J'khand CM inaugurates sewage treatment plant in Jamshedpur

Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das today inaugurated the Kharkhai Sewage Treatment Plant, which will recycle 10 million litres of liquid sewage discharge in a day.
The recycled product will be reused for irrigation, gardening and industrial purposes, Managing Director of Jamshedpur Utility and Services Company (Jusco) Ashish Mathur said.
JUSCO is a subsidiary of Tata Steel and provides municipal services in the Tata Command Area.
He said the steel city of Jamshedpur discharges 40 million litres of sewage water per day and JUSCO, with the support of Tata Steel, has plans to recycle and reuse it 100 per cent for irrigation, industrial and gardening purpose.

Another sewage water treatment plant at Bara with a capacity to treat 30 million litres of sewage discharge liquid per day is likely to be completed early next year, he said.
Jamshedpur will be the country's first "zero liquid discharge" city following completion Bara project, Mathur claimed.

He added that JUSCO will plant 1 lakh trees in 200 days as part of the chief minister's "One tree, one life" campaign in the state.
Appreciating JUSCO and Tata Steel, Das said people should not rely on Corporate houses and government for everything, but it is also the responsibility of individuals to work for betterment of the society as well as environment.

The chief minister, who also inaugurated three parks, said miscreants have been encroaching land and the state government has decided to free those lands.
"Responding to the demand of local residents, we have set up these parks for public use and protect the land from land mafia," Das said, adding a large portion of the government lands have been encroached by land sharks across the state, which will be freed soon.
He said mineral-rich Jharkhand cannot develop without development of its economy, which needed investment.
"But development should not happen at the cost of environment. So, to protect the environment, we have to plant as many trees as are being cut to set up Industries," he said.

The state government has a target to plant three crore saplings across the state this year, he said.
"Protection of 'jal, jungle, zammen' (water, forest and land) is not our political agenda but a commitment," he said.
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Das said several MoUs relating to such organised
retail network of fruits and vegetables like Safal were signed during the Global Investors Summit and would be implemented soon.
The chief minister said it was not Jharkhand state but the people who are poor. More than 23 lakh people are living below the poverty line and as a result there is migration.

The government is working in the areas where jobs will be generated for the poor and has set up Mukhya Mantri Udyami Board in which 4.5 lakh women would be made entrepreneurs. They would work as a team to take vegetables and fruits from their villages to the Safal plant, Das said adding a training centre would be set up soon at Safal's Tikratoli unit.
Farmers would be trained in modern agriculture, he said and called upon them to change with the time and utilize their land properly. He also asked them to keep away from chemical fertilizers and use organic fertilizers instead.

Das advised farmers to take up floriculture and said the government would think about setting up a flower processing plant if cultivation was good.
He also encouraged farmers to work in areas of milk, animal husbandry, eggs and meat production and said his government has allotted Rs 700 crore in the 2017/18 budget for skill development of the people.
In his speech, Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers welfare Sudarshan Bhagat said the Safal plant would benefit the vegetable and fruit growers of Jharkhand.
Peas and jackfruit would be processed in the first phase and in the coming months other vegetables and fruits would be processed, he said.

The union minister said the agriculture sector in the tribal state was growing fast under the leadership of Raghubar Das.
Stating that the government was encouraging farmers to use organic fertilisers, Jharkhand Agriculture and Cooperative Minister Randhir Singh claimed that the state's image has changed due to its development.