Six months after Chief Minister Mayawati dedicated it to the people, Asia’s largest sewage treatment plant at Bharwara, on Lucknow’s outskirts, is fully operational.
All 26 drains of city have been connected to the STP and it is treating about 340 million litres of the city’s 400 million litres of sewage discharge daily. The balance 60 million litres is being treated at an old plant in Gaughat.
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