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Contracts to manage plants for 15 years
The Namami Gange programme, or National Mission for Clean Ganga, has awarded contracts to set up to sewage treatment plants, each of 68 million litre a day (MLD) at Haridwar and one 15 MLD STP at Varanasi.
The contracts based on Hybrid Annuity model is first of its kind in the country’s waste water management sector.
The Central Government will fund the STPs construction.
The contractors will set up, operate and maintain the STPs for a period of 15 years.
Thereafter, it will be handed over to the local bodies. fii-news.com
