Itanagar Municipal Corporation (IMC) Mayor Tamme Phassang, along with IMC Commissioner Likha Teji and engineers on Thursday inspected the under-construction sewerage treatment plant (STP) and directed the officials and the contractors to complete the project “as per the deadline.”

The project was approved under the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation & Urban Transformation 1.0 in 2018, the mayor stated, with a project cost of Rs 36 crore. Once completed, the STP will be helpful in treating the wastewater coming out from the sewers of Naharlagun area.

It is to be mentioned that the National Green Tribunal has its eye on the project and has already fined the IMC for not having this plant, according to Mayor Phassang, who emphasised the significance of the STP.

“In 2018, the IMC had not been established; however, it is our duty to maintain the DPR and complete the project as per the agreement,” he said, adding that “not a single penny was released for the project” during his tenure as the mayor.

“Whatever funds were released earlier, they were from the officials’ end. Funds against the project are available with the IMC and it will be released as per the agreement only against the completed work,” Mayor Phassang said.

He informed that a committee, comprising Corporators Kipa Takum, Lokam Anand, Tamuk Tagiang and Tadar Hanghi, has been formed to supervise the project to ensure that the plant is completed as soon as possible, without its quality being compromised.

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