Lok Sabha Question No. 4361 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-07-19
Subject: Air Quality Index Display Machines
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT,  FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: Vijay Kumar Dubey, Rebati Tripura, Manoj Kumar Tiwari, Santosh Kumar

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION N0. 4361

TO BE ANSWERED ON 19.07.2019

## Air Quality Index Display Machines

4361.   SHRI VIJAY KUMAR DUBEY:

SHRI REBATI TRIPURA:

SHRI MANOJ TIWARI:

SHRI SANTOSH KUMAR:

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

- (a) whether  the  Government  has  any  proposal  to  install  Air  Quality  Index  display machines in different parts of each district of the country;
- (b) if  so,  the  details  thereof,  State/UT  wise  including  Uttar  Pradesh,  Delhi/NCR  and Bihar; and
- (c) if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

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

- (a) to (c) Continuous Ambient Air Quality Monitoring (CAAQM) Stationsinstalled in 18 states covering 103 cities are connected to National Air Quality Index (NAQI) and the list is given in Annexure-I. Under National Clean Air Programme (NCAP), Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, funds are allocated for installation of 65 CAAQM Stations in various cities in current year i.e. 2019-2020. City wise proposed CAAQM Stations under NCAP is given in Annexure-II.

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Annexure referred to in reply to Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 4361 due for reply on  19.07.2019  regarding  'Air  Quality  Index  Display  Machines'  by Shri  Vijay  Kumar Dubey,  Shri  Rebati  Tripura,  Shri  Manoj  Tiwari  &  Shri  Santosh  Kumar,  Hon'ble Members of Lok Sabha

Annexure-I

## CAAQM Stations in Cities connected to NAQI

S. No.

State

City

| S. No.   | State          | City              |
|----------|----------------|-------------------|
| 1.       | Andhra Pradesh | Amaravati         |
|          |                | Rajamahendravaram |
|          |                | Tirupati          |
|          |                | Vijayawada        |
|          |                | Visakhapatnam     |
| 2.       | Assam          | Guwahati          |
| 3.       | Bihar          | Gaya              |
|          |                | Muzaffarpur       |
|          |                | Patna             |
| 4.       | Delhi          | Delhi             |
| 5.       | Gujarat        | Ahmedabad         |
|          |                | Ankleshwar        |
|          |                | Gandhinagar       |
|          |                | Vapi              |
|          |                | Vatva             |
| 6.       | Haryana        | Ambala            |
|          |                | Bahadurgarh       |
|          |                | Ballabgarh        |
|          |                | Bhiwani           |
|          |                | Dharuhera         |
|          |                | Faridabad         |
|          |                | Fatehabad         |
|          |                | Gurugram          |
|          |                | Hisar             |
|          |                | Jind              |

| S. No.   | State          | City               |
|----------|----------------|--------------------|
|          |                | Kaithal            |
|          |                | Karnal             |
|          |                | Kurukshetra        |
|          |                | Mandikhera         |
|          |                | Manesar            |
|          |                | Narnaul            |
|          |                | Palwal             |
|          |                | Panchkula          |
|          |                | Panipat            |
|          |                | Rohtak             |
|          |                | Sirsa              |
|          |                | Sonipat            |
|          |                | Yamuna Nagar       |
| 7.       | Jharkhand      | Jorapokhar         |
| 8.       | Karnataka      | Bengaluru          |
|          |                | Chikkaballapur     |
|          |                | Hubballi           |
|          |                | Kalaburagi         |
| 9.       | Kerala         | Eloor              |
|          |                | Thiruvananthapuram |
| 10.      | Madhya Pradesh | Damoh              |
|          |                | Dewas              |
|          |                | Maihar             |
|          |                | Mandideep          |
|          |                | Pithampur          |

| S. No.   | State       | City            |
|----------|-------------|-----------------|
|          |             | Ratlam          |
|          |             | Satna           |
|          |             | Singrauli       |
|          |             | Ujjain          |
| 11.      | Maharashtra | Aurangabad      |
|          |             | Chandrapur      |
|          |             | Mumbai          |
|          |             | Nagpur          |
|          |             | Nashik          |
|          |             | Navi Mumbai     |
|          |             | Pune            |
|          |             | Solapur         |
|          |             | Thane           |
| 12.      | Odisha      | Brajrajnagar    |
|          |             | Talcher         |
| 13.      | Punjab      | Amritsar        |
|          |             | Bathinda        |
|          |             | Jalandhar       |
|          |             | Khanna          |
|          |             | Ludhiana        |
|          |             | MandiGobindgarh |
|          |             | Patiala         |
|          |             | Rupnagar        |
| 14.      | Rajasthan   | Alwar           |
|          |             | Ajmer           |

| S. No.   | State         | City          |
|----------|---------------|---------------|
|          |               | Bhiwadi       |
|          |               | Jaipur        |
|          |               | Jodhpur       |
|          |               | Kota          |
|          |               | Pali          |
|          |               | Udaipur       |
| 15.      | Tamil Nadu    | Chennai       |
|          |               | Coimbatore    |
| 16.      | Telangana     | Hyderabad     |
| 17.      | Uttar Pradesh | Agra          |
|          |               | Baghpat       |
|          |               | Bulandshahr   |
|          |               | Ghaziabad     |
|          |               | Greater Noida |
|          |               | Hapur         |
|          |               | Kanpur        |
|          |               | LoniDehat     |
|          |               | Lucknow       |
|          |               | Moradabad     |
|          |               | Muzaffarnagar |
|          |               | Noida         |
|          |               | Varanasi      |
| 18.      | West Bengal   | Asanol        |
|          |               | Durgapur      |
|          |               | Haldia        |

| S. No.   | State   | City     |
|----------|---------|----------|
|          |         | Howrah   |
|          |         | Kolkata  |
|          |         | Siliguri |

Annexure-II

## City-wise Number of CAAQMS sanctioned for funding under NCAP

| Sl. No   | State          | Cities Sl. No   | Cities                  |   SanctionedCAAQM stations |
|----------|----------------|-----------------|-------------------------|----------------------------|
| 1.       | Andhra Pradesh | 1.              | Vijayawada              |                          3 |
| 2.       | Bihar          | 2.              | Patna                   |                          3 |
| 3.       | Chandigarh     | 3.              | Chandigarh              |                          2 |
| 4.       | Chhattisgarh   | 4.              | Raipur                  |                          2 |
| 4.       | Chhattisgarh   | 5.              | Bhilai                  |                          2 |
| 5.       | Gujarat        | 6.              | Surat                   |                          3 |
| 6.       | Jharkhand      | 7.              | Dhanbad                 |                          2 |
| 7.       | Karnataka      | 8.              | Bangalore               |                          4 |
| 8.       | Madhya Pradesh | 9.              | Bhopal                  |                          2 |
| 8.       | Madhya Pradesh | 10.             | Gwalior                 |                          2 |
| 9.       | Maharashtra    | 11.             | Navi Mumbai             |                          3 |
| 9.       | Maharashtra    | 12.             | Nagpur                  |                          3 |
| 9.       | Maharashtra    | 13.             | Pune                    |                          2 |
| 10.      | Punjab         | 14.             | Ludhiana                |                          4 |
| 10.      | Punjab         | 15.             | Patiala                 |                          4 |
| 11.      | Rajasthan      | 16.             | Jaipur                  |                          2 |
| 11.      | Rajasthan      | 17.             | Jodhpur                 |                          2 |
| 11.      | Rajasthan      | 18.             | Kota                    |                          2 |
| 12.      | Telangana      | 19.             | Hyderabad               |                          5 |
| 13.      | Uttar Pradesh  | 20.             | Kanpur                  |                          2 |
| 13.      | Uttar Pradesh  | 21.             | Lucknow                 |                          2 |
| 13.      | Uttar Pradesh  | 22.             | Agra                    |                          2 |
| 13.      | Uttar Pradesh  | 23.             | Varanasi                |                          3 |
| 13.      | Uttar Pradesh  | 24.             | Prayagraj (Allahabad)   |                          3 |
| 14.      | Odisha         | 25.             | Bhubaneswar and Cuttack |                          3 |
| Total    | Total          | Total           | Total                   |                         65 |

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