Lok Sabha Question No. 834 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-07-23
Subject: Common Effluent Treatment Plants
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT,  FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: Riti Pathak

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE

## LOK SABHA UN-STARRED QUESTION NO. 834

TO BE ANSWERED ON 23.07.2021

## Common Effluent Treatment Plants

## 834.  SHRIMATI RITI PATHAK:

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

- (a)   whether the Government proposes to set upcommon effluent treatment plants across the country;
- (b)   if so, the details thereof, State/UT-wise includingMadhya Pradesh; and
- (c) the benefits likely to accrue as a result thereof?

## ANSWER

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

- (a) The Central Government has various schemes to facilitate setting up Common Effluent Treatment  plants  (CETPs)  across  the  countryfor  treatment  of  effluents  generated  from industrial units located in clusters.Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change was implementing a schemeto fundsetting up of CETPs for treatment of effluents generated from Small Scale Industries located in clusters from  year 1991.  However, this scheme has been discontinued  from  2017-18.  Setting  up  of  CETP  is  also  being  undertaken  by  Ministry  of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises through a cluster development approach strategized to help Micro and Small Enterprises, by Ministry of Textiles under the Integrated Processing Development  Scheme  (IPDS)  for  textile  processing  sectorand  by  Ministry  of  Jal  Shakti through NMCG programme in Ganga Basin.
- (b)  There are about 196 CETPs operating across the countryand about 80 CETPs are under construction / proposal phase. State/UT-wise details of CETPs under operation / construction/proposal  phaseincluding  Madhya  Pradesh  are  at  Annexure-I.  Presently,  03 CETPs are operating in Madhya Pradesh, with designed capacity of 9.4 MLD. One CETP in Meghnagar, District -Jhabua with a designed capacity of 0.4 MLD  is under construction.Under IPDS, 9 CETP projects have been sanctioned in the State of Rajasthan (5 CETPs), Gujarat (1 CETP), Tamil Nadu (2 CETPs) and Telengana (1 CETP).
- (c) Common Effluent Treatment Plant is considered as a cost effective andviable treatment solution, to overcome the constraints associated with the effluent treatment in the small and medium  industries  at  individual  levels.  CETP  also  facilitates  in  reduction  of  number  of discharge points in any industry estate for better enforcement and also to make available the skilled manpower for proper treatment of effluent. It is also helpful in organizing the disposal of final effluent and sludge and improving upon the possibilities of recycle/reuse.

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ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  (b)  OF  THE  LOK  SABHA  UNSTARRED  QUESTION  NO.  834  DUE  FOR  REPLY  ON  23.07.2021  REGARDING 'COMMON EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANTS' BY SHRIMATI RITI PATHAK, HON'BLE MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT

| Sl. No.   | State/UT         |   Number of operational CETPs |   No. of CETPs under construction /proposal phase |
|-----------|------------------|-------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------|
| 1.        | Andhra Pradesh   |                             6 |                                                 3 |
| 2.        | Assam            |                             1 |                                                 0 |
| 3.        | Bihar            |                             0 |                                                 5 |
| 4.        | Delhi            |                            13 |                                                 0 |
| 5.        | Gujarat          |                            34 |                                                19 |
| 6.        | Haryana          |                            19 |                                                10 |
| 7.        | Himachal Pradesh |                             1 |                                                 2 |
| 8.        | Jammu &Kashmir   |                             2 |                                                 4 |
| 9.        | Jharkhand        |                             1 |                                                 1 |
| 10.       | Karnataka        |                            10 |                                                 2 |
| 11.       | Kerala           |                             6 |                                                 1 |
| 12.       | Madhya Pradesh   |                             3 |                                                 1 |
| 13.       | Maharashtra      |                            26 |                                                 4 |
| 14.       | Punjab           |                             3 |                                                 4 |
| 15.       | Rajasthan        |                            16 |                                                 9 |
| 16.       | Tamil Nadu       |                            36 |                                                 5 |
| 17.       | Telangana        |                             7 |                                                 1 |
| 18.       | Tripura          |                             1 |                                                 1 |
| 19.       | Uttar Pradesh    |                             7 |                                                 4 |
| 20.       | Uttarakhand      |                             3 |                                                 0 |
| 21.       | West Bengal      |                             1 |                                                 4 |
|           | Total            |                           196 |                                                80 |