Lok Sabha Question No. 4089 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-08-10
Subject: Funds for Controlling Pollution
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT,  FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: RAJESH PANDEY, NISHIKANT  DUBEY

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4089

TO BE ANSWERED ON 10.08.2018

## Funds for Controlling Pollution

4089.   SHRI RAJESH PANDEY: SHRI NISHIKANT DUBEY:

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

- (a) whether the Union Government has released funds to State Governments for controlling pollution in States;
- (b) if  so,  the  details  thereof  during  each  of  the  last  three  years  and  the  current year, State/UT-wise including Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh; and
- (c) the  details  of  the  pollution  control  related  works  carried  out  from  this  fund during the said period?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER  OF  STATE  IN  THE  MINISTRY  OF  ENVIRONMENT,  FOREST  AND CLIMATE CHANGE (DR. MAHESH SHARMA)

(a)  to  (c)  Government  is  implementing  a  number  of  schemes  and  providing  financial assistance  to  States  to  help  in  keeping  the  environment  pollution  free  which  include  the National Ambient Air Monitoring Programme (NAMP), installation of Continuous Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Stations (CAAQMS), National Water Quality Monitoring Programme  (NWMP),  Assistance  for  Abatement  of  Pollution  (AAP),  Common  Effluent Treatment Plants (CETP), National Plan for Conservation of Aquatic Eco-systems (NPCA), Financial  Assistance  for  setting  up  Treatment,  Storage,  and  Disposal  Facilities  (TSDFs), National River Conservation Plan (NRCP) and National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG). The details of funds released to States/UTs, including Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh, during the last three year and current year are annexed.

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## ANNEXURE

ANNEXURE  REFERRED  IN  REPLY  TO  THE  LOK  SABHA  UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4089 DUE FOR ANSWER ON 10.08.2018 REGARDING "FUNDS FOR  CONTROLLING  POLLUTION"  RAISED  BY  SHRI  RAJESH  PANDEY  AND SHRI NISHIKANT DUBEY, HON'BLE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT

## National Ambient Air Monitoring Programme (NAMP)

| S No.   | State/Union Territory                    | 2015-16 (amount in ₹ Crore)   | Year 2016-17 (amount in ₹ Crore)   | Year 2017-18 (amount in ₹ Crore)   |   Year 2018-19 (amount in ₹ Crore) |
|---------|------------------------------------------|-------------------------------|------------------------------------|------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
| S No.   | State/Union Territory                    | 2015-16                       | 2016-17                            | 2017-18                            |                                  0 |
| 1       | Andhra Pradesh                           | 0.00                          | 0.00                               | 2.76                               |                                  0 |
| 2       | Arunachal Pradesh                        | 0.00                          | 0.00                               | 0.41                               |                                  0 |
| 3       | Assam                                    | 0.00                          | 0.00                               | 3.59                               |                                  0 |
| 4       | Bihar                                    | 0.00                          | 0.00                               | 0.22                               |                                  0 |
| 5       | Chandigarh                               | 0.00                          | 0.41                               | 0.33                               |                                  0 |
| 6       | Chhattisgarh                             | 0.15                          | 0.00                               | 0.45                               |                                  0 |
| 7       | Dadra & Nagar Haveli PCC and Daman & Diu | 0.00                          | 0.00                               | 0.35                               |                                  0 |
| 8       | Goa                                      | 0.78                          | 0.00                               | 2.44                               |                                  0 |
| 9       | Himachal Pradesh                         | 1.01                          | 0.00                               | 2.93                               |                                  0 |
| 10      | Jammu & Kashmir                          | 0.00                          | 0.00                               | 0.45                               |                                  0 |
| 11      | Jharkhand                                | 0.00                          | 0.00                               | 1.49                               |                                  0 |
| 12      | Karnataka                                | 0.67                          | 0.00                               | 2.11                               |                                  0 |
| 13      | Kerala                                   | 0.00                          | 0.00                               | 2.23                               |                                  0 |
| 14      | Madhya Pradesh                           | 0.00                          | 0.80                               | 1.36                               |                                  0 |
| 15      | Maharashtra                              | 0.00                          | 1.63                               | 3.05                               |                                  0 |
| 16      | Meghalaya                                | 0.78                          | 0.00                               | 1.45                               |                                  0 |
| 17      | Mizoram                                  | 0.54                          | 0.43                               | 0.73                               |                                  0 |
| 18      | Nagaland                                 | 0.00                          | 0.37                               | 0.31                               |                                  0 |
| 19      | Odisha                                   | 0.00                          | 0.59                               | 1.71                               |                                  0 |
| 20      | Punjab                                   | 0.00                          | 0.00                               | 2.04                               |                                  0 |

| 21   | Puducherry    |   0.00 |   0.51 |   0.34 |   0.00 |
|------|---------------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
| 22   | Rajasthan     |   0.42 |   0    |   1.34 |      0 |
| 23   | Sikkim        |   0    |   0    |   0.61 |      0 |
| 24   | Tamil Nadu    |   0    |   0    |   1.68 |      0 |
| 25   | Telangana     |   0    |   0    |   1.8  |      0 |
| 26   | Tripura       |   0    |   0    |   0.09 |      0 |
| 27   | Uttar Pradesh |   0.73 |   0    |   3.14 |      0 |
| 28   | Uttarakhand   |   0.41 |   0    |   1.45 |      0 |
| 29   | West Bengal   |   0    |   0    |   1.94 |      0 |
| 30   | NEERI         |   1.36 |   2.23 |   2.16 |      0 |
| 31   | IIT Kanpur    |   0    |   0    |   0.8  |      0 |
|      | Total         |   6.86 |   6.96 |  45.78 |      0 |

National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) is presently monitoring in 6 cities in 5 different states/Union territories namely Delhi, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh

## For Installation of Continuous Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Stations (CAAQMS)

|   S. No. | State/Union Territory   |   2017-18 (amount in ₹ Crore) |   2018-19 (amount in ₹ Crore) |
|----------|-------------------------|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|
|        1 | Maharashtra             |                           1.5 |                             0 |
|        2 | Andhra Pradesh          |                           0.5 |                             0 |
|        3 | Gujarat                 |                           0.5 |                             0 |
|        4 | Assam                   |                           0.9 |                             0 |
|        5 | Sikkim                  |                           0.9 |                             0 |
|        6 | Manipur                 |                           0.9 |                             0 |
|        7 | Mizoram                 |                           0.9 |                             0 |
|        8 | Nagaland                |                           0.9 |                             0 |
|        9 | Tripura                 |                           0.9 |                             0 |
|       10 | Meghalaya               |                           0.9 |                             0 |

| 11.   | Chandigarh    |   1.00 |   0.00 |
|-------|---------------|--------|--------|
| 12.   | Puducherry    |    1   |   0    |
| 13.   | Uttar Pradesh |    0.5 |  13.12 |
| 14.   | Punjab        |    0.5 |   0    |
| Total | Total         |   11.8 |  13.12 |

No funds were released during the year 2015-16 and 2016-17

## National Water Quality Monitoring Programme (NWMP)

|   S No . | State/Union Territory   |   2015-16 (amount in ₹ Crore) |   Year 2016-17 (amount in ₹ Crore) |   Year 2017-18 (amount in ₹ Crore) |
|----------|-------------------------|-------------------------------|------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
|        1 | Andhra Pradesh          |                          0.39 |                                  0 |                               0.43 |
|        2 | Arunachal Pradesh       |                          0    |                                  0 |                               0.01 |
|        3 | Assam                   |                          0.24 |                                  0 |                               1.09 |
|        4 | Bihar                   |                          0.28 |                                  0 |                               0.38 |
|        5 | Chhattisgarh            |                          0.13 |                                  0 |                               0.27 |
|        6 | Goa                     |                          0.01 |                                  0 |                               0.73 |
|        7 | Gujarat                 |                          0.15 |                                  0 |                               0.82 |
|        8 | Haryana                 |                          0.01 |                                  0 |                               0.09 |
|        9 | Himachal Pradesh        |                          0.75 |                                  0 |                               1.27 |
|       10 | Jammu and Kashmir       |                          0    |                                  0 |                               0.51 |
|       11 | Jharkhand               |                          0.04 |                                  0 |                               0.27 |
|       12 | Karnataka               |                          0.3  |                                  0 |                               1.5  |
|       13 | Kerala                  |                          0.66 |                                  0 |                               1.23 |
|       14 | Madhya Pradesh          |                          0.22 |                                  0 |                               1.24 |
|       15 | Maharashtra             |                          0.83 |                                  0 |                               2.34 |
|       16 | Manipur                 |                          0    |                                  0 |                               0.07 |
|       17 | Meghalaya               |                          0.36 |                                  0 |                               0.64 |
|       18 | Mizoram                 |                          0.25 |                                  0 |                               0.57 |
|       19 | Nagaland                |                          0.01 |                                  0 |                               0.12 |
|       20 | Odisha                  |                          0.52 |                                  0 |                               1.14 |
|       21 | Punjab                  |                          0.13 |                                  0 |                               0.56 |
|       22 | Rajasthan               |                          0.24 |                                  0 |                               0.42 |
|       23 | Sikkim                  |                          0    |                                  0 |                               0.1  |
|       24 | Tamil Nadu              |                          0.28 |                                  0 |                               0.53 |
|       25 | Telangana               |                          0    |                                  0 |                               0.8  |
|       26 | Tripura                 |                          0.02 |                                  0 |                               0.42 |
|       27 | Uttar Pradesh           |                          0.21 |                                  0 |                               0.58 |

| 28   | Uttarakhand                        |   0.07 |   0.00 |   0.18 |
|------|------------------------------------|--------|--------|--------|
| 29   | West Bengal                        |   0.71 |      0 |   0.6  |
| 30   | Chandigarh                         |   0.01 |      0 |   0.08 |
| 31   | Lakshadweep                        |   0.05 |      0 |   0.07 |
| 32   | Puducherry                         |   0.02 |      0 |   0.08 |
| 33   | Daman & Diu and Dadra Nagar Haveli |   0    |      0 |   0.17 |
|      | TOTAL :-                           |   6.89 |      0 |  19.3  |

No funds have been released during the year 2018-19

## Assistance of Abatement of Pollution and Common Effluent Treatment Plant Scheme

| S. No.   | Scheme / Activity                    | State      | Funds released (amount in ₹ Crore)   | Funds released (amount in ₹ Crore)   | Funds released (amount in ₹ Crore)   | Funds released (amount in ₹ Crore)   |
|----------|--------------------------------------|------------|--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
| S. No.   | Scheme / Activity                    | State      | 2015-16                              | 2016-17                              | 2017-18                              | 2018-19                              |
| 1.       | Assistance of Abatement of Pollution | Chandigarh | 0.44                                 | 0.95                                 | 0.00                                 | 0.00                                 |
| 2.       | Assistance of Abatement of Pollution | Goa        | 0.00                                 | 0.00                                 | 0.50                                 | 0.00                                 |
| 3.       | Assistance of Abatement of Pollution | Manipur    | 0.48                                 | 0.40                                 | 0.42                                 | 0.00                                 |
| 4.       | Assistance of Abatement of Pollution | Meghalaya  | 0.00                                 | 0.37                                 | 0.00                                 | 0.00                                 |
| 5.       | Assistance of Abatement of Pollution | Mizoram    | 0.40                                 | 0.42                                 | 0.50                                 | 0.00                                 |
| 6.       | Assistance of Abatement of Pollution | Tripura    | 0.20                                 | 0.49                                 | 0.00                                 | 0.00                                 |

|   7. | Common Effluent Treatment Plant Scheme   | Andhra Pradesh   |   0.00 |   0.20 |   0.00 |   0.00 |
|------|------------------------------------------|------------------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
|    8 | Common Effluent Treatment Plant Scheme   | Punjab           |   0    |    1.5 |    3.5 |   2.88 |
|    9 | Common Effluent Treatment Plant Scheme   | Gujarat          |  11.06 |    0   |    0   |   0    |

National Plan for Conservation of Aquatic Eco-systems (NPCA)

|   S. No. | State            |   2015- 16(amount in ₹ Crore) |   2016-17 (amount in ₹ Crore) |   2017-18 (amount in ₹ Crore) |   2018- 19(amount in ₹ Crore) |
|----------|------------------|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|
|        1 | Bihar            |                          0    |                          0    |                          3.61 |                          0    |
|        2 | Gujarat          |                          1.59 |                          0    |                          0    |                          0    |
|        3 | Haryana          |                          0.29 |                          0.65 |                          0.13 |                          1.43 |
|        4 | Himachal Pradesh |                          0    |                          0.87 |                          0.99 |                          0    |
|        5 | Jammu & Kashmir  |                         15    |                          0    |                         23.82 |                          0    |
|        6 | Karnataka        |                          0    |                          2.28 |                          0    |                          0    |
|        7 | Kerala           |                          0    |                          0    |                          2.07 |                          0    |
|        8 | Madhya Pradesh   |                          4.9  |                         12    |                          0.92 |                          0    |
|        9 | Manipur          |                          0.47 |                          1.03 |                          0.93 |                          0    |
|       10 | Mizoram          |                          1.08 |                          0.59 |                          0.98 |                          1.22 |
|       11 | Maharashtra      |                          0    |                          0    |                          8.74 |                          1.26 |

| 12.   | Nagaland      |   0.00 |   0.42 |   0.00 |   0.00 |
|-------|---------------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
| 13.   | Odisha        |   0    |   0.4  |   6.18 |   0    |
| 14.   | Puducherry    |   0.42 |   0.1  |   0.3  |   0    |
| 15.   | Punjab        |   1.52 |   0    |   0    |   0    |
| 16.   | Rajasthan     |  10.95 |  13.56 |   1.54 |   0    |
| 17.   | Sikkim        |   0.78 |   0.71 |   1.84 |   0    |
| 18.   | Tamil Nadu    |   0    |   0    |   1.06 |   0.25 |
| 19.   | Uttar Pradesh |   1.24 |  26.17 |   2.5  |   0    |
| 20.   | West Bengal   |   0.92 |   1.01 |   0    |   0    |
|       | Total         |  39.14 |  59.8  |  55.62 |   4.15 |

## Financial Assistance for setting up Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facilities (TSDFs)

|   S. No. | State            |   2015- 16(amount in ₹ Crore) |   2016-17 (amount in ₹ Crore) |   2017-18 (amount in ₹ Crore) |   2018- 19(amount in ₹ Crore) |
|----------|------------------|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|
|        1 | Andhra Pradesh   |                          0    |                         16.2  |                         24    |                             0 |
|        2 | Telangana        |                          0    |                          6    |                          2.28 |                             0 |
|        3 | Himachal Pradesh |                          0.26 |                          1.28 |                          0    |                             0 |
|        4 | Uttar Pradesh    |                          0.5  |                          0.47 |                          0    |                             0 |
|        5 | West Bengal      |                          9.82 |                          4.68 |                         35.88 |                             0 |

## National River Conservation Plan (NRCP)

|   Sl. No. | State       |   2015- 16(amount in ₹ Crore) |   2016- 17(amount in ₹ Crore) |   2017-18 (amount in ₹ Crore) |   2018- 19(amount in ₹ Crore) |
|-----------|-------------|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|
|         1 | Gujarat     |                         24.12 |                          71.4 |                         62    |                             0 |
|         2 | Maharashtra |                          4.99 |                          21   |                         31.75 |                             0 |
|         3 | Punjab      |                         17.61 |                           0   |                         50    |                             0 |

| 4     | Goa      |   0.00 |   0.00 |   3.00 |   0.00 |
|-------|----------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
| 5     | Kerala   |   5    |    0   |   0    |      0 |
| 6     | Odisha   |   0    |    0   |   1.99 |      0 |
| 7     | Sikkim   |   1    |    5   |  18.01 |     15 |
| 8     | Nagaland |  10    |    0   |   5    |      5 |
| Total | Total    |  62.72 |   97.4 | 171.75 |     20 |

National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG)

|   Sl. No. | State       |   2015- 16(amount in ₹ Crore) |   2016- 17(amount in ₹ Crore) |   2017-18 (amount in ₹ Crore) |   2018- 19(amount in ₹ Crore) |
|-----------|-------------|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|
|         1 | Uttarakhand |                         30.26 |                         30.66 |                        183.61 |                         17.08 |
|         2 | Uttarakhand |                        147.58 |                        587.17 |                        473.64 |                         98.84 |
|         3 | Bihar       |                        120.23 |                         82.03 |                        356.27 |                         79.44 |
|         4 | Jharkhand   |                         27.83 |                         46.18 |                          7.57 |                          0.5  |
|         5 | West Bengal |                        185.79 |                        114.25 |                        244.01 |                         80.51 |
|         6 | Haryana     |                         30    |                         52.73 |                          6.88 |                          0    |
|         7 | Delhi       |                          4.96 |                          2.17 |                         81.57 |                         60.69 |

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