Gujarat’s deep-sea pipeline remains a non-starter

Sabarmati river has become critically polluted due to unbated discharge of industrial effluents into them. (Source: The Hindu)

Billed as the innovative solution to the perennial problem of river pollution in Gujarat, the State government’s ambitious ₹2,300-crore sub-sea effluent disposal pipeline project remains a non-starter even as the pollution in the rivers has gone beyond critical level due to increasing industrialisation.

The State government, after floating the tender in 2020, has not moved on the project and is now apparently considering re-working it.