BHUBANESWAR: Health and family welfare department will submit data before the comptroller and auditor general (CAG) of India on water contamination diseases in urban local bodies (ULBs) in the state for performance audit on storm water drainage and sewerage management system in municipal corporations.
The CAG has decided to undertake the performance audit for the period from 2016-17 to 2021-22. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has expressed its displeasure that all the rivers in Odisha are polluted due to wastewater of the cities mixing with rivers causing health hazards to the public and animals.
The CAG has asked for information through a proforma. It has seven columns like name of the ULBs, year, name of the hospital, number of persons admitted for treatment of water contamination diseases, name of the diseases, number of persons relief after preliminary treatment and number of people declared as dead for water contamination diseases.
“You are, therefore, requested to provide the requisite information for treatment of public on water contamination diseases in different health care units of the government from 2016-17 to 2021-22 according to the proforma,” said the health department letter to director of public health of the state.
Many ULBs including Cuttack have been releasing wastewater to its nearby rivers. Human settlements along the river banks directly discharge sewage into the river because they do not have proper drainage and sewerage lines. The sewer water pollutes the river.
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