Lok Sabha Question No. 500 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-02-06
Subject: National Clean Air Programme
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT,  FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: Kotha Prabhakar  Reddy, Gautham Sigamani Pon

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 500

TO BE ANSWERED ON 06.02.2023

## National Clean Air Programme

500: SHRI KOTHA PRABHAKAR REDDY: DR. PON GAUTHAM SIGAMANI:

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

- (a) whether it is a fact that there has been no improvement in air quality in most cities covered under the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) introduced four years ago;
- (b) whether it  is  also  a  fact  that  out  of  131  cities  in  2021-22,  only  49  cities  that  have shown slight improvement in air quality;
- (c) whether it is also true that only 38 of the 131 cities that were given annual pollution reduction  targets  under  agreements  signed  between  State  Pollution  Control  Boards, Urban Local Bodies and the Centre managed to meet the targets for 2021-22;
- (d) whether the NCAP aims to bring a 20 per cent to 30 per cent reduction in pollution levels from PM2.5 and PM10 particles by 2024, using 2017 pollution levels as a base; and
- (e) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

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

(SHRI ASHWINI KUMAR CHOUBEY)

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

Ministry  of  Environment  Forest  &  Climate Change  (MoEF&CC) launched National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) in January, 2019 which is a long-term, time-bound national level strategy  for  prevention,  control  and  abatement  of  air  pollution.  Under  NCAP,  it  has  been envisaged to achieve targets of 20 to 30% reduction in Particulate Matter concentrations by 2024 in 131 cities of 24 States with respect to base year 2017. Subsequently, the target has been  revised  to  achieveup  to  40%  reduction  or  achieve  National  Ambient  Air  Quality Standards (NAAQS) in terms PM concentrations by 2025-26.

Cities  have  been  given  annual  reduction  target  in  the  range  of  3-15%  to  be  achieved  by implementation  of  City  Action  Plans  for  improvement  of  air  quality.  All  131  cities  have signed  MoUs  for  implementation  of  city  action  plans  under  NCAP,  viz.  82  cities  among CPCB,  SPCB  and  ULB,  and  49  cities  among  MoEFCC,  State  Urban  Development Department and ULB. Out of 131 cities, 95 cities have shown improvement in air quality in terms  of  Particulate  Matter  10  (PM10)  concentrations  in  FY  2021-22  with  respect  to  base year FY 2017-18. 20 cities have met the NAAQS in the year 2021-22. Detail of air quality status  of  95  cities  who  have  shown  improvement  with  respect  to  base  year  2017-18 ( Annexure-I ).

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Annexure-I Improvement in air quality status of 95 cities under NCAP

|   Sl. No. | Name of City      |   Average concentration of PM 10 (µg/m 3 ) (FY 2017-18) |   Average concentration of PM 10 (µg/m 3 ) (FY 2021-22) |
|-----------|-------------------|---------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------|
|         1 | Anantpur          |                                                      78 |                                                      52 |
|         2 | Chittur           |                                                      70 |                                                      49 |
|         3 | Eluru             |                                                      72 |                                                      65 |
|         4 | Guntur            |                                                      66 |                                                      58 |
|         5 | Kadapa            |                                                      75 |                                                      54 |
|         6 | Kurnool           |                                                      79 |                                                      61 |
|         7 | Nellore           |                                                      64 |                                                      55 |
|         8 | Ongole            |                                                      65 |                                                      52 |
|         9 | Rajamahendravaram |                                                      85 |                                                      68 |
|        10 | Vijayawada        |                                                      91 |                                                      67 |
|        11 | Vizhianagaram     |                                                      72 |                                                      71 |
|        12 | Silchar           |                                                      49 |                                                      45 |
|        13 | Sivasagar         |                                                      73 |                                                      47 |
|        14 | Patna             |                                                     172 |                                                     145 |
|        15 | Chandigarh        |                                                     114 |                                                      97 |
|        16 | Durg Bhilainagar  |                                                      86 |                                                      58 |
|        17 | Raipur            |                                                      70 |                                                      61 |
|        18 | Delhi             |                                                     241 |                                                     196 |
|        19 | Ahmedabad         |                                                     164 |                                                     113 |
|        20 | Rajkot            |                                                     150 |                                                     116 |
|        21 | Surat             |                                                     130 |                                                     100 |
|        22 | Vadodara          |                                                     133 |                                                     121 |
|        23 | Baddi             |                                                     174 |                                                     132 |
|        24 | Kala Amb          |                                                     118 |                                                     114 |
|        25 | Nalagarh          |                                                     146 |                                                      84 |
|        26 | Parwanoo          |                                                      66 |                                                      35 |
|        27 | Sunder Nagar      |                                                      78 |                                                      47 |
|        28 | Dhanbad           |                                                     315 |                                                     235 |
|        29 | Jamshedpur        |                                                     135 |                                                     110 |
|        30 | Ranchi            |                                                     141 |                                                     110 |
|        31 | Bengaluru         |                                                      92 |                                                      67 |

|   32 | Devangere       |   74 |   57 |
|------|-----------------|------|------|
|   33 | Hubli-Dharwad   |   79 |   68 |
|   34 | Dewas           |   83 |   81 |
|   35 | Gwalior         |  126 |  109 |
|   36 | Akola           |  111 |   64 |
|   37 | Amravati        |  102 |   66 |
|   38 | Badlapur        |  160 |   94 |
|   39 | Chandrapur      |  118 |  104 |
|   40 | Greater Mumbai  |  161 |  106 |
|   41 | Jalgaon         |   70 |   59 |
|   42 | Jalna           |   99 |   93 |
|   43 | Kolhapur        |   89 |   81 |
|   44 | Latur           |   82 |   57 |
|   45 | Nagpur          |  100 |   68 |
|   46 | Nashik          |   82 |   59 |
|   47 | Pune            |  102 |   85 |
|   48 | Sangli          |   87 |   60 |
|   49 | Solapur         |   81 |   60 |
|   50 | Thane           |  138 |  130 |
|   51 | Ulhasnagar      |  153 |   77 |
|   52 | Dimapur         |  142 |   84 |
|   53 | Kohima          |  127 |   69 |
|   54 | Balasore        |   84 |   74 |
|   55 | Cuttack         |   93 |   90 |
|   56 | Talcher         |  113 |   81 |
|   57 | Amritsar        |  189 |  118 |
|   58 | Dera Baba Nanak |   79 |   71 |
|   59 | Jalandhar       |  178 |  130 |
|   60 | Khanna          |  142 |  106 |
|   61 | Ludhiana        |  168 |  150 |
|   62 | MandiGobindgarh |  148 |  122 |
|   63 | NayaNangal      |   87 |   70 |
|   64 | Jaipur          |  172 |  126 |
|   65 | Alwar           |  152 |  112 |
|   66 | Jodhpur         |  189 |  161 |

|   67 | Kota        |   139 |   112 |
|------|-------------|-------|-------|
|   68 | Udaipur     |   127 |   122 |
|   69 | Chennai     |    66 |    57 |
|   70 | Madurai     |    72 |    53 |
|   71 | Trichy      |    88 |    45 |
|   72 | Tuticorin   |   123 |    67 |
|   73 | Hyderabad   |   110 |    88 |
|   74 | Sangareddy  |    85 |    83 |
|   75 | Agra        |   202 |   146 |
|   76 | Allahabad   |   169 |   119 |
|   77 | Ghaziabad   |   285 |   216 |
|   78 | Kanpur      |   227 |   170 |
|   79 | Lucknow     |   253 |   148 |
|   80 | Varanasi    |   230 |   114 |
|   81 | Anpara      |   175 |   154 |
|   82 | Bareily     |   207 |   175 |
|   83 | Firozabad   |   247 |   137 |
|   84 | Gajraula    |   204 |   155 |
|   85 | Gorakpur    |   150 |   122 |
|   86 | Khurja      |   195 |   173 |
|   87 | Moradabad   |   222 |   155 |
|   88 | Noida       |   229 |   203 |
|   89 | Raebareli   |   145 |   112 |
|   90 | Dehradun    |   250 |   146 |
|   91 | Rishikesh   |   129 |   117 |
|   92 | Asansol     |   147 |   112 |
|   93 | Barrackpore |    86 |    85 |
|   94 | Howrah      |   139 |   125 |
|   95 | Kolkata     |   147 |   105 |