Lok Sabha Question No. 351 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-07-19
Subject: Availability of Bio-Gas in Remote/ Rural Areas
Ministry: NEW AND RENEWABLE ENERGY
Asked by: RAMCHARAN BOHARA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF NEW AND RENEWABLE ENERGY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO-351

TO BE ANSWERED ON-19.07.2018

## AVAILABILITY OF BIO-GAS IN REMOTE/RURAL AREAS

## 351. SHRI RAM CHARAN BOHRA:

Will the Minister of NEW AND RENEWABLE ENERGY be pleased to state:-

- (a) whether the Government has any scheme to make available bio-gas in remote/rural areas of the country for cooking purposes;
- (b) if so, the details thereof;
- (c) the number of villages where bio-gas plants have been set-up during the last three years and the current year, State/ UT-wise; and

(d) the steps taken by the Government to encourage the use of bio-gas cooking stove in the country ?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR NEW & RENEWABLE ENERGY AND POWER (I/C) (SHRI R.K. SINGH)

(a)  &  (b)  The  Ministry  of  New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) is implementing the New National Biogas and Organic Manure Programme (NNBOMP), a Central Sector Scheme, for setting up of small Biogas plants in the size range of 1 to 25 cubic metre in remote, rural and semi-urban areas of the country based on cattle dung and other mixed bio degradable wastes including  human  waste  by  linking  toilets  to  biogas  plants.    The  scheme  aims  to  provide biogas as clean cooking fuel and organic bio-manure for sustaining soil health and increased crop yield.

A target of setting up of one lakh small biogas  plants has been  fixed for the current  year, 2018-19 under the NNBOMP.   The State/UT-wise details of the targets fixed for the current year are given in Annexure-I.

(c):  State/UT-wise  total  numbers  of  biogas  plants  installed  and  the  number  of  villages covered under the erstwhile National Biogas and  Manure  Management  Programme (NBMMP)  implemented  during  the  last  three  years,  2015-16  to  2017-18  are  given  in Annexure-II. The targets for the current year under the New National Biogas and Organic Manure Programme (NNBOMP) have been communicated to States/UTs on 30.05.2018.

(d) In order to promote and encourage the use of biogas as a clean cooking fuel, the previous scheme NBMMP has been modified and redesigned as New National Biogas and Organic Manure  Programme  (NNBOMP).    Under  this  programme,  the  size  range  of  family  type biogas plants has been enhanced up to 25 cubic metre capacity to cover untapped potential in the rural and semi-urban areas. In addition, the Central Financial Assistance (CFA) has also been enhanced under the NNBOMP, which varies from a minimum of Rs.7500/- per plant for 1 cubic metre size Biogas Plants to Rs.35,000/- per biogas plant  in the small biogas plant size range of 20-25 cubic metre  for the beneficiaries of NER States including Sikkim and SC & ST Categories of those areas.

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ANNEXURE-I  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  THE  PART  (b)  OF  THE  LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO 351 TO BE ANSWERED ON 19.07.2018 ON 'AVAILABILITY OF BIO-GAS IN REMOTE/RURAL AREAS'.

State-wise  and  State  Rural  Development  Department-wise  including  KVIC  Physical Targets allocated for setting up of small biogas plants under NNBOMP during the year 2018-19

| Sl. No   | Name of the State Rural Development Departments (SRDDs) &KVIC            | Target Numbers of biogas plants   | Target Numbers of biogas plants   | Target Numbers of biogas plants   | Total Nos. of Biogas Plants   |
|----------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|-------------------------------|
| Sl. No   | Name of the State Rural Development Departments (SRDDs) &KVIC            | General                           | S.C.                              | S.T.                              | Total Nos. of Biogas Plants   |
| 1        | Rural Development Department, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh                    | 2500 (T-100)                      | 1500 (T-30)                       | 1000 (T-30)                       | 5000 (T-160)                  |
| 2        | Rural Development Department, Govt. of Arunachal Pradesh                 | 100                               | -                                 | 300 (T-30)                        | 400 (T-30)                    |
| 3        | Panchayat & Rural Development Department, Govt. of Assam                 | 5000 (T-140)                      | 1000(T-30)                        | 1500 (T-30)                       | 7500 (T-200)                  |
| 4        | Panchayati Raj Department, Govt. of Bihar                                | 3000 (T-300)                      | 1500(T-100)                       | -                                 | 4500 (T-400)                  |
| 5        | Panchayat & Rural Development Department, Govt. of Chhattisgarh          | 2000 (T-300)                      | 1000                              | 1000(T- 100)                      | 4000 (T-400)                  |
| 6        | Panchayati Raj Department, Goa                                           | 200                               | 100                               | -                                 | 300                           |
| 7        | Panchayat, Rural Housing and Rural Development, Deptt. Govt. of Gujarat  | 1000 (T-35)                       | 600 (T-10)                        | 1000 (T-80)                       | 2600 (T-125)                  |
| 8        | Rural Development Department, Govt. of Haryana                           | 1000 (T-100)                      | 700(T-80)                         | -                                 | 1700 (T-180)                  |
| 9        | Rural Development & Panchayati Raj Department, Govt. of Himachal Pradesh | 500 (T-20)                        | 200 (T-5)                         | 200                               | 900 (T-25)                    |
| 10       | Rural Development & Panchayati Raj, Govt. of Jammu and Kashmir           | 500                               | 200                               | 200                               | 900                           |
| 11       | Rural Development Department, Govt. of Jharkhand                         | 1000(T-50)                        | 500(T-50)                         | 1000                              | 2500 (T-100)                  |
| 12       | Panchayati Raj & Rural Development Department, Govt. of Karnataka        | 7000 (T- 1000)                    | 1500 (T-100)                      | 400 (T-100)                       | 8900 (T-1200)                 |
| 13       | Rural Development Govt. of Kerala                                        | 2500 (T-180)                      | 900 (T-100)                       | -                                 | 3400 (T-280)                  |
| 14       | Panchayat &Rural Development, Madhya Pradesh                             | 4000 (T- 1500)                    | 1000 (T-300)                      | 2000 (T- 300)                     | 7000 (T-2100)                 |
| 15       | Rural Development And Panchayati Raj Department, Govt. of Maharashtra    | 7000 (T- 4000)                    | 1500 (T-200)                      | 1000 (T- 200)                     | 9500 (T-4400)                 |
| 16       | Rural Development & Panchayati Raj Department, Govt. of Manipur          | 100                               | -                                 | 300                               | 400                           |
| 17       | Community & Rural Development Department, Govt. of Meghalaya             | 100                               | -                                 | 400                               | 500                           |
| 18       | Rural Development Department, Govt. of Mizoram                           | 100                               | -                                 | 400                               | 500                           |
| 19       | Rural Development Deptt., Govt. of Nagaland                              | 100                               | -                                 | 300                               | 400                           |
| 20       | Rural Development Deptt., Govt. of Odisha                                | 2000 (T-100)                      | 1500 (T-30)                       | 1000 (T-30)                       | 4500 (T-160)                  |
| 21       | Deptt. of Rural Development &                                            | 3000 (T-800)                      | 2000 (T-100)                      | -                                 | 5000 (T-900)                  |

|    | Panchayat, Govt. of Punjab                                                       |                         |              |               |              |
|----|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------|--------------|---------------|--------------|
| 22 | Rural Management & Development Department, Govt. of Sikkim                       | 100                     | -            | 200           | 300          |
| 23 | Panchayat Raj and Rural Development, Govt. of Telangana                          | 1500 (T-200)            | 500          | 500           | 2500 (T-200) |
| 24 | Rural Development, Govt. of Tripura                                              | 100                     | 200          | 200           | 500          |
| 25 | Deptt. of Rural Development, Govt. of Uttar Pradesh                              | 1500 (T-100)            | 2000         | 50            | 3550 (T-100) |
| 26 | Department of Rural Development Pauri Garhwal, Govt. of Uttarakhand              | 1000 (T-30)             | 1000 (T-20)  | 200           | 2200(T-50)   |
| 27 | Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department, Govt. of Rajasthan               | 1200 (T-100)            | 1500 (T-50)  | 1000 (T-50)   | 3700 (T-200) |
| 28 | Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department, Govt. of Tamil Nadu              | 600 (T-50)              | 2000 (T-50)  | 500           | 3100 (T-100) |
| 29 | Rural Development Department, Puducherry                                         | 100                     | 0            | 50            | 150          |
| 30 | Panchayat Raj and Rural Development, Lakshadweep                                 | 100                     | -            | 200           | 300          |
| 31 | Department Of Panchayats & Rural Development, Govt. of West Bengal               | 2000 (T-200)            | 1000(T-100)  | 1000 (T- 100) | 4000 (T-400) |
| 32 | Rural Development, Panchayati Raj & Community Development Department, Daman &Diu | -                       | 100          | 100           | 200          |
| 33 | Rural Development, Panchayati raj & Community Development, Dadar &Nagar Haveli   | -                       | 100          | 200           | 300          |
| 34 | Department of Rural Development & Panchayats, Chandigarh Union Territory         | -                       | 200          | 0             | 200          |
| 35 | Rural Development Deptt; Govt. of NCT of Delhi                                   | 100                     | 500          | -             | 600          |
| 36 | Khadi and Village Industries Commission, (KVIC), Mumbai                          | 4000 (NER- 500) (T-200) | 2500 (T-100) | 1500(T- 100)  | 8000 (T-500) |
|    | Total                                                                            | 55,000                  | 27,300       | 17,700        | 1,00,000     |

## ANNEXURE-II

ANNEXURE-II  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  THE  PART  (c)  OF  THE  LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED  QUESTION  NUMBER  351  TO  BE  ANSWERED  ON  19.07.2018  ON 'AVAILABILITY OF BIO-GAS IN REMOTE/RURAL AREAS'.

Details  of  States/UTs-  wise  total  numbers  of  biogas  plants  installed  and  number  of villages  covered  under  the  NBMMP  Scheme  during  the  last  three  years,  2015-16  to 2017-18.

| Sl. No.   | Name of States/Union Territories   | Number of Biogas plants set up during last three years 2015-16 to 2017-18   | Number of villages covered under the Biogas scheme from the year 2015-16 to 2017-18 (As per information available on 17.07.2018)   |
|-----------|------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 1.        | Andhra Pradesh                     | 21184                                                                       | 2863                                                                                                                               |
| 2.        | Arunachal Pradesh                  | 5                                                                           | 2                                                                                                                                  |
| 3.        | Assam                              | 22603                                                                       | 7895                                                                                                                               |
| 4.        | Bihar                              | 33                                                                          | 29                                                                                                                                 |
| 5.        | Chhattisgarh                       | 4660                                                                        | 1460                                                                                                                               |
| 6.        | Goa                                | 121                                                                         | 46                                                                                                                                 |
| 7.        | Gujarat                            | 4144                                                                        | 498                                                                                                                                |
| 8.        | Haryana                            | 1297                                                                        | 87                                                                                                                                 |
| 9.        | Himachal Pradesh                   | 263                                                                         | 187                                                                                                                                |
| 10.       | Jammu &Kashmir                     | 95                                                                          | 5                                                                                                                                  |
| 11.       | Jharkhand                          | 361                                                                         | 23                                                                                                                                 |
| 12.       | Karnataka                          | 17278                                                                       | 1301                                                                                                                               |
| 13.       | Kerala                             | 6127                                                                        | 675                                                                                                                                |
| 14.       | Madhya Pradesh                     | 17283                                                                       | 4458                                                                                                                               |
| 15.       | Maharashtra                        | 36612                                                                       | 12604                                                                                                                              |
| 16.       | Manipur                            | -                                                                           | -                                                                                                                                  |
| 17.       | Meghalaya                          | 370                                                                         | 113                                                                                                                                |
| 18.       | Mizoram                            | 530                                                                         | 67                                                                                                                                 |
| 19.       | Nagaland                           | 0                                                                           | -                                                                                                                                  |
| 20.       | Odisha                             | 5630                                                                        | 1733                                                                                                                               |
| 21.       | Punjab                             | 7199                                                                        | 5350                                                                                                                               |
| 22.       | Rajasthan                          | 1137                                                                        | 415                                                                                                                                |
| 23.       | Sikkim                             | 170                                                                         | 18                                                                                                                                 |
| 24.       | Tamil Nadu                         | 455                                                                         | 53                                                                                                                                 |
| 25.       | Telangana                          | 13023                                                                       | 1329                                                                                                                               |
| 26.       | Tripura                            | 285                                                                         | 165                                                                                                                                |
| 27.       | Uttar Pradesh                      | 1710                                                                        | 829                                                                                                                                |
| 28.       | Uttarakhand                        | 4026                                                                        | 883                                                                                                                                |
| 29.       | West Bengal                        | 317                                                                         | 292                                                                                                                                |
| 30.       | KVIC, Mumbai (All States)          | *                                                                           | *                                                                                                                                  |
|           | Total                              | 166918                                                                      | 43380                                                                                                                              |

*KVIC  figures  of  Villages  covered  have  been  subsumed  in  the  respective States.