Following the invitation of Member of Parliament (Ludhiana) Mr. Manish Tewari, the Hon’ble Minister for Environment and Forests Mr. Jairam Ramesh along with officials of the Ministry of Environment and Forests including the Chairman of the Central Pollution Control Board, visited the site of the Buddha Nala in Ludhiana, Punjab in September of 2010. During his visit, he was taken on an inspection of the Nala and was made aware of the debilitating and overwhelming degree to which the Nala had been polluted due to the presence of untreated waste.

Thereafter the Hon’ble Minister ordered site studies to be undertaken and a proposal for an ‘In Situ Bio-Remediation Project’ was drawn up. This revolutionary method, which has been used with great success worldwide, employs the use of microbes to eat away the waste component of effluents that are discharged into the water.

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