Bhubaneswar: Five municipal corporations in the state have established 11 sewerage treatment plants to process wastewater generated within their jurisdictions, disclosed housing and urban development minister Krushna Chandra Mahapatra in the assembly.
The municipal corporations are Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Sambalpur, Berhampur, and Rourkela where underground sewerage network has been laid.In these municipal bodies, wastewater is channelled through the underground sewerage network and then processed at the STPs.
In response to a query posed by MLA Prasant Behera, Mahapatra further elaborated that in addition to the five municipal corporations, a wastewater treatment plant has been commissioned in Talcher to treat the effluents generated by this industrial cluster.
“Moreover, 120 faecal sludge treatment plants are currently operational across 115 urban local bodies of the state to process the septage collected from the septic tanks installed in the various households,” the minister elucidated.
Mahapatra also revealed that the treated wastewater is utilised for gardening.“A grey water management programme has been implemented across the state to treat grey water, which is discharged from washrooms and kitchens,” the minister affirmed. The Sustainable Development Goal India Index Report 2023-24 released by the NITI Aayog recently mentioned that the urban areas of the state treats 29.49% of wastewater throug sewerage treatment plants.

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