The plant would be established within the next three months at the Assighat. (Thinkstock)
Varanasi will soon get a drinking water plant at the historic Assighat, after which the people would be able to buy drinking water at 50 paise per litre.
A French company and sanitation NGO Sulabh International have joined hands to set up a drinking water plant in Varanasi. The plant would be established within the next three months.
"Through a new technology, the contaminated water of Ganga river will be converted into pure drinking water at a nominal cost." Sulabh founder Bindeshwar Pathak told IANS.
The proposed plant will produce around 8,000 litres of pure drinking water every day.
He said that Sulabh, along with French organisation '1001 Fontaines', launched a pilot project in three West Bengal districts of North 24-Parganas, Murshidabad and Nadia a few months ago and the trial run proved successful.
"Now we are going to replicate our new invention at Assiaghat," Pathak said on Thursday.
The plant is likely to cost Rs 20 lakh, an amount that would be borne by the Sulabh International.
The plant will provide safe drinking water after various stages of purification from any water bodies like rivers or ponds.