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Bentley Systems Awards NJS Engineers For ‘Clean Ganga’

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Singapore: Pune-based NJS Engineers Private Limited, which is working on the Japan International Cooperation Agency-assisted Ganga Action Plan-II at Varanasi, received the “Be Inspired” BIM Advancement in Environmental Award.

Bentley Systems, a global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing infrastructure recently organized the event, ‘The Year in Infrastructure 2017 Conference’, and announced the winners of the 2017 Be Inspired Awards.

The annual awards program honors the extraordinary work of Bentley users advancing the world’s infrastructure. At Conference, Bentley acknowledged 17 “Be Inspired” Awards winners and six Special Recognition Awards winners.

The Year in Infrastructure Conference is Bentley’s annual global gathering of leading professionals in the world of infrastructure design, construction, and operations. In addition to thought-provoking keynotes, technology demonstrations, industry forums, and panel discussions, the agenda included presentations by finalists in the awards program, culminating in the selection of the winning projects.

This year, 10 independent panels of jurors, comprising distinguished industry experts, selected the Be Inspired Awards winners from 51 project finalists. These finalists were chosen from more than 400 submissions by organizations in over 50 countries.

BIM Advancements in Environmental Engineering

NJS Engineers India bagged, the award from the vendor for the JICA Assisted Ganga Action Plan II – Varanasi. The Ganga cleaning project, worth Rs 496.90 crore, is to improve water quality and river ecology as well as to stop pollution from the Ganga river and its tributary the Varuna river. PTI reports, “”The scope of work is to intercept, divert and treat the increased domestic sewage generated,” head of Information Technology Enabled Services at NJS Rohit Dembi said at Bentley’s Year in Infrastructure 2017 conference. The existing sewerage facilities, oldest of which was installed in 1917, was designed to handle 102 million liters per day (MLD) sewage while present generation in Varanasi is about 300 MLD.”

Therefore, 67 per cent untreated sewage was being discharged into the Ganga river, either directly or via the Varuna river before the commission of this project, Dembi said.

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