Lok Sabha Question No. 3077 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-08-06
Subject: Cities under National Clean Air Programme
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT,  FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: Balashowry Vallabbhaneni

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 3077

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 06.08.2021

## Cities under National Clean Air Programme

## 3077.  SHRI BALASHOWRY VALLABHANENI:

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

- (a) the details of cities in which the National Clean Air programme is being implemented in the country, State/UT-wise;
- (b) whether  the  Government  proposes  to  scale  up  activities  in  the  identified  cities  to clean the air and if so, the details thereof;
- (c) whether there have been demands to include more cities under the programme and if so, the details thereof along with the action taken thereon;
- (d) whether it is true that the Ministry has got Rs. 200 crores less than that was proposed in 2020-21 and if so, the reasons therefor indicating the allocation made for various scheme to clean air in 2021-22; and
- (e) the  present  status  of  setting  up  of  smog  towers  to  absorb  pollutants  around  in  the country?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE (SHRI ASHWINI KUMAR CHOUBEY)

## (a) and (b) :

City  Specific  Clean  Air  Action  Plans  have  been  rolled  out  for  implementation  in  132  nonattainments  and  million  plus  population  cities  under  NCAP.  List  of  identified  cities  are enclosed as Annexure I.

Steering,  Monitoring and  Implementation Committees have been constituted at Central and State level to monitor implementation of NCAP. Further, city level nodal officers have been appointed  from  CPCB for ensuring  ground  implementation  of  NCAP  in  collaboration  with city implementation committees.

## (c) :

124 cities exceeding National Ambient Air Quality Standards, consecutively for five  years, have  been  identified  as  Non-Attainment  Cities  (NACs)  and  the  list  of  NACs  is  updated annually.  Further,  08  additional  million  plus  cities  which  are  not  non-attainment  city  have been also identified for air quality improvement as per 15 th Finance Commission Grants.

## (d) :

An amount of ₹290 crores was allocated under NCAP and ₹152.73 crores was released during FY 2020-21 for initiating actions such as expansion of monitoring network, construction and demolition waste management facilities, non-motorised transport infrastructure, green buffers, mechanical street sweepers, composting units etc.

Further, ₹4400 crores have been released in the FY 2020-21 as per the recommendations of the XV- Finance Commission to tackle the burgeoning problem of air pollution for 42 cities/ urban agglomerates (UAs).

For  the  year,  2021-22  an  allocation  of    ₹  225  Crores  has  been  made  under  NCAP  and ₹12,139 Crores has been allocated under XV- Finance Commission to tackle the burgeoning problem of air pollution for 42 cities/ urban agglomerates (UAs) for FY 2021-26.

## (e) :

The developmental works of two smog towers, one at Anand Vihar and another at Connaught Place in Delhi have commenced in compliance to Hon'ble Supreme Court in its order dated 13.01.2020 in Writ Petition (Civil) 13029/1985 to study the efficacy of these towers.

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## List of 124 Non-Attainment cities

| State                | S.No.   | City           |
|----------------------|---------|----------------|
| Andhra Pradesh (13)  | 1.      | Guntur         |
| Andhra Pradesh (13)  | 2.      | Kurnool        |
| Andhra Pradesh (13)  | 3.      | Nellore        |
| Andhra Pradesh (13)  | 4.      | Vijayawada     |
| Andhra Pradesh (13)  | 5.      | Vishakhapatnam |
| Andhra Pradesh (13)  | 6.      | Anantapur      |
| Andhra Pradesh (13)  | 7.      | Chitoor        |
| Andhra Pradesh (13)  | 8.      | Eluru          |
| Andhra Pradesh (13)  | 9.      | Kadapa         |
| Andhra Pradesh (13)  | 10.     | Ongole         |
| Andhra Pradesh (13)  | 11.     | Rajahmundry    |
| Andhra Pradesh (13)  | 12.     | Srikakulam     |
| Andhra Pradesh (13)  | 13.     | Vizianagaram   |
| Assam (05)           | 14.     | Guwahati       |
| Assam (05)           | 15.     | Nagaon         |
| Assam (05)           | 16.     | Nalbari        |
| Assam (05)           | 17.     | Sibsagar       |
| Assam (05)           | 18.     | Silchar        |
| Bihar (03)           | 19.     | Patna          |
| Bihar (03)           | 20.     | Gaya           |
| Bihar (03)           | 21.     | Muzaffarpur    |
| Chandigarh (01)      | 22.     | Chandigarh     |
| Chhattisgarh (03)    | 23.     | Bhilai         |
| Chhattisgarh (03)    | 24.     | Korba          |
|                      | 25.     | Raipur         |
| Delhi (01)           | 26.     | Delhi          |
| Gujarat (03)         | 27.     | Surat          |
| Gujarat (03)         | 28.     | Ahmedabad      |
| Himachal Pradesh (7) | 29.     | Vadodara       |
| Himachal Pradesh (7) | 30. 31. | Baddi          |
|                      |         | Damtal         |
|                      | 32.     | Kala Amb       |
|                      | 33.     | Nalagarh       |
|                      | 34.     | Paonta Sahib   |
|                      | 35.     | Parwanoo       |
|                      | 36.     | Sunder Nagar   |
| Jammu &Kashmir (2)   | 37. 38. | Jammu Srinagar |
| Jharkhand (01)       | 39.     | Dhanbad        |
| Karnataka (04)       | 40.     | Bangalore      |

## Annexure

|                     | 41.   | Devanagere    |
|---------------------|-------|---------------|
|                     | 42.   | Gulburga      |
|                     | 43.   | Hubli-Dharwad |
|                     | 44.   | Bhopal        |
|                     | 45.   | Dewas         |
|                     | 46.   | Indore        |
| Madhya Pradesh (06) | 47.   | Sagar         |
|                     | 48.   | Ujjain        |
|                     | 49.   | Gwalior       |
|                     | 50.   | Akola         |
|                     | 51.   | Amravati      |
|                     | 52.   | Aurangabad    |
|                     | 53.   | Badlapur      |
|                     | 54.   | Chandrapur    |
|                     | 55.   | Jalgaon       |
|                     | 56.   | Jalna         |
|                     | 57.   | Kolhapur      |
|                     | 58.   | Latur         |
| Maharashtra (18)    | 59.   | Mumbai        |
|                     | 60.   | Nagpur        |
|                     | 61.   | Nashik        |
|                     | 62.   | Navi Mumbai   |
|                     | 63.   | Pune          |
|                     | 64.   | Sangli        |
|                     | 65.   | Solapur       |
|                     | 66.   | Ulhasnagar    |
|                     | 67.   | Thane         |
| Meghalaya (01)      | 68.   | Byrnihat      |
| Nagaland (02)       | 70.   | Kohima        |
|                     | 71.   |               |
| Orissa (07)         |       | Angul         |
|                     | 72.   | Balasore      |
|                     | 73.   | Bhubaneswar   |
|                     | 74.   | Cuttack       |
|                     | 75.   | Rourkela      |
|                     | 76.   | Talcher       |
|                     | 77.   | Kalinga Nagar |
|                     | 78.   | DeraBassi     |
| Punjab (09)         | 79.   | Gobindgarh    |

|                    |   80. | Jalandhar           |
|--------------------|-------|---------------------|
|                    |    81 | Khanna              |
|                    |    82 | Ludhiana            |
|                    |    83 | NayaNangal          |
|                    |    84 | Pathankot/Dera Baba |
|                    |    85 | Patiala             |
|                    |    86 | Amritsar            |
|                    |    87 | Alwar               |
|                    |    88 | Jaipur              |
| Rajasthan (05)     |    89 | Jodhpur             |
|                    |    90 | Kota                |
|                    |    91 | Udaipur             |
|                    |    92 | Thoothukudi         |
| Tamilnadu(03)      |    93 | Trichy              |
|                    |    94 | Madurai             |
|                    |    95 | Hyderabad           |
|                    |    96 | Nalgonda            |
| Telangana (04)     |    97 | Patancheruvu        |
|                    |    98 | Sangareddy          |
|                    |    99 | Agra                |
|                    |   100 | Allahabad           |
|                    |   101 | Anpara              |
|                    |   102 | Bareily             |
|                    |   103 | Firozabad           |
|                    |   104 | Gajraula            |
|                    |   105 | Ghaziabad           |
|                    |   106 | Jhansi              |
| Uttar Pradesh (16) |   107 | Kanpur              |
|                    |   108 | Khurja              |
|                    |   109 | Lucknow             |
|                    |   110 | Moradabad           |
|                    |   111 | Noida               |
|                    |   112 | Raebareli           |
|                    |   113 | Varanasi            |
|                    |   114 | Gorakhpur           |
|                    |   117 | Dehradun            |
| West Bengal (07)   |   118 | Kolkata             |

|   119. | Asansol     |
|--------|-------------|
|    120 | Barrackpore |
|    121 | Durgapur    |
|    122 | Haldia      |
|    123 | Howrah      |
|    124 | Raniganj    |

Million plus cities which is not non-attainment funded under XV-Financial commission

| State              |   S. No. | City        |
|--------------------|----------|-------------|
| Gujarat (1)        |        1 | Rajkot      |
| Haryana (1)        |        2 | Faridabad   |
| Jharkhand (2)      |        3 | Jamshedpur  |
| Jharkhand (2)      |        4 | Ranchi      |
| Madhya Pradesh (1) |        5 | Jabalpur    |
| Uttar Pradesh (1)  |        6 | Meerut      |
| Maharashtra (1)    |        7 | Vasai-Virar |
| Tamilnadu (1)      |        8 | Chennai     |

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