How AMRUT 2.0 Is Driving Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) Upgrades Across India
Walk through any municipal corporation office in India today and sewage treatment will come up in nearly every infrastructure conversation. That’s not a coincidence. AMRUT 2.0, the Union Government’s flagship urban water mission, has made sewage treatment plant upgrades a funding priority, and cities that were running on decades-old infrastructure are now rebuilding from the ground up. What Is AMRUT 2.0? AMRUT 2.0, short for Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation 2.0, is a five-year central government scheme running from FY 2021-22 to FY 2025-26, with a total indicative outlay of ₹2,99,000 crore, including a central share of ₹76,760 crore. It builds on the original AMRUT scheme launched in June 2015 and extends coverage to nearly 4,800 statutory towns for water supply, while targeting 100% coverage of sewerage and septage management in the 500 cities already covered under AMRUT 1.0. The mission’s core goal is to make Indian cities “water secure” and “self-sustai...