Lok Sabha Question No. 1921 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-07-28
Subject: Sewage Treatment Plants
Ministry: HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS
Asked by: D. M. Kathir Anand, Anurag Sharma

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1921

TO BE ANSWERED ON JULY 28, 2022

## SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS

NO\_ 1921. SHRI DM. KATHIR ANAND:

## SHRI ANURAG SHARMA:

Will Minister of AND URBAN AFFAIRS be  pleased to the state:

- (a) whether the Government has constructed Sewage Treatment Plants under Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) Scheme;
- Uttar Pradesh;
- (b) if so, the details thereof, State-wise including Tamil Nadu and
- whether the Government has   given any financial support to corporations and municipal   corporations in Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh under AMRUT for the establishment of sewage treatment plants, particularly in Vellore and Jhansi Parliamentary Constituencies; city
- (d)
- if so, the details thereof; and
- (e) the steps taken by the Government to fund the industrial units at Tirupattur Vaniyambadi and Ambur, Vellore, Gudiyattam, Ranipet etc: in Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS

(SHRI KAUSHAL KISHORE)

(a)& (b): Sanitation is a State subject and function of its Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) and it is the responsibility of Statel ULBs to plan, design, execute and operate sanitation projects in the urban areas of the country-

Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs  supplements the efforts of the Statesl ULBs in providing infrastructure for basic services such as sewerage infrastructure including Sewage Treatment Plants (STPs) in urban areas through its various flagship Missionsl Schemes. The Government has launched Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) on June, 2015 in 500 Mission cities. Augmentation, rehabilitation existing STPs and construction of new STP is one of the admissible components under the Mission:

Under AMRUT {32,456 crore (42%) has been allocated to sewerage and septage projects and so far, 282 STPs with a total capacity of 6,246 Million Litres Per Day (MLD) have been taken up: Of this, 128 STPs with a total capacity of 2,740.7 MLD have already been  completed: The State-wise details are at ANNEXURE

(c)& (d): Under AMRUT, projects have been selected, appraised, approved and implemented by the concerned Statesl Union Territories (UT) ULBs as per their Iocal conditionsl constraints and the requirement including establishment of sewage treatment plants:

In Jhansi Parliamentary constituency of Uttar Pradesh, Jhansi and Lalitpur ULBs are covered under AMRUT. No sewage treatment plant has been taken up by the State in Jhansi Parliamentary constituency of Uttar Pradesh.

In Vellore Parliamentary constituency of Tamil Nadu, two ULBs namely Ambur and Vellore are covered under AMRUT: One STP in each city has been taken up by the State in these cities: Details of STP projects are as below:

| S.No   | City    | Title                              |   Project Cost (in % | Status               | Type of STP project              |   Treatment capacity to be added (MLD) |
|--------|---------|------------------------------------|----------------------|----------------------|----------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
|        | Ambur   | Underground Sewerage               |               165.55 | Under Implementation | New Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) |                                  16.71 |
|        | Vellore | Underground Sewerage Phase II Area |               343.51 | Under Implementation | Augmentati on of Existing STP    |                                   2.5  |

- (e): Under AMRUT, fund are not released to any industrial units:

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ANNEXURE REFERRED To IN REPLY PART (b) OF UNSTARRED QUESTION DUE FOR ANSWER IN THE LOK SABHA ON 28 JULY, 2022.

## State\_wise\_Sewage\_Treatment Plants (STPs) under AMRUT

| S.No        | State             | STP Completed   | STP Completed     | STP Under Progress   | STP Under Progress   | Total   | Total             |
|-------------|-------------------|-----------------|-------------------|----------------------|----------------------|---------|-------------------|
| S.No        | State             | No.             | Capacity (in MLD) | No.                  | Capacity (in MLD)    | No.     | Capacity (in MLD) |
|             | Andhra Pradesh    |                 | 0                 | 22                   | 187                  | 22      | 187               |
| 2           | Arunachal Pradesh |                 |                   |                      | 3                    |         | 3                 |
| 3           | Chhattisgarh      | 2               | 31.2              | 2                    | 232                  | 4       | 263.2             |
| 4           | Daman and Diu     | 1               | 4                 | 0                    |                      | 1       | 4                 |
| 5           | Gujarat           | 30              | 1437.5            | 10                   | 241.5                | 40      | 1679              |
| 6           | Haryana           |                 | 112               | 7                    | 144                  | 22      | 256               |
| 7           | Himachal Pradesh  | 0               | 0                 | 2                    | 20.9                 | 2       | 20.9              |
| 8           | Jammu & Kashmir   | 1               | 4                 | 1                    | 2                    | 2       | 6                 |
| 9           | Jharkhand         | 0               |                   | 1                    | 50                   | 1       | 50                |
| 10          | Karnataka         | 19              | 187               | 4                    | 85                   | 23      | 272               |
| 11          | Kerala            | 1               | 5                 | 9                    | 34.97                | 10      | 39.97             |
| 12          | Madhya Pradesh    | 20              | 493               | 30                   | 466.75               | 50      | 959.75            |
|             | Maharashtra       | 2               | 50                | 23                   | 931.5                | 25      | 981.5             |
| 14          | Meghalaya         | 0               | 0                 | 1                    | 1.65                 | 1       | 1.65              |
| 15          | Odisha            | 1               |                   | 0                    |                      | 1       |                   |
| 16          | Punjab            | 3               | 64                | 5                    | 402                  | 8       | 466               |
| 17          | Rajasthan         | 22              | 88                | 14                   | 37                   | 36      | 125               |
| 18          | Tamil Nadu        | 4               | 114               | 8                    | 335.82               | 12      | 449.82            |
| 19          | Telangana         | 2               |                   | 0                    |                      | 2       | 18                |
| 20          | Uttar Pradesh     | 5               | 132               | 9                    | 276                  | 14      | 408               |
|             | Uttarakhand       | 0               | 0                 | 4                    | 49.45                | 4       | 49.45             |
| 22          | West Bengal       | 0               |                   | 1                    | 4.3                  |         | 4.3               |
| Grand Total |                   | 128             | 2740.7            | 154                  | 3504.84              | 282     | 6245.54           |

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