritage conservation efforts.

After the survey, to assess the conditions of these water bodies, an action plan was framed by Indore Smart City to rejuvenate its water bodies. The action plan includes exercises such as desilting, deepening and clearing the catchment channels.

During the geo-tagging exercise, it was found that illegal establishments drained their wastewater in these water bodies leading to the accumulation of silt, resulting in reduced water storage capacity and non-potability of water. These illegal structures were removed with due consultation with all the stakeholders before the rejuvenation exercise.

Once the desilting, cleaning of water bodies, and the rainwater harvesting structures are connected to the city’s well through a recharge shaft, conservation of these water bodies will be handed over to local stakeholders such as RWA, NGOs and Garden teams.