Lok Sabha Question No. 180 (STARRED), answered on 2021-02-12
Subject: National Clean Air Programme
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT,  FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: M.K. Vishnu Prasad

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION N0. 180

TO BE ANSWERED ON 12.02.2021

## National Clean Air Programme

*180. Dr. VISHNU PRASAD M.K.:

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

- (a)   whether the Government has launched National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) to reduce air  pollution  in  the  country  and  if  so,  the  number  of  non-attainment  cities  that  have formally launched the NCAP;
- (b)  the status of tangible progress achieved in these cities;
- (c) whether it is a fact that the NCAP has not yet been implemented in some cities and if so, if so, the reasons therefor;
- (d) whether the Government proposes to extend the programme to more cities in near future and if so, the details thereof;
- (e) whether the Government proposes to increase the budget to align with the ambitions/objectives/targets under the programme; and
- (f)   if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE (SHRI PRAKASH JAVADEKAR)

- (a) to (f): A statement is laid on the Table of the House.

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## Statement referred to in reply to Lok Sabha Starred Question No. 180 due for reply on 12.02.2021 regarding 'National Clean Air Programme' by Dr. VISHNU PRASAD M.K., Hon'ble Member of Parliament

(a) The Government has launched National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) to reduce air pollution in a comprehensive manner with targets to achieve 20% to 30% reduction in PM10 and  PM2.5  levels  by  the  year  2024  from  2017  levels.  The  concerned  Ministries  such  as Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Ministry of Power, Ministry of Road & Transport, Ministry  of  Petroleum  and  Natural  Gas  and  Ministry  of  Agriculture  and  Farmers  Welfare, State Governments, Research Institutes etc. are various stakeholders in this effort.

Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has identified 122 non-attainment cities based on air pollution levels exceeding National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) continuously during 2014-2018. The list of these non-attainment cities is annexed at Annexure-I.

(b), (c) and (d)  Out  of  122  non-attainment  cities,  city  action  plans  for  111  cities  have  been prepared  and  approvedby  CPCB  for  implementation.  These  action  plans  focus  on  city specific  short/medium/long  term  actions  to  control  air  pollution  from  sources  such  as vehicular  emission,  road  dust,  burning  of  biomass/crop/garbage/Municipal  Solid  Waste, construction activities, industrial emission, etc.

Apart from source specific actions, city action plans also include actions such as capacity and infrastructure  building  of  urban  local  bodies,  source  identification  studies,  emergency response system and public outreach.

Progress made on various components inter-alia includes Installation and commissioning of Continuous  Ambient  Air  Quality  Monitoring  Stations  (CAAQMS),  Mechanical  street sweeper,  Mobile  Enforcement  Unit,  Public  awareness  and  capacity  building  activities,  etc. The tangible progress made under the NCAP is given at Annexure-II.

National  and  State  level  committees  have  been  constituted  namely  Steering  Committee, Monitoring Committee and Implementation Committee for overall guidance and direction for effective  implementation  of  NCAP,  reviewing  proposed  interventions,  and  to  evaluate  the progress made.

Monitoring network is expanded continuously and list of non-attainment cities updated every year based on criteria defined by Central Pollution Control Board. New non-attainment cities, if any, are included under NCAP.

In  addition,  Government  has  also  taken  several  measures  to  help  in  reducing  air  pollution across the country. These include implementation of BS VI norms, expansion of metro rail network in many cities, e-mobility, Ujjwala Yojna, Swach Bharat Mission, etc. The various measures taken by Central Government to curb air pollution is given at Annexure III.

(e) and (f) Central Government has made provisions of following funds specifically for air pollution mitigation:

- (i) Rs. 336.8 crore (Rs. 111 crores in the year 2020-21, Rs. 224.74 Crores in 2019-20 and Rs. 1.06 Crore in the year 2018-19) have been sanctioned to non-attainment cities under NCAP for initiating actions such as expansion of monitoring network, construction and demolition waste management facilities, non-motorised transport infrastructure, green buffers, mechanical street sweepers, composting units etc.
- (ii) ₹2200 crores have been released in the Budget of FY 2020-21 to tackle the burgeoning problem of air pollution. Further, an amount of Rs. 2,217 crores has been allocated for 42 urban centres with a million-plus population in this budget for improvement of air quality.
- (iii) Rs. 7365.82 Crores was allocated for Solid Waste Management under Urban Swachh Bharat Mission from 2014-2019.
- (iv) A provision of Rs. 1,41,678 crores over a period of 5 years from 2021-2026 has been made for Urban Swachh Bharat Mission 2.0 with a focus on air pollution reduction by effectively managing  waste  from  construction-and-demolition activities and bioremediation of all legacy dump sites.
- (v) Under Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) scheme Rs. 1436 Crore have been allocated for non-motorised urban transport and Rs. 1768 Crores for green spaces and parks.
- (vi) ₹  1726.67  crores  have  been  released  for  crop  residue  management  in  the  States  of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and NCT of Delhi, during the year 2018-21.

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ANNEXURE-I

ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (a)  OF  THE  LOK  SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 180 DUE FOR ANSWER ON 12.02.2021 REGARDING " NATIONAL CLEAN AIR PROGRAMME" RAISED BY Dr. VISHNU PRASAD M.K., HON'BLE MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT

## List of 122 non-attainment cities under National Clean Air Programme

|   1. | Anantapur        |   44. | Bhopal          |   87. | Alwar       |
|------|------------------|-------|-----------------|-------|-------------|
|    2 | Chitoor          |    45 | Dewas           |    88 | Jaipur      |
|    3 | Eluru            |    46 | Gwalior         |    89 | Jodhpur     |
|    4 | Guntur           |    47 | Indore          |    90 | Kota        |
|    5 | Kadapa           |    48 | Sagar           |    91 | Udaipur     |
|    6 | Kurnool          |    49 | Ujjain          |    92 | Trichy      |
|    7 | Nellore          |    50 | Akola           |    93 | Tuticorin   |
|    8 | Ongole           |    51 | Amravati        |    94 | Hyderabad   |
|    9 | Rajahmundry      |    52 | Aurangabad      |    95 | Nalgonda    |
|   10 | Srikakulam       |    53 | Badlapur        |    96 | Patencheru  |
|   11 | Vijaywada        |    54 | Chandrapur      |    97 | Sangareddy  |
|   12 | Vishakhapatnam   |    55 | Jalgaon         |    98 | Agra        |
|   13 | Vizianagaram     |    56 | Jalna           |    99 | Allahabad   |
|   14 | Guwahati         |    57 | Kolhapur        |   100 | Anpara      |
|   15 | Nagaon           |    58 | Latur           |   101 | Bareily     |
|   16 | Nalbari          |    59 | Mumbai          |   102 | Firozabad   |
|   17 | Sibsagar         |    60 | Nagpur          |   103 | Gajraula    |
|   18 | Silcher          |    61 | Nashik          |   104 | Ghaziabad   |
|   19 | Gaya             |    62 | Navi Mumbai     |   105 | Jhansi      |
|   20 | Muzzaffarpur#    |    63 | Pune            |   106 | Kanpur      |
|   21 | Patna            |    64 | Sangli          |   107 | Khurja      |
|   22 | Chandigarh       |    65 | Solapur         |   108 | Lucknow     |
|   23 | DurgBhillainagar |    66 | Thane           |   109 | Moradabad   |
|   24 | Korba            |    67 | Ulhasnagar      |   110 | Noida       |
|   25 | Raipur           |    68 | Byrnihat        |   111 | Raebareli   |
|   26 | Delhi            |    69 | Dimapur         |   112 | Varanasi    |
|   27 | Ahmedabad        |    70 | Kohima          |   113 | Dehradun    |
|   28 | Surat            |    71 | Angul           |   114 | Kashipur    |
|   29 | Vadodara         |    72 | Balasore        |   115 | Rishikesh   |
|   30 | Baddi            |    73 | Bhubneshwar     |   116 | Asansol     |
|   31 | Damtal           |    74 | Cuttack         |   117 | Barrackpore |
|   32 | Kala Amb         |    75 | Kalinga Nagar   |   118 | Durgapur*   |
|   33 | Nalagarh         |    76 | Rourkela        |   119 | Haldia      |
|   34 | Paonta Sahib     |    77 | Talcher         |   120 | Howrah      |
|   35 | Parwanoo         |    78 | Amritsar        |   121 | Kolkata     |
|   36 | Sunder Nagar     |    79 | Dera Baba Nanak |   122 | Raniganj    |

|   37. | Jammu         |   80. | DeraBassi   |
|-------|---------------|-------|-------------|
|    38 | Srinagar      |    81 | Gobindgarh  |
|    39 | Dhanbad       |    82 | Jalandhar   |
|    40 | Bangalore     |    83 | Khanna      |
|    41 | Devangere     |    84 | Ludhiana    |
|    42 | Gulburga      |    85 | NayaNangal  |
|    43 | Hubli-Dharwad |    86 | Patiala     |

## ANNEXURE-II

ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (b) to (d) OF THE LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 180 DUE FOR ANSWER ON 12.02.2021 REGARDING " NATIONAL CLEAN AIR PROGRAMME" RAISED BY Dr. VISHNU PRASAD M.K., HON'BLE MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT

## The tangible progress made under the NCAP:

- i. City Action Plans
2.  Approved for implementation - 111 cities
3.  Awaited - 11 cities
- ii. Monitoring Network
5.  Manual stations - 805
6.  CAAQMS - 265
- iii. Source Apportionment Studies
8.  Completed - 14 Cities
9.  Work in progress - 66 cities
10.  At proposal stage - 40 cities
- iv. Public Grievance Redressal Portal
12.  Developed -82 cities
13.  In progress - 13 cities
14.  Dedicated grievance redressalhelpline numbers/web portal - 28 cities
- v. Emergency Response System
16.  Developed - 66 cities
17.  In progress - 37 cities
18.  Yet to commence - 8 cities
- vi. Project Monitoring Unit
20.  23 PMU established in all states
21.  Constituted steering Committee & Monitoring Committee in all states
22.  District Level Committee in SPCBs/PCCs - 104 cities

ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (b) to (d) OF THE LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 180 DUE FOR ANSWER ON 12.02.2021 REGARDING " NATIONAL CLEAN AIR PROGRAMME" RAISED BY Dr. VISHNU PRASAD M.K., HON'BLE MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT

## Measurestakenfor curbing air pollution:

## i. Vehicular Pollution Control

-  Leapfrogging from BS-IV to BS-VI norms for fuel and vehicles since April, 2020.
-  Network  of  Metro  rails  for  public  transport  are  enhanced  and  more cities are covered.
-  Development of Expressway and Highways are also reducing the fuel consumption and pollution.
-  Introduction of cleaner/alternate fuels like CNG, LPG, ethanol blending in petrol.
-  Faster  Adoption  and  Manufacturing  of  Electric  Vehicles  (FAME)  -2 scheme has been rolled out
-  Permit requirement for electric vehicles has been exempted.
-  Promotion of public transport and improvements in roads and building of more bridges to ease congestion on roads.

## ii. Industrial Pollution Control

-  Stringent  emission  norms  for  Coal  based  Thermal  Power  Plants (TPPs).
-  Pet coke and furnace oil have been banned as fuel in Delhi and NCR States.
-  Industrial units shifting to PNG.
-  Installation of on-line continuous monitoring devices in highly polluting industries.
-  Shifting of Brick kilns to zig-zag technology for reduction of pollution

## iii. Waste Management

-  Notifications  of  6  waste  management  rules  covering  solid  waste, plastic waste, e-waste, bio-medical waste, C&D waste and hazardous waste.
-  Setting up infrastructure such as waste processing plants.
-  Extended  Producer  Responsibility  (EPR)  for  plastic  and  e-waste management.
-  Ban on burning of biomass/garbage.

## iv. Road and Construction & Demolition Dust Control

-  Construction  &  Demolition  (C  &  D)  Waste  Management  Rules  were notified in 2016
-  Installation of C & D Waste Processing Plants
-  Installation  of mechanized road sweeping machines, water sprinklers etc.

## v. Crop Residue Management

-  Under Central Sector Scheme on 'Promotion of Agricultural Mechanization for in-situ management of Crop Residue in the States of  Punjab,  Haryana,  Uttar  Pradesh  and  NCT  of  Delhi',  agricultural machines  and  equipment  for  in-situ  crop  residue  management  are promoted  with  50%  subsidy  to  the  individual  farmers  and  80% subsidy for establishment of Custom Hiring Centres.

## vi. Monitoring of Air Quality

-  Expansion of air quality monitoring network under National Air Quality Monitoring Programme (NAMP)
-  Implementation  of  Air  Quality  Early  Warning  System  for  Delhi.  The system provides alerts for taking timely actions.