Chandigarh: The Rural Development and Panchayat and Water Supply and Sanitation Minister, Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa has said that the Punjab government was making sincere efforts to preserve and clean the ponds.
As part of this drive, the Canada based Nature's Care Company company gave a detailed presentation for cleaning of ponds through a natural process here today. The Minister said that after the presentation it was decided to install the new Windmill Technique at two places as a pilot project in the state for cleaning of the ponds.
Bajwa said that the officers and technical experts of the rural Development and Panchayat and Water Supply and Sanitation Department were also present on this occasion. He said that in consultation with the officers and the department experts it was decided to run two pilot projects for cleaning of ponds with the Windmill technique.
Bajwa further said that after the success of pilot projects the final decision would be taken for using this technique for cleaning ponds across the state. He said that as per pilot projects one of these two projects would be planted on a pond where already sewage treatment plant is installed and second where dirty water is directly going into the pond.