Bilaspur. In Bilaspur district of Chhattisgarh, water hyacinth will be cleaned from all water sources including rivers and ponds with weed harvesting machine. The special thing is that this machine is 2 km. Can extract water hyacinth up to 7 feet width at the speed of hourly. This will easily clean the river and pond. This is expected to get rid of dirty water and mosquitoes in the city. Fertilizer will be made from water hyacinth.
Will get rid of dirty water and mosquitoes
It is worth mentioning that due to the presence of water hyacinth in the ponds of the city, the water there cannot be used for irrigation. At the same time, mosquitoes thrive in settlements near rivers and ponds. The water becomes dirty due to water hyacinth and there is a possibility of spreading disease. This is the reason, Mayor Ramsharan Yadav made a plan to free the river and ponds from water hyacinth and held a meeting with the officers of the district administration.
One year contract given to Delhi company
Hyacinth cleaning machine weed harvester works very fast. Hyacinth collects by swimming on the water. Throws it back, which is collected in the trolley. Then after that the trolley is sent to the ground through the truck. The machine will work under this process. Delhi’s company will have to give the contract to the corporation every month. Rent Municipal Corporation has given the contract to M/s Clean Tech Infra Company of Delhi. Under this, the company has been given work for one year. The municipal corporation will have to pay about Rs 13 lakh 50 thousand as rent every month to the contracting company. After getting the contract, the company has started working from Saturday after ordering the machine from Pune.
Water hyacinth will be cleaned daily for 8 hours
Mayor Ramsharan Yadav formally inaugurated the work of extracting water hyacinth from the machine by offering prayers at Chhathghat on Saturday. During this, he said that there are many ponds in the Municipal Corporation limits. Even more important is to preserve the Arpa river. Water remains dirty because of water hyacinth. Now after the work of extracting hyacinth from the machine starts, people will get clean water in every season for disposal. Municipal Corporation’s EE Anupam Tiwari told that, the Municipal Corporation has contracted to get the machine working in the corporation area for one year except for three months of rain. The corporation will transport all the water hyacinth extracted by the machine to the solid waste management plant at Cachar, where it will be processed and converted into manure. This machine will clean water hyacinth for 8 hours daily.
