Lok Sabha Question No. 137 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-02-02
Subject: Exploitation of Ground Water by Industries
Ministry: WATER RESOURCES, RIVER DEVELOPMENT AND GANAGA REJUVENATION
Asked by: DEVENDRA (ALIAS) BHOLE SINGH SINGH

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF WATER RESOURCES, RIVER DEVELOPMENT & GANGA REJUVENATION

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. †137

ANSWERED ON 02.02.2017

## EXPLOITATION OF GROUND WATER BY INDUSTRIES

## †137. SHRI DEVENDRA SINGH BHOLE

Will the Minister of WATER RESOURCES, RIVER DEVELOPMENT AND GANGA REJUVENATION be pleased to state:

(a) whether the ground water is being exploited by the industrial units in the country, if so, the details thereof, State-wise;

(b) the names of industries/factories situated in Kanpur rural which are exploiting ground water and the level of ground water has fallen to such an extent in the entire surrounding areas that irrigation has become impossible for cultivation there; and

(c) the steps being taken to stop further exploitation of the ground water there and to raise its level along with the action taken/ to be taken against such industries/factories?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR WATER RESOURCES, RIVER DEVELOPMENT AND GANGA REJUVENATION

## (DR. SANJEEV KUMAR BALYAN)

(a)    As  per  the  'No  Objection  Certificate'  (NOC)  issued  by  the  Central  Ground  Water  Authority (CGWA)  for  withdrawal  of  ground  water,  the  total  amount  of  ground  water  withdrawn  by  the industries to whom NOC has been issued during the last five years (2011-12 to 2015-16) is 238 MCM (Million Cubic Metre).  State-wise details are given at Annexure - I .

(b)    As  per  the  information  provided  by  Regional  Office,  Uttar  Pradesh  Pollution  Control  Board, Kanpur, the list of the industries/factories situated in Kanpur Dehat is enclosed at Annexure - II .  The list of the industries are classified as 'Red', 'Orange' and 'Green' based on pollution criteria.  A copy of Schedule VIII indicating the type of industries under various categories is enclosed at Annexure-

III. All  the  industries  in  Kanpur  Dehat  are  abstracting  ground  water.    As  per  the  ground  water assessment  report  -2011,  jointly  carried  out  by  Central  Ground  Water  Board  (CGWB)  and  State Government, all the blocks of Kanpur Dehat falls under 'Safe' category, where annual ground water draft  (withdrawal)  is  less  than  net  annual  ground  water  availability  and  there  is  no  long  term significant decline in ground water levels.

(c)  The details of the steps being taken for ground water management and augmentation are -

(i)Ministry of Water Resources, RD & GR has formulated the National Water Policy (2012) formulated which, inter-alia, advocates conservation, promotion and protection of water  and highlights  the  need  for  augmenting  the  availability  of  water  through  rain  water  harvesting, direct use of rainfall and other management measures. The National Water Policy (2012) has been  forwarded  to  all  State  Governments/  UTs  and  concerned  Ministries/  Departments  of Central Government for adoption.

(ii)The  Ministry  of  Drinking  Water  &  Sanitation  has  suggested  all  States  to  adopt  water conservation measures like roof top rainwater harvesting, erecting sustainability structures for

water  conservation  etc.  For  creating  such  sustainability  structures,  10  %  of  National  Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP) funds are provided to the States

(iii)'Master Plan for Artificial Recharge to Ground Water in India' has been prepared, which envisages  construction  of  different  types  of  Artificial  Recharge  and  Rainwater  Harvesting structures  in  the  Country.  The  Master  Plan  has  been  circulated  to  all  States/  UTs  including Uttar  Pradesh  for  implementaition.  The  Master  Plan  envisages  the  construction  of  1122 artificial recharge structures in Kanpur Dehat at an estimated cost of Rs. 7672 lakh.

(iv)Department  of  Land  Resources  is  currently  implementing  8214  watershed  development projects  in  28  States  covering  an  area  of  about  39.07  million  ha.  under  the  Watershed Development Component (WDC) of the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY) principally for development  of rainfed portions of net cultivated area and culturable wastelands.  The major activities taken up under the WDC-PMKSY, inter-alia, include ridge area treatment, drainage line afforestation, soil and moisture conservation, rain water harvesting,  horticulture, and pasture development etc.

(v)CGWB has taken up Aquifer Mapping and Management programme during XII Plan, under the scheme of Ground Water Management and Regulation. The Aquifer Mapping is aimed to delineate aquifer disposition and their characterization for preparation of aquifer/area specific ground water management plans, with community participation.

(vi)MoWR, RD & GR has also launched 'Jal Kranti Abhiyan' (2015-16 to 2017-18) in order to consolidate  water  conservation  and  management  in  the  Country  through  a  holistic  and integrated approach involving all stakeholders, making it a mass movement.

(vii)CGWB has been organizing mass awareness programmes in the Country to promote rain water  harvesting  and  artificial  recharge  to  ground  water;  more  than  17  lakh  children participated in a nation-wide painting competition in the last year to promote conservation of water.

(viii)Special focus is given through Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) for water conservation and water harvesting structures to augment ground water.  In addition, priority has been given for construction of farm ponds in the year 2016-17 to harvest rain water.

( ix)The Ministry has circulated a Model Bill to all the States/UTs including Uttar Pradesh to enable  them  to  enact  suitable  ground  water  legislation  for  its  regulation  and  development which includes provision of rain water harvesting.

(x)CGWA has framed 'Guidelines/ Criteria for Evaluation of Proposals/ Requests for Ground Water  Abstraction'  to  accord  NOC  for  industries/  infrastructure/  mining  projects  in  nonnotified  areas.    As  per  the  provision  of  the  guidelines,  recycling  and  reuse  of  water  is  a mandatory part of the NOC. Further, ground water withdrawal is permitted in accordance to the recharge measures proposed.

(xi)Government  of  Uttar  Pradesh  has  made  Roof  Top  Rain  Water  Harvesting  mandatory  in Government/ new buildings having more than 300 sq.m area.

(xii)Government of Uttar Pradesh has implemented 'Comprehensive Policy for Ground Water Management, Rain Water Harvesting & Ground Water'. A high-level monitoring committee has been constituted to monitor the implementation of the policy.

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Annexure referred in reply to Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 137 dated 02.02.2017 regarding 'Exploitation of Ground Water by Industries'

## State-wise details of Withdrawal of Ground Water by the Industries to whom NOC have been accorded by CGWA during the Last Five Years (2011-12 to 2015-16)

| S. No.   | State/UT            |   Total Withdrawal (in cubic meter) |
|----------|---------------------|-------------------------------------|
| 1        | Andhra Pradesh      |                             7659400 |
| 2        | Arunachal Pradesh   |                               14465 |
| 3        | Assam               |                             4917730 |
| 4        | Bihar               |                             6334835 |
| 5        | Chhattisgarh        |                            33139482 |
| 6        | Dadra &Nagar Haveli |                              453600 |
| 7        | Gujarat             |                            14415652 |
| 8        | Haryana             |                            13360270 |
| 9        | Jammu &Kashmir      |                             1698730 |
| 10       | Jharkhand           |                             2958755 |
| 11       | Karnataka           |                             4211021 |
| 12       | Madhya Pradesh      |                            12717510 |
| 13       | Maharashtra         |                            10966655 |
| 14       | Manipur             |                               39985 |
| 15       | Mizoram             |                                7370 |
| 16       | Meghalaya           |                              653200 |
| 17       | Nagaland            |                               17127 |
| 18       | Odisha              |                            22792210 |
| 19       | Punjab              |                            17924690 |
| 20       | Rajasthan           |                            40489831 |
| 21       | Tamil Nadu          |                             4049172 |
| 22       | Tripura             |                               41877 |
| 23       | Uttar Pradesh       |                            34454749 |
| 24       | Uttarakhand         |                             5159653 |
|          | Total (cubic meter) |                           238477969 |
|          | Total (MCM)         |                                -238 |

MCM  Million Cubic Metre

Annexure  referred  in  reply  to Lok  Sabha  Unstarred  Question  No.  137 dated 02.02.2017 regarding 'Exploitation of Ground Water by Industries'

## SCHEDULE - VIII

[see rules 3(2) and 12]

## Classification of industries for consent management [Red, Orange & Green Categories]

## I. List of Industries under 'RED' Category

A. Industries identified by Ministry of Environment & Forests, Govt. of India as heavily polluting and covered under Central Action Plan, viz.

- (1) Distillery including Fermentation industry.
- (2) Sugar (excluding Khandsari)
- (3) Fertiliser.
- (4) Pulp & Paper (Paper manufacturing with or without pulping).
- (5) Chlor alkali
- (6) Pharmaceuticals (Basic) (excluding formulation).
- (7) Dyes and Dye-intermediates.
- (8) Pesticides (Technical) (excluding formulation).
- (9) Oil refinery (Mineral oil or Petro refineries).
- (10) Tanneries
- (11) Petrochemicals (Manufacture of and not merely use of as raw material).
- (12) Cement
- (13) Thermal power plants
- (14) Iron and Steel (Involving processing from ore/ scrap/Integrated steel plants)
- (15) Zinc smelter
- (16) Copper smelter
- (17) Aluminium smelter

## B. Industries manufacturing following products or carrying out following activities

- (1) Tyres and tubes Vulcanisation/Retreading/ moulding).
- (2) Synthetic rubber.
- (3) Glass and fibre glass production and processing.
- (4) Industrial carbon including electrodes and graphite blocks, activated carbon, carbon black etc.
- (5) Paints and varnishes (excluding blending/mixing).
- (6) Pigments and intermediates.
- (7) Synthetic resins.
- (8) Petroleum products involving storage, transfer or processing.
- (9) Lubricating oils, greases or petroleum - based products.
- (10) Synthetic fibre including rayon, tyre cord, polyester filament yarn.
- (11) Surgical and medical products involving prophylactics and latex.
- (12) Synthetic detergent and soap.
- (13) Photographic films and chemicals.
- (14) Chemical, petrochemical and electrochemicals including manufacture of acids such as Sulphuric Acid, Nitric Acid, Phosphoric Acid etc.
- (15) Industrial or inorganic gases.
- (16) Chlorates, perchlorates and peroxides.
- (17) Glue and gelatine.
- (18) Yarn and textile processing involving scouring, bleaching, dyeing, printing or any effluent/emission

generating process.

- (19) Vegetable oils including solvent extracted oils, hydro-generated oils.
- (20) Industry or process involving metal treatment or process such as picking, surface coating, paint baking, paint stripping, heat treatment, phosphating or finishing etc.
- (21) Industry or process involving electroplating operations.
- (22) Asbestos and asbestos-based industries.
- (23) Slaughter houses and meat processing units.
- (24) Fermentation industry including manufacture of yeast, beer etc.
- (25) Steel and steel products including coke plants involving use of any of the equipment's such as blast furnaces, open hearth furnance, induction furnance
- (26) Incineration plants
- (27) Power generating plants (excluding D.G. Sets).
- (28) Lime manufacturing
- (29) Tobacco products including cigarettes and tobacco processing.
- (30) Dry coat processing/ Mineral processing industries like ore sintering, palletization, etc.
- (31) Phosphate rock processing plants.
- (32) Coke making, coal liquefaction, coaltar distillation or fuel gas making.
- (33) Phosphorous and its compounds.
- (34) Explosives including detonators, fuses etc.
- (35) Fire crackers.
- (36) Processes involving chlorinated hydrocarbons.
- (37) Chlorine, fluorine, bromine, iodine and their compounds.
- (38) Hydrocyanic acid and its derivatives.
- (39) Milk processing and dairy products (Integrated Project).
- (40) Industry or process involving foundry operations.
- (41) Potable alcohol (IMFL) by blending or distillation of alcohol.
- (42) Anodizing.
- (43) Ceramic/ refractories.
- (44) Lead processing and battery reconditioning & manufacturing including lead smelting.
- (45) Hot Mix plants
- (46) Hospitals
- (47) Mining and ore-beneficiation

## II. List of Industries 'ORANGE" Category.

- (1) Manufacture of mirror from sheet glass and photoframing.
- (2) Cotton spinning and weaving.
- (3) Automobile servicing and repairs stations.
- (4) Hotels and restaurants.
- (5) Flour mills (excluding Domestic Aatta Chakki)
- (6) Malted food.
- (7) Food including fruits and vegetable processing.
- (8) Pulping and fermenting of coffee beans.
- (9) Instant tea/coffee, coffee processing.
- (10) Non-alcoholic beverages (soft drinks)
- (11) Fragrances and industrial perfumes.
- (12) Food additives, nutrients and flavours.
- (13) Fish processing.
- (14) Organic nutrients.
- (15) Surgical and medical products not involving effluent/ e mission generating processes.
- (16) Laboratory-wares.
- (17) Wire drawing (cold process) and bailing straps.
- (18) Stone crushers.
- (19) Laboratory chemicals involving distillation, purification process.
- (20) Tyres and tubes vulcanisation, vutcanisation, retreading, moulding.
- (21) Pesticides/Insecticides/ Fungicides/ Herbicides/ Agro chemical formulation.
- (22) NPK Fertilisers/ Granulation.
- (23) Pharmaceuticals formulation.
- (24) Khandsari sugar.
- (25) Pulverizing units.

## III. List of Industries under "GREEN" category'.

- A. Industries  in  Small  Scale,  Cottage/Village  category  suggested  under  notification  of  the  State Government/Union  Territory  for  issuance  of  simplified  NOC/Consent  from  State  Pollution Control Board/Pollution Control Committee, as the case may be.
- B. All  those  industries  or  processes  which  are  not  covered  under  the  "Red"  and/or  "Orange" category; An illustrative list is provided below.
- (1) Wasting of used sand by hydraulic discharge.
- (2) Atta-chakkies.
- (3) Rice mull.ors.
- (4) Steeping and processing of grains.
- (5) Mineralised water.
- (6) Dal mills.
- (7) Bakery products, biscuits confectionery.
- (8) Groundnut decorticating (dry).
- (9) Supari (Betelnut) and masala grinding.
- (10) Chilling plants and cold storages.
- (11) Ice-cream or Ice-making.
- (12) Tailoring and garment making.
- (13) Cotton and woolen hosiery.
- (14) Apparel making
- (15) Handloom weaving
- (16) Shoelace manufacturing
- (17) Gold and silver thread zari work.
- (18) Gold and silver smithy.
- (19) Leather footwear and leather products excluding tanning and hide processing.
- (20) Musical instruments manufacturing.
- (21) Sports goods.
- (22) Bamboo and cane products (only dry operations)
- (23) Cardboard or corrugated box and paper products (Paper or pulp manufacturing excluded).
- (24) Insulation and other coated papers (Paper or pulp manufacturing excluded).
- (25) Scientific and mathematical instruments.
- (26) Furniture (wooden and steel).
- (27) Assembly of domestic electrical appliances.
- (28) Radio assembling.
- (29) Fountain pens.
- (30) Polythene, plastic and P.V.C. goods through extrusion moulding.
- (31) Rope (cotton and plastic).
- (32) Carpet weaving.
- (33) Assembly of air coolers, conditioners.
- (34) Assembly of bicycles, baby carriage and other small non-motorised vehicles.
- (35) Electronics equipment (Assembly).
- (36) Toys.
- (37) Water softening and demineralised plants.
- (38) Paint (by mixing process only).
- (39) Candles.
- (40) Carpentry (excluding saw mill).
- (41) Oil ginning/expelling (no hydrogenation/refining).
- (42) Jobbing and machining.
- (43) Manufacture of steel trunks and suitcases.
- (44) Paper pins and U-clips.
- (45) Block making for printing.
- (46) Optical frames.
- (47) Powerlooms.//handlooms (without dyeing & bleaching).
- (48) Printing press.
- (49) Garments stitching, tailoring.
- (50) Thermometer making.
- (51) Footwear (rubber).
- (52) Plastic processed goods.
- (53) Medical and surgical instruments
- (54) Electronic and electrical goods.
- (55) Rubber goods industry.

Note: The industry which do not fall any of the above mentioned three categories (i.e. Red/Orange/Green),  decision  with  regard  to  their  categorisation  will  be  taken  by  a  committee  at Head. Office level comprising of the Member Secretary and two senior offices of the Board/Committee.