Lok Sabha Question No. 3215 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-12-06
Subject: National Clean Air Programme
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT,  FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: Pashupati Nath Singh, Rama Devi

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

## LOK SABHA UN-STARRED QUESTION N0. 3215

TO BE ANSWERED ON 06.12.2019

## National Clean Air Programme

## 3215.   SHRI PASHUPATI NATH SINGH: SHRIMATI RAMA DEVI:

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

- (a) whether on the basis of WHO report 2014-18, 102 cities have been identified which failed  to  meet  prescribed  standards  to  formulate  and  implement  city  specific  action plan under the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP);
- (b) if so, the details thereof indicating the name of such cities; and
- (c) the corrective steps taken by the Government so far in this regard?

## ANSWER

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

- (a) to  (c)  Ministry  of  Environment,  Forest  and  Climate  Change  (MoEF&CC)  has launched  National  Clean  Air  Programme  (NCAP)  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 have been identified based  on  ambient  air  quality  data  for  the  period  2011  -  2015  and  WHO  report 2014/2018.  List  of  cities  enclosed  at Annexure  -I. City  specific  action  plans  have been approved for abatement of air pollution, causedby various sources which interalia includes vehicular emissions, industrial emission, dust, garbage dumping, burning of  Municipal  waste/industrial  waste  etc.  For  the  cities  with  million  plus  population and  PM10>90µg/m³,  MoEF&CC  has  funding  ₹10  Crores  in  the  current  year  for various components  that inter-alia includes 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 sprinkler.For the cities with population, less than 5 lakhs, funds of ₹10 lakhs per city is  allocated and for cities with a population of 5 to10 lakhs,₹20 lakhs per city have been allocated.

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Annexure I Non-Attainment cities with respect to Ambient Air Quality India (2011-2015)

| State No   | Sl.   | State/UT         |   Cities Sl. No | Cities         |
|------------|-------|------------------|-----------------|----------------|
| 1          |       | Andhra Pradesh   |               1 | Guntur         |
|            |       |                  |               2 | Kurnool        |
|            |       |                  |               3 | Nellore        |
|            |       |                  |               4 | Vijayawada     |
|            |       |                  |               5 | Vishakhapatnam |
| 2          |       | Assam            |               6 | Guwahati       |
|            |       |                  |               7 | Nagaon         |
|            |       |                  |               8 | Nalbari        |
|            |       |                  |               9 | Sibsagar       |
|            |       |                  |              10 | Silchar        |
| 3          |       | Chandigarh       |              11 | Chandigarh     |
| 4          |       | Chhattisgarh     |              12 | Bhilai         |
|            |       |                  |              13 | Korba          |
| 5          |       | Delhi            |              14 | Delhi          |
| 6          |       | Gujarat          |              15 | Surat          |
| 7          |       | Himachal Pradesh |              16 | Baddi          |
|            |       |                  |              17 | Damtal         |
|            |       |                  |              18 | Kala Amb       |
|            |       |                  |              19 | Nalagarh       |
|            |       |                  |              20 | Paonta Sahib   |
|            |       |                  |              21 | Parwanoo       |
|            |       |                  |              22 | Sunder Nagar   |
| 8          |       | Jammu &Kashmir   |              23 | Jammu          |
| 9          |       | Jharkhand        |              24 | Dhanbad        |
| 10         |       | Karnataka        |              25 | Bangalore      |
|            |       |                  |              26 | Devanagere     |
|            |       |                  |              27 | Gulburga       |
|            |       |                  |              28 | Hubli-Dharwad  |
| 11         |       | Madhya Pradesh   |              29 | Bhopal         |
|            |       |                  |              30 | Dewas          |
|            |       |                  |              31 | Indore         |
|            |       |                  |              32 | Sagar          |
|            |       |                  |              33 | Ujjain         |
| 12         |       | Maharashtra      |              34 | Akola          |
|            |       |                  |              35 | Amravati       |
|            |       |                  |              36 | Aurangabad     |
|            |       |                  |              37 | Badlapur       |
|            |       |                  |              38 | Chandrapur     |
|            |       |                  |              39 | Jalgaon        |
|            |       |                  |              40 | Jalna          |
|            |       |                  |              41 | Kolhapur       |
|            |       |                  |              42 | Latur          |
|            |       |                  |              43 | Mumbai         |
|            |       |                  |              44 | Nagpur         |

|    |               |   45 | Nashik              |
|----|---------------|------|---------------------|
|    |               |   46 | Navi Mumbai         |
|    |               |   47 | Pune                |
|    |               |   48 | Sangli              |
|    |               |   49 | Solapur             |
|    |               |   50 | Ulhasnagar          |
| 13 | Meghalaya     |   51 | Byrnihat            |
| 14 | Nagaland      |   52 | Dimapur             |
|    |               |   53 | Kohima              |
| 15 | Orissa        |   54 | Angul               |
|    |               |   55 | Balasore            |
|    |               |   56 | Bhubaneswar         |
|    |               |   57 | Cuttack             |
|    |               |   58 | Rourkela            |
|    |               |   59 | Talcher             |
| 16 | Punjab        |   60 | Dera Bassi          |
|    |               |   61 | Gobindgarh          |
|    |               |   62 | Jalandhar           |
|    |               |   63 | Khanna              |
|    |               |   64 | Ludhiana            |
|    |               |   65 | Naya Nangal         |
|    |               |   66 | Pathankot/Dera Baba |
|    |               |   67 | Patiala             |
| 17 | Rajasthan     |   68 | Alwar               |
|    |               |   69 | Jaipur              |
|    |               |   70 | Jodhpur             |
|    |               |   71 | Kota                |
|    |               |   72 | Udaipur             |
| 18 | Tamilnadu     |   73 | Tuticorin           |
| 19 | Telangana     |   74 | Hyderabad           |
|    |               |   75 | Nalgonda            |
|    |               |   76 | Patencheru          |
| 20 | Uttar Pradesh |   77 | Agra                |
|    |               |   78 | Allahabad           |
|    |               |   79 | Anpara              |
|    |               |   80 | Bareily             |
|    |               |   81 | Firozabad           |
|    |               |   82 | Gajraula            |
|    |               |   83 | Ghaziabad           |
|    |               |   84 | Jhansi              |
|    |               |   85 | Kanpur              |
|    |               |   86 | Khurja              |
|    |               |   87 | Lucknow             |
|    |               |   88 | Moradabad           |
|    |               |   89 | Noida               |
|    |               |   90 | Raebareli           |
| 21 | Uttarakhand   |   92 | Kashipur            |

|    |             |   93 | Rishikesh   |
|----|-------------|------|-------------|
| 22 | West Bengal |   94 | Kolkata     |

## 08 cities identified by WHO report 2014/2018

| State No   | Sl.   | State/UT       | Cities Sl. No   | Cities     |
|------------|-------|----------------|-----------------|------------|
| 1          |       | Bihar          | 1 2             | Patna Gaya |
| 2          |       | Jammu &Kashmir | 4               | Srinagar   |
| 3          |       | Madhya Pradesh | 5               | Gwalior    |
| 4          |       | Gujarat        | 6               | Ahmedabad  |
| 5          |       |                | 7               | Raipur     |
|            |       | Chhattisgarh   |                 |            |
| 6          |       | Punjab         | 8               | Amritsar   |