Indian State to Invest in Sewage Treatment Plants

The Indian state of Bihar is to get Rs30bn ($646.6m) in government funding to set up sewage treatment plants in 19 towns.

The projects include a sewage plant in state capital Patna, which will be built at a cost of Rs15bn ($324m).

The funding is part of a Rs150bn ($3bn) project to prevent the discharge of untreated municipal sewage and industrial effluent into the River Ganga by 2020, according to The Hindu.

The project is being carried out by the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA). A similar programme, Mission Clean Ganga, was launched in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Uttrakhand and West Bengal.