Lok Sabha Question No. 4331 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2020-03-19
Subject: Over Exploitation of Ground Water
Ministry: JAL SHAKTI
Asked by: Sangamlal Kadedin Gupta

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF JAL SHAKTI,

## DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES, RIVER DEVELOPMENT & GANGA REJUVENATION

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. †4331

ANSWERED ON 1 9.0 3.2020

## OVER EXPLOITATION OF GROUND WATER

## †4331. SHRI SANGAM LAL GUPTA

Will the Minister of JAL SHAKTI be pleased to state:

(a) whether ground water is over exploited for agricultural, industrial and domestic purposes

(b) if so, the details of the total ground water over exploited during the last three years, ear - wise;

(c) whether ground water is being misused due to lack of preventive measures to check it a among the users;

- (d) if so, the details thereof; and

(e) the details of the steps taken by the Government to spread awareness among State s in this regard and th action taken against the repeated offenders especially in Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR JAL SHAKTI & SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT

## (SHRI RATTAN LAL KATARIA )

(a) & (b) The Dynamic Ground Water Resources of the country are being periodically assessed Central Ground Water Board ( CGWB) and State Governments. As per the 2017 assessment, total An Ground  Water  Recharge  is  432  Billion  Cubic  Meter  (BCM)  and  the  An nual  Extractable  Ground  Water Resource is 393 BCM. The Annual Ground Water Extraction for all uses is 249 BCM, out of w BCM (89%) utilized for irrigation purposes, about 2 BCM for industrial purpose and 25 BCM f use. The details are giv en in Annexure I .

Out of the total 6881 assessment units (Block/ Taluks/ Mandals/ watersheds/ Firkas) i 1186  units  in  17  States/UTs  have  been  categorized  as  'Over -exploited'  where  the  Annual  Ground  Water Extraction  is  more  than  Annual  Extrac table  Ground  Water  Resource.  313  units  have  been  categoriz 'Critical', 972 units as 'Semi -critical', 4310 units as 'Safe' and 100 units as 'Saline' .The details are given in Annexure II .

(c) Ground  water  levels  in  various  parts  of  the  Country  are  d eclining  because  of  continuous  withdraw necessitated by increased demand of fresh water for various uses, vagaries of rainfall, inc industrialization & urbanization etc. Further, no case of misuse of groundwater due to la e measures have been reported.

(d) In view of reply to (c) above, the question does not arise.

(e) Ministry  has  undertaken  a  number  of  Information,  Education  & Commu ication  (IEC)  activities  fo creating awareness among various target groups viz. organizing workshops/Seminars/Conferences of National Water awards, social media campaign through Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc.

As per information available with Central Ground Water Authority (CGWA)/CGWB, no ca repeated  offenders  have  come  to  notice  from  Pratapgarh  district. Further,  CGWA  has  also  appointed  the District  Magistrate  /  District  Collector  of  each  Revenue  Distric t  and  Regional  Directors  of  CGWB  as Authorized Officers, who have been given the power to enforce compliance of NOC conditions/in against repeated offenders

Annexure  referred  to  in  reply  to  part  (a)  &  (b)  of  Unstarred  Quest ion  No. †4331 to  be answered in Lok Sabha on 19.03.2020 regarding 'Over Exploitation of Ground Water '.

## STATE - WISE GROUND WATER RESOURCES OF INDIA, 2017

| S.   | States / Union Territories   | Total Annual Ground Water   | Total Natural   | Annual Extractable Ground   | Current Annual Ground Water   | Current Annual Ground Water   | Current Annual Ground Water   | Current Annual Ground Water   | Stage of Ground Water Extraction   |
|------|------------------------------|-----------------------------|-----------------|-----------------------------|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|------------------------------------|
| No.  |                              | Recharg                     | Discharges      | Water Resource              | Irrigatio n                   | Extraction Indust rial        | Domestic                      | Total                         | (%)                                |
| 1    |                              | e 7                         | 8               | 9                           | 10                            | 11                            | 12                            | 13                            | 16                                 |
|      | 2 States                     |                             |                 |                             |                               |                               |                               |                               |                                    |
| 1    | Andhra Pradesh               | 21.22                       | 1.07            | 20.15                       | 7.85                          | 0.14                          | 0.90                          | 8.90                          | 44.15                              |
| 2    | Arunachal Pradesh            | 3.02                        | 0.36            | 2.67                        | 0.00                          | 0.00                          | 0.01                          | 0.01                          | 0.28                               |
| 3    | Assam                        | 28.67                       | 4.42            | 24.26                       | 1.97                          | 0.06                          | 0.69                          | 2.73                          | 11.25                              |
| 4    | Bihar                        | 31.41                       | 2.43            | 28.99                       | 10.78                         | 0.66                          | 1.83                          | 13.26                         | 45.76                              |
| 5    | Chhattisgarh                 | 11.57                       | 1.00            | 10.57                       | 3.98                          | 0.05                          | 0.67                          | 4.70                          | 44.43                              |
| 6    | Delhi                        | 0.32                        | 0.02            | 0.30                        | 0.09                          | 0.02                          | 0.24                          | 0.36                          | 119.61                             |
| 7    | Goa                          | 0.27                        | 0.11            | 0.16                        | 0.02                          |                               | 0.03                          | 0.05                          | 33.50                              |
| 8    | Gujarat                      | 22.37                       | 1.12            | 21.25                       | 12.84                         | 0.11                          | 0.63                          | 13.58                         | 63.89                              |
| 9    | Haryana                      | 10.15                       | 1.01            | 9.13                        | 11.53                         | 0.34                          | 0.63                          | 12.50                         | 136.91                             |
| 10   | Himachal Pradesh             | 0.51                        | 0.05            | 0.46                        | 0.20                          | 0.00                          | 0.19                          | 0.39                          | 86.37                              |
| 11   | Jammu & Kashmir              | 2.89                        | 0.29            | 2.60                        | 0.20                          | 0.07                          | 0.50                          | 0.76                          | 29.47                              |
| 12   | Jharkhand                    | 6.21                        | 0.52            | 5.69                        | 0.80                          | 0.22                          | 0.56                          | 1.58                          | 27.73                              |
| 13   | Karnataka                    | 16.84                       | 2.05            | 14.79                       | 9.39                          |                               | 0.95                          | 10.34                         | 69.87                              |
| 14   | Kerala                       | 5.77                        | 0.56            | 5.21                        | 1.22                          | 0.01                          | 1.44                          | 2.67                          | 51.27                              |
| 15   | Madhya Pradesh               | 36.42                       | 1.95            | 34.47                       | 17.43                         | 0.22                          | 1.24                          | 18.88                         | 54.76                              |
| 16   | Maharashtra                  | 31.64                       | 1.74            | 29.90                       | 15.10                         | 0.00                          | 1.22                          | 16.33                         | 54.62                              |
| 17   | Manipur                      | 0.43                        | 0.04            | 0.39                        | 0.00                          | 0.00                          | 0.00                          | 0.01                          | 1.44                               |
| 18   | Meghalaya                    | 1.83                        | 0.19            | 1.64                        | 0.03                          | 0.00                          | 0.01                          | 0.04                          | 2.28                               |
| 19   | Mizoram                      | 0.21                        | 0.02            | 0.19                        | 0.00                          | 0.00                          | 0.01                          | 0.01                          | 3.82                               |
| 20   | Nagaland                     | 2.20                        | 0.22            | 1.98                        | 0.00                          | 0.00                          | 0.02                          | 0.02                          | 0.99                               |
| 21   | Odisha                       | 16.74                       | 1.17            | 15.57                       | 5.28                          | 0.14                          | 1.15                          | 6.57                          | 42.18                              |
| 22   | Punjab                       | 23.93                       | 2.35            | 21.58                       | 34.56                         | 0.20                          | 1.01                          | 35.78                         | 165.77                             |
| 23   | Rajasthan                    | 13.18                       | 1.21            | 11.99                       | 14.85                         |                               | 1.92                          | 16.77                         | 139.88                             |
| 24   | Sikkim                       | 5.63                        | 4.11            | 1.52                        | 0.00                          | 0.00                          | 0.00                          | 0.00                          | 0.06                               |
| 25   | Tamil Nadu                   | 20.21                       | 2.02            | 18.19                       | 13.05                         |                               | 1.67                          | 14.71                         | 80.89                              |
| 26   | Telangana                    | 13.62                       | 1.25            | 12.37                       | 7.09                          |                               | 1.00                          | 8.09                          | 65.45                              |
| 27   | Tripura                      | 1.53                        | 0.29            | 1.24                        | 0.02                          | 0.00                          | 0.08                          | 0.10                          | 7.88                               |
| 28   | Uttar Pradesh                | 69.92                       | 4.60            | 65.32                       | 40.89                         |                               | 4.95                          | 45.84                         | 70.18                              |
| 29   | Uttarakhand                  | 3.04                        | 0.15            | 2.89                        | 1.30                          | 0.13                          | 0.22                          | 1.64                          | 56.83                              |
| 30   | West Bengal                  | 29.33                       | 2.77            | 26.56                       | 10.84                         |                               | 1.00                          | 11.84                         | 44.60                              |
|      | Total States                 | 431.09                      | 39.08           | 392.03                      | 221.32                        | 2.38                          | 24.76                         | 248.45                        | 63.37                              |
|      | Union Territories            |                             |                 |                             |                               |                               |                               |                               |                                    |
| 1    | Andaman &                    | 0.37                        | 0.04            | 0.33                        | 0.00                          | 0.00                          | 0.01                          | 0.01                          | 2.74                               |
| 2    | Nicobar Chandigarh           | 0.04                        | 0.00            | 0.04                        | 0.00                          |                               | 0.03                          | 0.03                          | 89.00                              |
| 3    | Dadra & Nagar                | 0.07                        | 0.00            | 0.07                        | 0.01                          |                               | 0.01                          | 0.02                          | 31.34                              |
| 4    | Haveli Daman & Diu           | 0.02                        | 0.00            | 0.02                        | 0.01                          | 0.00                          | 0.00                          | 0.01                          | 61.40                              |
| 5    | Lakshdweep                   | 0.01                        | 0.01            | 0.00                        | 0.00                          | 0.00                          | 0.00                          | 0.00                          | 65.99                              |
| 6    | Puducherry                   | 0.23                        | 0.02            | 0.20                        | 0.11                          |                               | 0.04                          | 0.15                          | 74.33                              |
|      | Total UTs                    | 0.73                        | 0.08            | 0.66                        | 0.13                          | 0.00                          | 0.10                          | 0.23                          | 34.51                              |
|      | Grand Total                  | 431.83                      | 39.16           | 392.69                      | 221.44                        | 2.38                          | 24.86                         | 248.68                        | 63.33                              |

(in bcm)

Annexure  referred  to  in  reply  to  part  (a)  &  (b)  of  Unstarred  Question  No. †4331 to  be answered in Lok Sabha on 19.03.2020 regarding 'Over Exploitation of Ground Water '.

## CATEGORIZATION OF BLOCKS/ MANDALS/ TALUKAS IN INDIA (2017)

| S.No.   | States / Union Territ ories   | Total No. of Assessed Units   | Safe   | Safe   | Semi- Critical   | Semi- Critical   | Critical   | Critical   | Over - Exploited   | Over - Exploited   | Saline   | Saline   |
|---------|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|--------|--------|------------------|------------------|------------|------------|--------------------|--------------------|----------|----------|
| S.No.   | States / Union Territ ories   | Total No. of Assessed Units   | Nos.   | %      | Nos.             | %                | Nos.       | %          | Nos.               | %                  | Nos.     | %        |
|         | States                        |                               |        |        |                  |                  |            |            |                    |                    |          |          |
| 1       | Andhra Pradesh                | 670                           | 501    | 75     | 60               | 9                | 24         | 4          | 45                 | 7                  | 40       | 6        |
| 2       | Arunachal Pradesh             | 11                            | 11     | 100    | 0                | 0                | 0          | 0          | 0                  | 0                  | 0        | 0        |
| 3       | Assam                         | 28                            | 28     | 100    | 0                | 0                | 0          | 0          | 0                  | 0                  | 0        | 0        |
| 4       | Bihar                         | 534                           | 432    | 81     | 72               | 13               | 18         | 3          | 12                 | 2                  | 0        | 0        |
| 5       | Chattisgarh                   | 146                           | 122    | 84     | 22               | 15               | 2          | 1          | 0                  | 0                  | 0        | 0        |
| 6       | Delhi                         | 34                            | 3      | 9      | 7                | 21               | 2          | 6          | 22                 | 65                 | 0        | 0        |
| 7       | Goa                           | 12                            | 12     | 100    | 0                | 0                | 0          | 0          | 0                  | 0                  | 0        | 0        |
| 8       | Gujarat                       | 248                           | 194    | 78     | 11               | 4                | 5          | 2          | 25                 | 10                 | 13       | 5        |
| 9       | Haryana                       | 128                           | 26     | 20     | 21               | 16               | 3          | 2          | 78                 | 61                 | 0        | 0        |
| 10      | Himachal Pradesh              | 8                             | 3      | 38     | 1                | 13               | 0          | 0          | 4                  | 50                 | 0        | 0        |
| 11      | Jammu & Kashmir               | 22                            | 22     | 100    | 0                | 0                | 0          | 0          | 0                  | 0                  | 0        | 0        |
| 12      | Jharkhand                     | 260                           | 245    | 94     | 10               | 4                | 2          | 1          | 3                  | 1                  | 0        | 0        |
| 13      | Karnataka                     | 176                           | 97     | 55     | 26               | 15               | 8          | 5          | 45                 | 26                 | 0        | 0        |
| 14      | Kerala                        | 152                           | 119    | 78     | 30               | 20               | 2          | 1          | 1                  | 1                  | 0        | 0        |
| 15      | Madhya Pradesh                | 313                           | 240    | 77     | 44               | 14               | 7          | 2          | 22                 | 7                  | 0        | 0        |
| 16      | Maharashtra                   | 353                           | 271    | 77     | 61               | 17               | 9          | 3          | 11                 | 3                  | 1        | 0        |
| 17      | Manipur                       | 9                             | 9      | 100    | 0                | 0                | 0          | 0          | 0                  | 0                  | 0        | 0        |
| 18      | Meghalaya                     | 11                            | 11     | 100    | 0                | 0                | 0          | 0          | 0                  | 0                  | 0        | 0        |
| 19      | Mizoram                       | 26                            | 26     | 100    | 0                | 0                | 0          | 0          | 0                  | 0                  | 0        | 0        |
| 20      | Nagaland                      | 11                            | 11     | 100    | 0                | 0                | 0          | 0          | 0                  | 0                  | 0        | 0        |
| 21      | Odisha                        | 314                           | 303    | 96     | 5                | 2                | 0          | 0          | 0                  | 0                  | 6        | 2        |
| 22      | Punjab                        | 138                           | 22     | 16     | 5                | 4                | 2          | 1          | 109                | 79                 | 0        | 0        |
| 23      | Rajasthan                     | 295                           | 45     | 15     | 29               | 10               | 33         | 11         | 185                | 63                 | 3        | 1        |
| 24      | Sikkim                        | 4                             | 4      | 100    | 0                | 0                | 0          | 0          | 0                  | 0                  | 0        | 0        |
| 25      | Tamil Nadu                    | 1166                          | 427    | 37     | 163              | 14               | 79         | 7          | 462                | 40                 | 35       | 3        |
| 26      | Telangana                     | 584                           | 278    | 48     | 169              | 29               | 67         | 11         | 70                 | 12                 | 0        | 0        |
| 27      | Tripura                       | 59                            | 59     | 100    | 0                | 0                | 0          | 0          | 0                  | 0                  | 0        | 0        |
| 28      | Uttar Pradesh*                | 830                           | 540    | 65     | 151              | 18               | 48         | 6          | 91                 | 11                 | 0        | 0        |
| 29      | Uttarakhand                   | 18                            | 13     | 72     | 5                | 28               | 0          | 0          | 0                  | 0                  | 0        | 0        |
| 30      | West Bengal **                | 268                           | 191    | 71     | 76               | 28               | 1          | 0          | 0                  | 0                  | 0        | 0        |
|         | Total States                  | 6828                          | 4265   | 62     | 968              | 14               | 312        | 5          | 1185               | 17                 | 98       | 1        |
|         | Union Territories             |                               |        |        |                  |                  |            |            |                    |                    |          |          |
| 1       | Andaman & Nicobar             | 36                            | 35     | 97     | 0                | 0                | 0          | 0          | 0                  | 0                  | 1        | 3        |
| 2       | Chandigarh                    | 1                             | 0      | 0      | 1                | 100              | 0          | 0          | 0                  | 0                  | 0        | 0        |
| 3       | Dadra & Nagar Haveli          | 1                             | 1      | 100    | 0                | 0                | 0          | 0          | 0                  | 0                  | 0        | 0        |
| 4       | Daman & Diu                   | 2                             | 1      | 50     | 0                | 0                | 1          | 50         | 0                  | 0                  | 0        | 0        |
| 5       | Lakshdweep                    | 9                             | 6      | 67     | 3                | 33               | 0          | 0          | 0                  | 0                  | 0        | 0        |
| 6       | Puducherry                    | 4                             | 2      | 50     | 0                | 0                | 0          | 0          | 1                  | 25                 | 1        | 25       |
|         | Total UTs                     | 53                            | 45     | 85     | 4                | 8                | 1          | 2          | 1                  | 2                  | 2        | 4        |
|         | Grand Total                   | 6881                          | 4310   | 63     | 972              | 14               | 313        | 5          | 1186               | 17                 | 100      | 1        |

## Note

Blocks -Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Jharkhand, Kerala, M.P., Manipur, Mizoram, Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, U ttarakhand, West Bengal

Taluks

-Karnataka, Goa, Gujarat, Maharashtra

Mandals

-Andhra Pradesh, Telangana

Districts/Valley -Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland

Islands

-Lakshadweep, Andaman & Nicobar Islands

Firka-

TamilNadu

Region

-Puducherry

UT -Chandigarh, Dadar & Nagar Haveli, Daman & Diu

Tehsil - NCT Delhi

*Uttar Pradesh:

There are total 820 block and 10 Cities

**The Ground Water resources assessment as on 2013 has been considered for the state of West Bengal

*****