Lok Sabha Question No. 850 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-02-07
Subject: Environmental Pollution
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT,  FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: RAMACHANDRAN MULLAPPALLY

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.850

TO BE ANSWERED ON 07.02.2017

## Environmental Pollution

## 850. SHRI MULLAPPALLY RAMACHANDRAN:

Will the Minister of ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has conducted any study to determine the major causes for the high environmental pollution in Delhi;
- (b) if so, the details and findings thereof; and
- (c) the emergency measures taken/being taken by the Government to check/control the increasing level of pollution?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE (SHRI ANIL MADHAV DAVE)

- (a) & (b) Government of Delhi has carried out with the help of IIT Kanpur, a comprehensive study of air  pollution  in  Delhi  and  identified  major  sources  of  air  pollution  viz.  road  dust, vehicular  emissions,  construction  and  demolition  waste,  industries,  gensets  and  secondary particulate  matters  etc.  Major  sources  for  different  parameters  and  their  contribution  in percentage is indicated in Annexure.
- (c) The Government has taken a number of urgent measures to address air pollution in Delhi which, inter  alia, include  issuance  of  statutory  directions  under  Section  18  (1)(b)  of  Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981, for implementation of various activities to mitigate  the  level  of  pollution,  notification  of  National  Ambient  Air  Quality  Standards; setting up of monitoring network for assessment of ambient air quality; launching of National Air  Quality  index;  leapfrogging  from  BS-IV  to  BS-VI  fuel  standards  by  1 st April,  2020; comprehensive  amendments  to  various  Waste  Management  Rules  and  notification  of Construction  and  Demolition  Waste  Management  Rules;  banning  of  burning  of  leaves, biomass,  municipal  solid  waste;  regular  co-ordination  meetings  at  official  and  ministerial level  with  Delhi  and  other  State  Governments  within  the  NCR;  constitution  of  centralized monitoring committee and state monitoring committee and notification of Graded Response Action Pan for different levels of Air Quality Index  in Delhi NCR etc.

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ANNEXURE

ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (a)  &  (b)  OF  LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION N0. 850 DUE FOR REPLY ON 07/02/2017 REGARDING ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION RAISED BY SHRI MULLAPPALLY RAMACHANDRAN, HON'BLE MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT

Major sources of Air Pollution in Delhi for different parameters and their contribution (in percentage)

| Sources parameters           | Road dust   |   Vehicles |   Industrial sources | Construction / concrete batching   | Domestic   | DG Sets   |
|------------------------------|-------------|------------|----------------------|------------------------------------|------------|-----------|
| Particulate Matter (PM 2.5 ) | 38          |         20 |                   11 | -                                  | 12         | -         |
| Particulate Matter (PM 10 )  | 56          |          9 |                   10 | 10                                 | -          | -         |
| NO 2                         | -           |         36 |                   52 | -                                  | 3          | 6         |