Lok Sabha Question No. 1025 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-11-22
Subject: Pollution Control Projects
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT,  FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: VEENA DEVI

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.1025

TO BE ANSWERED ON 22.11.2016

## Pollution Control Projects

## 1025. SHRIMATI VEENA DEVI:

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

- (a) whether various pollution control projects are being implemented in the States namely Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan in the country;
- (b) if so, the details of the said projects along with their processing capacity;
- (c) whether the processing capacity of the said projects is sufficient for the treatment of solid waste and sewage in the said States; and
- (d) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

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

(SHRI ANIL MADHAV DAVE)

- (a) & (b) Various  pollution  control  projects  are  being  implemented  in  the  country including in the states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan under the Schemes for Assistance for Abatement of Pollution, Common Effluent Treatment Plant and National Plan  for  Conservation  of  Aquatic  Eco-system  (NPCA).  The  details  of  projects  being implemented in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh (UP), Haryana and Rajasthan States are as follows:
1. Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) Unit, V, Mandia Road, Pali, Rajasthan: 12 MLD;
2. Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) Unit, VI, Punyata Road, Pali, Rajasthan: 12 MLD;
3. Pollution Prevention and Conservation of Ramgarh Tal Lake in Gorakhpur in UP: 30 MLD;
4. Prevention of Pollution and Revival of Mansi Ganga Lake at Goverdhan, Mathura, UP: 2.76 MLD;
5. Conservation and Management of Mansagar Lake at Jaipur, Rajasthan: 27 MLD;
6. Insitu Bioremediation of Bakarganj Nallah in Patna, Bihar;
7. Reimbursement of expenses for monitoring of ambient air and water quality under National Air Quality Monitoring Programme & National Water Quality Monitoring Programme to Bihar, UP, Haryana and Rajasthan;
8. Assessment of pollution load and preparing actions plan for polluted river stretches in UP, and Rajasthan;
9. Installation of noise monitoring stations in Lucknow, UP on Cost sharing basis; and 10. Installation of Continuous Ambient Air Quality Monitoring on cost sharing basis in U.P., Rajasthan and Bihar.

(c)  &  (d)  As  per assessment made by CPCB in 2015, the sewage generation from urban areas  is  estimated  as  61,948  Million  Litres  Per  Day  (MLD),  whereas  the  total  sewage treatment capacity available in the country is only 23,277 MLD. The Municipal solid waste generation  in  the  country  is  1,43,449  Ton  Per  Day  (TPD),  of  which  1,17,644  TPD  is collected and  32,871  TPD  is  treated  including  Bihar,  Uttar  Pradesh,  Haryana  and Rajasthan.

The Government of India has also launched Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) on 2 nd October, 2014 with the target to make the country clean by 2 nd October, 2019. Financial assistance  is  also  being  provided  under  SBM  to  the  states  for  Municipal  Solid  Waste Management.

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