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[Audio] Welcome to the narrated presentation on Shallow Sewer System. The conventional sewerage system, besides requiring huge capital investment, is often found to encounter unreasonable delay in its implementation. A group of professions at NCPE, with over two decades of experience in the field of water supply and sewerage, have undertaken a pilot study in one sewerage zone of Nalgonda Municipality in Telangana in order to demonstrate that the shallow sewer system is cost effective, permits rapid implementation, causes least public nuisance and involves minimum road digging – a perfect recipe for the success of alternative system..

[Audio] More than 400 million Urban population of India is spread across 4000 ULBs. Urban roads are known to span over 8 lakhs kilometers, half of which are CC and BT roads. Only 40 thousand Kilometers of the road network is covered with underground sewerage system.

[Audio] It is a herculean task to implement conventional sewerage system in the uncovered urban areas in order to meet the Service Level Benchmarks. While an estimated amount of rupees 3 lakh crore is required to lay the sewer line, a whopping amount of rupees 2 lakh crore is likely to be required for restoration of the dug roads. Most of the ULBs in the country can ill afford such a huge capital investment. In this scenario, the shallow sewer system may turn out to be the panacea for the urban sewerage system.