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Key priority areas identied during the meeting included:

• Bridging gaps in sewage treatment capacity
• Enhancing performance and utilisation of existing Sewage Treatment Plants (STPs)
• Expediting ongoing and tendered STP projects and sewerage networks

• Strengthening industrial pollution control mechanisms
• Scaling up reuse of treated wastewater
• Accelerating oodplain demarcation and zoning

This integrated approach aims to ensure that infrastructure investments translate into
measurable environmental outcomes.

Strengthening Monitoring detailed review of progress Concluding the meeting, the
and Accountability
across multiple states and Chair emphasized the need for
Recognizing the importance of
Union Territories, including a time-bound and outcome-
transparency and data-driven
Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, oriented approach to river
decision-making, the
Bihar, Jharkhand, West rejuvenation. States were
Committee stressed the need
Bengal, Delhi, Haryana, urged to strengthen inter-
for real-time monitoring
systems. States were Chhattisgarh, Madhya departmental coordination,
encouraged to adopt advanced Pradesh, Rajasthan, Odisha, improve operational efciency,
monitoring mechanisms to Punjab, Jammu & Kashmir, and ensure sustained
track pollution levels, and the island territories of compliance with
infrastructure performance, Andaman & Nicobar and environmental norms.
and compliance in a timely Lakshadweep. As India continues its journey
manner. towards cleaner and healthier
Discussions covered key
Institutional frameworks such rivers, the role of continuous
aspects such as sewage
as River Rejuvenation monitoring and adaptive
treatment capacity, utilisation
Committees were also governance remains critical.
reviewed, with emphasis on levels, oodplain zoning, reuse The Central Monitoring

enhancing their effectiveness of treated wastewater, and Committee, through its

in coordinating actions across institutional monitoring regular reviews and strategic

departments and ensuring mechanisms. This state-wise guidance, is playing a pivotal
accountability at the state assessment enables targeted role in ensuring that efforts on
level.
interventions tailored to the ground translate into
State-Wise Review: specic regional challenges tangible and lasting
A Comprehensive Approach improvements in river
and requirements.
The meeting undertook a A Forward-Looking Roadmap ecosystems.

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