HYDERABAD, Oct 21: The district nazim, Kanwar Naveed Jamil, inaugurated the eight MGD (million gallons per day) northern sewerage treatment plant near Isra University on the outskirts of the city here on Tuesday.

Speaking on the occasion, the nazim said that it was a unique sewerage treatment plant designed by an English firm.

He said that the sewage would be treated at this plant without using any chemical and the agricultural land where the treated water would be released would not require any fertiliser.

The district nazim said from time immemorial just like other urban cities, the sewage of Hyderabad used to be disposed of in the Phulelli canal and the Indus River, which polluted the water.

He said that to keep Indus River and Phulelli canal free from sewage, the district government had under taken the construction of four sewage treatment plants — northern, southern, eastern and western.

He said that the northern plant had already become operational, which was spread over 140 acres and had nine big ponds.

The nazim said that the plant had a capacity to treat eight MGD sewage, which would be profitably used for agricultural purposes.

He said a huge amount of Rs400 million had been spent on the construction of this treatment plant and the Phulelli canal water was now safe from pollution.

With the passage of time, the capacity of this plant would be further increased, the district nazim said.

He said that 60 per cent of work on the western treatment plant Qasimabad had also been completed. He hoped that it would become operational by the end of the current year.

Those who attended the function included nazim city taluka, Ghulam Shabbar Chishti, district chairman works committee, Munawar Khanzai, DG HDA Mohammad Javed Junejo, officials of the district government and others.