Lok Sabha Question No. 2059 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-12-19
Subject: Emission Inventory Report
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT,  FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: Sangamlal Kadedin Gupta

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

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 2059 TO BE ANSWERED ON 19.12.2022

## Emission Inventory Report

2059:

SHRI SANGAM LAL GUPTA:

SHRI PRATAP CHANDRA SARANGI:

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

- (a) whether the Government has details on the development of an Emission Inventory Report  of  the  Non-Attainment  Cities  to  quantify  the  level  or  the  nature  of pollutants discharged into the city's atmosphere;
- (b) if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor, State/UT-wise;
- (c) whether  the  Government  is  also  planning  to  undertake  an  assessment  study  on Carrying Capacity to address the question of how many people can be permitted in an area without the risk of degrading the environment there; and
- (d) if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE

(SHRI ASHWINI KUMAR CHOUBEY)

## (a), (b), (c) & (d):

Emission  Inventory  Report  for  21  non-attainment  Cities  have  been  prepared  and concerned State Pollution Control Boards (SPCB)/Pollution Control Committees (PCC) have been directed to carry out Emission Inventory Studies in all non-attainment Cities.

State-wise details of Cities who have prepared Emission Inventory Report are placed at Annexure-I .

Updated conceptual guidelines and Common Methodology for Air Quality Monitoring, Emission Inventory and Source Apportionment Studies for Indian Cities, and Methodology for Assessment of Carrying Capacity-Air, have been prepared and shared with State Pollution Control Boards/Pollution Control Committees  for  enabling SPCB/PCCs to carrying out such studies.

25 non-attainment Cities have been directed to carryout Carrying Capacity and Source Apportionment Studies. Details of the said Cities are placed at Annexure-II . Carrying Capacity Study has been conducted for Delhi and NCR.

Annexure I State-wise details of Emission Inventory Studies conducted in non-attainments Cities

| State         |   S. No. | City        |
|---------------|----------|-------------|
| Maharashtra   |        1 | Pune        |
| Maharashtra   |        2 | Mumbai      |
| Maharashtra   |        3 | Solapur     |
| Maharashtra   |        4 | Nashik      |
| Maharashtra   |        5 | Navi Mumbai |
| Maharashtra   |        6 | Amravati    |
| Maharashtra   |        7 | Kolhapur    |
| Maharashtra   |        8 | Aurangabad  |
| Bihar         |        9 | Gaya        |
| Bihar         |       10 | Patna       |
| Bihar         |       11 | Muzaffarpur |
| Delhi         |       12 | Delhi       |
| Gujarat       |       13 | Surat       |
| Gujarat       |       14 | Ahmedabad   |
| Punjab        |       15 | Jalandhar   |
| Jharkhand     |       16 | Dhanbad     |
| Rajasthan     |       17 | Jaipur      |
| Uttar Pradesh |       18 | Agra        |
| Uttar Pradesh |       19 | Kanpur      |
| West Bengal   |       20 | Kolkata     |
| West Bengal   |       21 | Howrah      |

Annexure I  I Details of non-attainment Cities which have been directed to conduct Carrying Capacity

## Study

|   S.No. | State            | S.No   | Cities        |
|---------|------------------|--------|---------------|
|       1 | Andhra Pradesh   | 1.     | Visakhapatnam |
|       1 | Andhra Pradesh   | 2.     | Rajahmundry   |
|       2 | Assam            | 3.     | Gowahati      |
|       3 | Bihar            | 4.     | Patna         |
|       4 | Chandigarh       | 5.     | Chandigarh    |
|       5 | Gujarat          | 6.     | Vadodara      |
|       6 | Himachal Pradesh |        | Baddi         |
|       7 | Jharkhand        | 7.     | Dhanbad       |
|       8 | Karnataka        | 8.     | HubliDharwad  |
|       9 | Madhya Pradesh   | 9.     | Ujjain        |
|      10 | Maharashtra      | 10.    | Mumbai        |
|      10 | Maharashtra      | 11.    | Pune          |
|      11 | Meghalaya        | 12.    | Byrnihat      |
|      12 | Nagaland         | 13.    | Kohima        |
|      13 | Odisha           | 14.    | Bhubaneswar   |
|      13 | Odisha           | 15.    | Balasore      |
|      14 | Rajasthan        | 16.    | Kota          |
|      15 | Tamilnadu        | 17.    | Thoothukudi   |
|      16 | Telengana        | 18.    | Nalgonda      |
|      17 | UttarPradesh     | 19.    | Noida         |
|      17 | UttarPradesh     | 20.    | Moradabad     |
|      17 | UttarPradesh     | 21.    | Bareilly      |
|      18 | Uttarakhand      | 22.    | Dehradun      |
|      19 | WestBengal       | 23.    | Kolkata       |
|      19 | WestBengal       | 24.    | Howrah        |