Date:05/07/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/07/05/stories/2008070552430300.htm

Andhra Pradesh

STP plant: council rejects VUDA’s plea

Correspondent

VIZIANAGARAM: Congress and TDP councillors at the Vizianagaram Municipal Council meeting on Thursday did not accept transfer of maintenance of sewage treatment plant from Visakhapatnam Urban Development Authority that it had executed and completed in the early 2004 at a cost of Rs.2.10 crores on the ground that the designing itself was faulty.

Faulty design

After the zero hour, municipal Chairperson M. Geetha tabled the proposal for transfer of STP maintenance and asked the VUDA Executive Engineer R.G. Krishna Reddy to explain the salient features of the plant.

While he was explaining that the STP was designed to treat five million litres of sewage water per day in Pedda Cheruvu that is located in the heart of the town, Lenka Rama Mohan Rao (36th ward), S.V.V. Rajesh (38th ward) (both Congress) and V.S. Prasad (19th ward), TDP floor leader said that due to faulty design and the coarse screens used as filters were causing water logging at clock tower, municipal office, PWD market areas on a rainy day.