Lok Sabha Question No. 948 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-11-22
Subject: Pollution Measuring Devices
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT,  FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: MEENAKASHI LEKHI

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.948

TO BE ANSWERED ON 22.11.2016

## Pollution Measuring Devices

## 948. SHRIMATI MEENAKASHI LEKHI:

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

- (a)   whether  the  Government  has  any  plan  to  install  air  pollution  measuring  devices  in  all cities across the country;
- (b)   if so, the details thereof and the time by which such devices are likely to be installed; and
- (c)   the details of funds sanctioned/ released for the said purpose?

## ANSWER

MINISTER  OF  STATE  (INDEPENDENT  CHARGE)  FOR  ENVIRONMENT,  FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE

(SHRI ANIL MADHAV DAVE)

(a) & (b) The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) monitors the ambient air quality in the country  under  the  scheme  'National  Air  Quality  Monitoring  Programme'  (NAMP).  The NAMP  network  presently  comprises  638  manual  monitoring  stations  located  in  271 cities/towns in 29 States and 5 Union Territories(UT). Besides 53 Continuous Ambient Air Quality  Monitoring  Stations  (CAAQMS)  are  operational  in  29  cities.  The  coverage  under CAAQMS is being expanded to 51 more cities (Annexure-I).

- (c) The financial assistance provided by the Ministry under NAMP to States/UTs is given at Annexure-II.

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## ANNEXURE-I

ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (a)&  (b)  OF  LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 948DUE FOR REPLY ON 22/11/2016 REGARDING 'POLLUTION  MEASURING  DEVICES'  RAISED  BY  SHRIMATI  MEENAKASHI LEKHI, HON'BLE MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT

## The proposed Continuous Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Stations (CAAQMS)

- A. CAAQMS under installationin million  plus cities

1. Nagpur 2. Nasik 3. Aurangabad 4. Amritsar 5. Ludhiana 6. Howrah 7. Srinagar 8. Vijayawada 9. Ghaziabad 10. Coimbatore

- B. CAAQMS proposed in million plus cities
- C. CAAQMS proposed in 21 State Capitals including UTs
1. Kavaratti 2. Bhubaneswar 3. Shimla 4. Thiruvananthapuram
5. Gandhi Nagar 6. Panaji 7. Dehradun 8. Guwahati
9. Shillong 10. Imphal 11. Itanagar 12. Aizawl
13. Kohima 14. Gangtok 15. Agartala 16. Chandigarh
17. Puducherry 18. Port Blair 19. Silvassa 20. Daman
21. Amravati

|   1. | Vishakhapatnam   |   2. | Raipur      |   3. | Indore           |   4. | Jabalpur    |
|------|------------------|------|-------------|------|------------------|------|-------------|
|    5 | Dhanbad          |    6 | Bhopal      |    7 | Gwalior          |    8 | Ranchi      |
|    9 | Meerut           |   10 | Allahabad   |   11 | Pimpri-Chinchwad |   12 | Madurai     |
|   13 | Surat            |   14 | Vadodara    |   15 | Rajkot           |   16 | Vasai-Virar |
|   17 | Thane            |   18 | Navi Mumbai |   19 | Kalyan-Dombivali |   20 | Kota        |

D. Manual  Ambient  Air  Quality  Monitoring  Stations  under  National  Ambient  Air  Quality Monitoring Program (NAMP)

i. Sanctioned - 720 Stations

- ii. In operation - 638 stations in 271 cities covering 29 states and 5 UTs

## ANNEXURE-II

ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (c)  OF  LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 948DUE FOR REPLY ON 22/11/2016 REGARDING 'POLLUTION  MEASURING  DEVICES'  RAISED  BY  SHRIMATI  MEENAKASHI LEKHI, HON'BLE MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT

## A. Details of Payment Released to State / UT under National Air Quality Monitoring Programme (NAMP)

|   S.No . | Name of Monitoring Agency   | 2013-14 (Amount in Rs.)   | 2014-15 (Amount in Rs.)   | 2015-16 (Amount in Rs.)   | 2016-17 Till October 2016 (Amount in Rs.)   |
|----------|-----------------------------|---------------------------|---------------------------|---------------------------|---------------------------------------------|
|        1 | Andhra Pradesh              | 8450000                   | 7666250                   |                           |                                             |
|        2 | Assam                       | 8690000                   | 7842500                   |                           |                                             |
|        3 | Chandigarh                  | 1986667                   |                           |                           |                                             |
|        4 | Chattisgarh                 |                           |                           | 1526250                   |                                             |
|        5 | Gujarat                     | 3809583                   |                           | -                         |                                             |
|        6 | Goa                         | 8882500                   | 7125000                   | 7789333                   |                                             |
|        7 | Jharkhand                   |                           |                           | -                         |                                             |
|        8 | Himachal Pradesh            | 5578333                   |                           | 10128333                  |                                             |
|        9 | Karnataka                   |                           | 354167                    | 6749583                   |                                             |
|       10 | Kerala                      |                           | 6474167                   |                           |                                             |
|       11 | Maharashtra                 | 7467083                   |                           |                           | 16316919                                    |
|       12 | Meghalaya                   | 2297500                   |                           | 7845833                   |                                             |
|       13 | Madhya Pradesh              |                           |                           | -                         | 7984417                                     |
|       14 | Mizoram                     | 5931667                   | 1765000                   | 5413333                   |                                             |
|       15 | Nagaland                    | 1360000                   | 906667                    |                           | 3658667                                     |
|       16 | Orissa                      |                           | 5734583                   |                           |                                             |
|       17 | Punjab                      |                           | 7795417                   |                           |                                             |
|       18 | Puducherry                  |                           |                           |                           | 5110333                                     |
|       19 | Rajasthan                   |                           |                           | 4218750                   |                                             |
|       20 | Tamil Nadu                  | 4399166                   | 2358333                   |                           |                                             |
|       21 | Uttar Pradesh               | 9586667                   |                           | 7263333                   |                                             |
|       22 | Uttarakhand                 | 3694334                   |                           | 4085833                   |                                             |

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