New Delhi, June 14 -- The Delhi Government is going to set up Common Effluent Treatment Plants (CETPs) at 27 "redevelopment" areas across the city by the end of this year to treat sewage, officials said.
The city has perennially been battling to make the Yamuna River clean, but the task is made tougher with the untreated sewage flowing into it from these unorganised industrial areas.
Some of the bigger of these areas are located in Anand Parbat, Samaypur Badli, Dabri, Dilshad Garden, Jawahar Nagar and Karawal Nagar.
At present, Delhi has 13 CETPs, which cater to 17 notified industrial areas with a total capacity of treating around 200 million litres of water per day (MLD).
The Delhi Pollution Control Committee has several times in the p...