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Centre okays desalination plant in AP
Our Bureau
Hyderabad
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Nov. 22
THE Centre has given the nod to set up the country's first desalination plant in the Government sector at Bheemunipatnam in Andhra Pradesh.
The Centre would bear 90 per cent cost of Rs 9-crore project, while the State Government will chip in the remaining amount.
Announcing this here on Saturday at a press conference, Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad, Union Minister for Urban Development, said he had asked the State Government to send project reports for three more such plants. The plant could produce 2.8 million litres a day.
Earlier, Mr Azad reviewed several urban development projects being taken up in the State with the Chief Minister and top officials. Mr Azad said the Government would study the successful urban solid waste management experiment in Andhra Pradesh and evolve a policy that could be replicated elsewhere in the country.
Referring to such plants in Vijayawada and Shadnagar, he said the Government would send a team of experts to the State to study the model. After that, the Government would convene a meeting of States to discuss the model.
Besides managing the garbage problem, these plants would help in generating power.
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