Gujarat’s Deep-Sea Pipeline Scheme

Subject – Environment

Context – Gujarat’s deep-sea pipeline scheme remains non-starter

Concept –

In 2020, the government came out with a mega plan to lay the pipeline network to carry industrial effluents directly into the deep sea to save the Sabarmati, Mahisagar, Vishwamitra and Bhadar, which have become critically polluted due to unbated discharge of industrial effluents into them.
Under the project, treated effluent from 11 common effluent treatment plants (CETP) of Ahmedabad and one each from Kheda, Vadodara and Jetpur will be discharged into sea through pipelines that would be laid several kilometres in sub-sea.
The ambitious project will be developed under a public private partnership (PPP) by the state government and beneficiaries.
Of the total cost, around 70% will be borne by the government and the rest by industrial units through their respective associations.