Lok Sabha Question No. 1976 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-07-30
Subject: Pollution from Industrial Waste
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT,  FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: Sanjay Bhatia

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

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1976 TO BE ANSWERED ON 30.07.2021

## Pollution from Industrial Waste

1976.   SHRI SANJAY BHATIA:

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

- (a) the  steps  taken  by  the  Government  to  address  the  increasing  levels  of  civic  and industrial  waste  arising  due  to  the  increasing  population  in  the  country,  rapid urbanization and industrialization; and
- (b) the steps taken to mitigate the far-reaching effects of urban pollution?

## ANSWER

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

(a) & (b) For prevention and control of industrial pollution, the Government has taken various steps  like  notification  of  industry  specific  emission  and  effluent  standards  under  the Environment  (Protection)  Rules,  1986  and  their  enforcement  through  consent  mechanism, regular  monitoring,  issuance  of  directions  for    installation  of  online  effluent  and  emission monitoring  systems  for  continuous  check  on  pollution  levels,  categorization  of  industries based on their pollution potential, issuance of various directions under Water (Prevention and Control  of  Pollution)  Act,  1974,  Air  (Prevention  and  Control  of  Pollution)  Act,  1981  and Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, etc.

The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has identified 17 categories of highly polluting  industries,  and  is  carrying  out  inspection  of  these  industries  based  on  computer generated alerts  from  Online  Continuous Effluent/ Emission Monitoring System (OCEMS) since 2016-17. Industries for inspection are selected on the basis of Short Message Service (SMS) alerts generated from the online monitoring systems.

There are total 4,247 highly polluting 17-categories of industries in the country. Out of which, 3,535 industries have installed OCEMS. State wise status of installation of OCEMS in 17 categories of highly polluting industries, is given at Annexure-I .

Further,  in  compliance  to  NGT  order  non-compliances observed during  compliance verification / inspection are subjected to environmental compensation with the provision of NGT Act 2010 by CPCB/SPCBs/ PCCs

In  order  to  supplement  the  efforts  of  the  State  Governments/Union  Territories  and Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) in managing the civic waste/ municipal solid waste (MSW), the Government of India launched Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban) on 2nd October 2014 with the objective to make entire urban India Open Defecation Free (ODF) and to achieve 100 per cent scientific management of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) in all statutory towns/ cities of the country. Under Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), Additional Central Assistance (ACA) of 35 per cent as Viability Gap Funding (VGF) is released to the States for construction of waste management facilities i.e., Material Recovery facilities (MRF), Waste to Compost facilities, integrated  solid  waste  management  facilities,  Waste  to  Energy  facilities,  Construction  and Demolition (C&D) waste facility and  remediation of legacy waste across the country.

MoEF&CC    is  implementing  Environment  Education,  Awareness  and  Training scheme  with  the  objective  to  promote  environmental  awareness  among  all  sectors  of  the society  and  to  mobilize  people's  participation  for  conservation  of  environment,  Under  the National Green Corps (NGC) Programme of the Ministry , about one lakh schools have been identified  as  Eco  -  clubs,  wherein,  nearly  thirty  lakh  students  are  actively  participating  in various  environment  protection  and  conservation  activities,  including  the  issues  related  to urban pollution.

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Annexure - I referred in reply to the Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 1976  due for answer on 30.07.2021  regarding 'Pollution from Industrial Waste '

| State-wise Status of Installation   | State-wise Status of Installation   | State-wise Status of Installation                  | State-wise Status of Installation                           |
|-------------------------------------|-------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------|
| Sl. No.                             | State/UT                            | Total no. of targeted units for OCEMS installation | No. of units installed OCEMS and connected with CPCB server |
| 1                                   | Andaman &Nicobar                    | 0                                                  | 0                                                           |
| 2                                   | Andhra Pradesh                      | 262                                                | 238                                                         |
| 3                                   | Arunachal Pradesh                   | 0                                                  | 0                                                           |
| 4                                   | Assam                               | 56                                                 | 30                                                          |
| 5                                   | Bihar                               | 41                                                 | 34                                                          |
| 6                                   | Chandigarh                          | 0                                                  | 0                                                           |
| 7                                   | Chhattisgarh                        | 183                                                | 174                                                         |
| 8                                   | Daman &Diu                          | 3                                                  | 3                                                           |
| 9                                   | Delhi                               | 5                                                  | 4                                                           |
| 10                                  | Goa                                 | 13                                                 | 11                                                          |
| 11                                  | Gujarat                             | 347                                                | 308                                                         |
| 12                                  | Haryana                             | 119                                                | 98                                                          |
| 13                                  | Himachal Pradesh                    | 23                                                 | 20                                                          |
| 14                                  | Jammu &Kashmir                      | 32                                                 | 25                                                          |
| 15                                  | Jharkhand                           | 140                                                | 78                                                          |
| 16                                  | Karnataka                           | 266                                                | 213                                                         |
| 17                                  | Kerala                              | 35                                                 | 22                                                          |
| 18                                  | Lakshadweep                         | 0                                                  | 0                                                           |
| 19                                  | Madhya Pradesh                      | 101                                                | 91                                                          |
| 20                                  | Maharashtra                         | 595                                                | 436                                                         |
| 21                                  | Manipur                             | 0                                                  | 0                                                           |
| 22                                  | Meghalaya                           | 26                                                 | 20                                                          |
| 23                                  | Mizoram                             | 1                                                  | 0                                                           |
| 24                                  | Nagaland                            | 0                                                  | 0                                                           |
| 25                                  | Odisha                              | 151                                                | 133                                                         |
| 26                                  | Puducherry                          | 7                                                  | 4                                                           |
| 27                                  | Punjab                              | 97                                                 | 75                                                          |
| 28                                  | Rajasthan                           | 151                                                | 130                                                         |
| 29                                  | Sikkim                              | 2                                                  | 2                                                           |
| 30                                  | Tamil Nadu                          | 227                                                | 203                                                         |
| 31                                  | Telangana                           | 368                                                | 321                                                         |
| 32                                  | Tripura                             | 12                                                 | 4                                                           |
| 33                                  | Uttar Pradesh                       | 777                                                | 688                                                         |
| 34                                  | Uttarakhand                         | 59                                                 | 50                                                          |
| 35                                  | West Bengal                         | 148                                                | 120                                                         |
|                                     | Total                               | 4247                                               | 3535                                                        |