Lok Sabha Question No. 1847 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-11-29
Subject: Air Quality Monitoring Stations
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT,  FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: Gaddam Ranjith Reddy

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE

## LOK SABHA

## UN-STARRED QUESTION N0. 1847 TO BE ANSWERED ON 29.11.2019

## Air Quality Monitoring Stations

## 1847. DR. G. RANJITH REDDY:

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

- (a) whether the Government is aware that there  are  only  eleven  air  quality  monitoring stations in Telangana when the State has more than thirty districts and if so, the details thereof;
- (b) whether there is only one operating station in Patancheruvu in Ranga Reddy district and if so, the details thereof; and
- (c) the  steps  taken  by  the  Government  to  set  up  more  and  more  stations  to  assess pollution and air quality in Telangana?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER  OF  STATE  IN  THE  MINISTRY  OF  ENVIRONMENT,  FOREST  AND CLIMATE CHANGE (SHRI BABUL SUPRIYO)

- (a) &  (b)  There  are  25  manual  and  6  real  time  Continuous  Ambient  Air  Quality Monitoring  Stations (CAAQMS)  in  Telangana.  The  details  of  the  stations  in Telangana under NAMP and CAAQMS are at Annexure- I .

Patencheru  has  01  manual  ambient  air  quality  monitoring  station  located  at Police  Station,  Medak,  Ramachandrapuram  and  01  real  time  station  located  at International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-arid Tropics (ICRISAT).

- (c) Ministry  of  Environment,  Forest  and  Climate  Change  (MoEF&CC)  has  launched National  Clean  Air  Programme  (NCAP)  under  the  Central  Sector  'Control  of Pollution' Scheme as a long-term, time-bound, national level strategy to tackle the air pollution problem across the country in a comprehensive manner. Under NCAP, 102 non-attainment  cities including cities  viz  Hyderabad,  Nalgonda,  Patencheru  in Telangana have been identified based on ambient air quality data for the period 2011 - 2015 and WHO report 2014/2018. Out of 102 non-attainment cities identified under NCAP, for  the  cities  with  million  plus  population  and  PM10>90µg/m³,  Ministry  of Environment, Forest & Climate Change is funding ₹10 Crores in the current year for 28 such priority cities including Hyderabad in Telangana for various components that inter alia include Installation and commissioning of CAAQMS, Creating green buffer zone along the  roads,  Mechanical  street  sweeper,  Mobile  Enforcement  Unit,  Public awareness  and  capacity  building  activities,  Water  sprinklerfor  the  remaining  nonattainment cities, funding of ₹10 lakhs per city for cities with population less than 5 lakhs including cities vizPatencheru and Nalgonda in Telangana and ₹ 20 lakhs per city, for cities with a population of 5 to10 lakhs have been allocated.

## Annexure- I

## Ambient air quality monitoring stations (AAQMS) in Telangana under NAMP (Manual)

| S. No.   | City/Town   | No. of AAQMS   |
|----------|-------------|----------------|
| 1.       | Adilabad    | 1              |
| 2.       | Hyderabad   | 10             |
| 3.       | Karimnagar  | 1              |
| 4.       | Khammam     | 2              |
| 5.       | Kothur      | 1              |
| 6.       | Nalgonda    | 2              |
| 7.       | Nizamabad   | 1              |
| 8.       | Patencheru  | 1              |
| 9.       | Ramagundum  | 1              |
| 10.      | Sangareddy  | 3              |
| 11.      | Warangal    | 2              |
| Total    | 11 cities   | 25 stations    |

## Continuous Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Stations (CAAQMS-real time stations) in Telangana

| City /Town   | Sl.No.   | Station Name             |
|--------------|----------|--------------------------|
| Hyderabad    | 1.       | Bollaram Industrial Area |
| Hyderabad    | 2.       | Central University       |
| Hyderabad    | 3.       | IDA Pashamylaram         |
| Hyderabad    | 4.       | Sanathnagar              |
| Hyderabad    | 5.       | Zoo Park                 |
| Patancheru   | 6.       | ICRISAT Patancheru       |
|              |          | 06 stations              |