Bentley’s applauds sewage project

A Japanese-Indian joint venture has won an engineering excellence award for a sewage treating project on India’s Ganga river.

NJS Engineers Pvt Ltd, which is working on the Japan International Cooperation Agency-assisted Ganga Action Plan-II at Varanasi, received the “Be Inspired” BIM Advancement in Environmental Award.

The Rs.496.90 crore project is to improve water quality and river ecology as well as to stop pollution of rivers Ganga/Varuna. It will be completed by 31 July 2018 as part of the National Mission for Cleaning Ganga.

“The scope of work is to intercept, divert and treat the increased domestic sewage generated,” said Rohit Dembi, head of Information Technology Enabled Services at NJS, in his presentation at the Bentley’s Year in Infrastructure 2017 conference which ended 12 October 2017.

The existing sewerage facilities, oldest of which was installed in 1917, was designed to handle 102 million litres per day (MLD) sewage while present generation from Varanasi city is about 300 MLD, 67 per cent flowing directly or indirectly into Ganga through Varuna.

NJS, the only finalist from India at the awards, is a joint venture of NJS Consultants of Japan, and India’s ICRA Management Consulting Services as well as Tata Consulting Engineers.

The company was announced winner in the environmental engineering out of more than 400 nominations submitted by organizations in more than 50 countries, said Bentley Systems Inc, the organizers of the awards and conference. fii-news.com