Lok Sabha Question No. 2013 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-03-14
Subject: Ozone Pollution
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT,  FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: GAURAV GOGOI, JYOTIRADITYA MADHAVRAO SCINDIA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.2013

TO BE ANSWERED ON 14.03.2017

## Ozone Pollution

## 2013.   SHRI GAURAV GOGOI: SHRI JYOTIRADITYA M. SCINDIA:

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

- (a)   whether  the  attention  of  the  Government  has  been  drawn  towards  the  news-item captioned 'India tops list of countries in Ozone pollution deaths';
- (b)  if  so,  whether  according  to  the  State  of  Global  Air,  2017  report  released  recently,  as many as 2.54 lakh deaths occurred in 2015 on account of exposure to ozone and India accounts for the highest number of premature deaths due to ozone pollution;
- (c) if so, the reaction of the Government on such international report; and
- (d)  the steps taken by the Government to provide protection to its citizens from the deadly ozone pollution across the country?

## ANSWER

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

(SHRI ANIL MADHAV DAVE)

(a) to (c) Government is aware of the news report regarding likely impact of ozone on human health. The data related to ozone, collected by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), for the year 2016 is annexed. The data collected shows that ozone levels have not exceeded the  permissible  level  of  100  µg/m 3 at  any  of  the  locations  during  the  year  2016.  Since  the concentration of ozone is less than the permissible limits, the reports published need to be correlated with the data and scrutinized before arriving at any conclusion.

(d) A number of measures have been taken to mitigate air pollution including pollution from ozone  which  includes,  besides  monitoring  of  pollution  levels,  issue  of  comprehensive directions  to  all  the  State  Governments  and  Union  Territories  to  regulate  emissions  as  per standards notified by the Government.

## ANNEXURE

ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARA (a) to (c) OF THE LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2013 DUE FOR REPLY ON 14.03.2017 REGARDING OZONE POLLUTION BY SHRI GAURAV GOGOI: SHRI JYOTIRADITYA M. SCINDIA, HON'BLE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT

## Concentration of Ozone monitored by CPCB for the year 2016

| S. No.   | States      | Cities        | Stations                      | Measuring Ozone and their Annual Concentration in µg/m 3   |
|----------|-------------|---------------|-------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------|
| 1.       | Andhra      | Visakhapatnam | GVMC Ram Nagar                | 44.23                                                      |
|          | Pradesh     | Tirupati      | Tirumala                      | 16.48                                                      |
| 2.       | Bihar       | Patna         | IGSC Planetarium Complex      | 35.73                                                      |
|          |             | Muzaffarpur   | Muzaffarpur Collectorate      | 25.05                                                      |
|          |             |               | Shadipur                      | 40.32                                                      |
|          |             |               | NSIT Dwarka                   | 33.79                                                      |
| 3.       | Delhi       | Delhi         | MandirMarg                    | 32.96                                                      |
|          |             |               | AnandVihar                    | 26.01                                                      |
|          |             |               | R. K. Puram                   | 49.26                                                      |
|          |             |               | Punjabi Bagh                  | 51.79                                                      |
| 4.       | Gujarat     | Ahmedabad     | Maninagar                     | 55.89                                                      |
| 5.       | Haryana     | Faridabad     | Sector16A Faridabad           | 23.46                                                      |
|          |             | Panchkula     | Sector 6 Panchkula            | 31.23                                                      |
|          |             | Gurgaon       | VikasSadan Gurgaon            | 28.49                                                      |
|          |             | Rohtak        | MD University, Rohtak         | 29.88                                                      |
| 6.       | Karnataka   | Bengaluru     | BTM Layout                    | 29.88                                                      |
|          |             |               | BWSSB Kadabesanahalli         | 27.38                                                      |
| 7.       | Maharashtr  | Aurangabad    | More Chowk, Waluj             | 61.82                                                      |
|          | a           | Mumbai        | Bandra                        | 20.86                                                      |
|          |             | Nagpur        | Opp. GPO Civil Lines , Nagpur | 55.83                                                      |
|          |             | Nashik        | KTHM College                  | 50.75                                                      |
|          |             | Pune          | Karve Road Pune               | 17.51                                                      |
|          |             | Thane         | PimpleshwarMandir,            |                                                            |
|          |             |               | Dombivali                     | 60.66                                                      |
|          |             | Chandrapur    | Chandrapur                    | 10.40                                                      |
|          |             | Solapur       | MIDC Khutala                  | 40.53                                                      |
|          |             |               | Solapur                       | 47.77                                                      |
| 8.       | Rajasthan   | Jodhpur       | Collectorate Jodhpur          | 26.61                                                      |
| 9.       | Tamil Naidu | Chennai       | Alandur Bus Depot             | 32.78                                                      |
|          |             |               | IIT                           | 29.52                                                      |
| 10.      | Telangana   |               | Sanathnagar                   | 70.88                                                      |
|          |             | Hyderabad     | Zoo Park, Bahadurpura West    | 30.52                                                      |
|          |             |               | IDA, Pashamylaram             | 44.34                                                      |
| 11.      | Uttar       | Agra          | Sanjay Palace                 | 36.16                                                      |
|          | Pradesh     | Kanpur        | Nehru Nagar                   | 15.53                                                      |
|          |             |               | Lalbagh, West Lucknow         | 31.53                                                      |
|          |             | Lucknow       | Central School                | 37.70                                                      |
|          |             | Varanasi      | Ardhali Bazar                 | 24.37                                                      |
| 12.      | West        | Kolkata       | Victoria                      | 8.79                                                       |
|          | Bengal      |               | RBU                           | 19.78                                                      |
|          |             | Howrah        | Howrah                        | 33.79                                                      |
|          |             | Haldia        | Haldia                        | 47.72                                                      |