February 2012

GURGAON: A day after TOI reported the underperformance of the Behrampur sewage treatment plant, HUDA has written to the town and country planning department to instruct the builders to expedite the sewerage connection process. The HUDA officials claimed that the STP was equipped to handle 50MLD sewage treatment but unless the developers link the sewerage line to the master sewerage line of HUDA, the plant would continue to function under capacity. The executive engineer, HUDA, A K Maggu, has written to the town and country planning department stating that all the licensed colonies have not applied for sewerage connection. “These colonies have been completed or partly completed but the builders

GURGAON: A resident of Malibu Towne has written to the Town and Country Planning (TCP) department, complaining against the Behrampur sewage treatment plant (STP), which he alleged is adding a huge quantity of untreated effluent waste to the Yamuna river in the capital on a daily basis.” The smell and the colour of the effluent is an indication enough how bad the situation is in the plant,” said Raman Sharma, who has written to the financial commissioner of TCP, to complain about the situation.The STP was built at a cost of Rs 20 crore for treating sewerage waste generated from different HUDA sectors in new Gurgaon. While the plant has

Commuters will soon have a smooth ride along the busy Palam Vihar Road which connects sectors 4 and 5 of Gurgaon. The poor condition of the 3km stretch had cost the job of Huda’s superintending engineer VK Ghai in January. Ghai lost the job when SS Dhillon, financial commissioner-cum-principal secretary, town and country planning inspected the area and found that the road’s width had been reduced to 14 metre from its actual width of 30 metre. Dhillon had pulled up Huda officials for use of poor quality of construction materials, absence of pavements, streetlights, and central verge. According to a senor official of the Haryana Urban Development Authority (Huda), the