Lok Sabha Question No. 2746 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-12-14
Subject: Impact of Heavy Industries on Environment
Ministry: HEAVY INDUSTRIES
Asked by: Brijendra Singh

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HEAVY INDUSTRIES

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2746

ANSWERED ON 14.12.2021

## IMPACT OF HEAVY INDUSTRIES ON ENVIRONMENT

## 2746.  SHRI BRIJENDRA SINGH:

Will the Minister of HEAVY INDUSTRIES भारी उद्योग मंत्री be pleased to state:

(a) the details of contribution of key heavy industries, especially iron, chemicals, and cement towards pollution and emissions since 2014;

(b)  whether  the  Government  has  initiated  schemes  to  incentivise  heavy  industries  to  adopt sustainable technologies to reduce their environmental impact and if so, the details thereof;

(c) whether the response to the said schemes has achieved the set targets; and

(d) if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR HEAVY INDUSTRIES (SHRI KRISHAN PAL GURJAR)

(a): Since Industry is a State Subject, Ministry of Heavy Industries does not maintain any centralized  data  regarding  pollution  and  emission  due  to  Heavy  Industries.    The  notified standards  for  polluting  industries  are  enforced  by  State  Pollution  Control  Boards  (SPCBs)  / Pollution Control Committees (PCCs) in the consent to operate order issued under the Water Act and the Air Act, and disposal of hazardous wastes of such industries are handled under the Hazardous and other Wastes (Management and Transboundary Movement) Rules, 2016.

(b) to (d) : As per information received from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), as such there is no scheme to incentivise heavy industries to adopt sustainable technologies to reduce their environmental impact by CPCB/SPCBs/PCCs.  However,  highly polluting industries  have  to  provide  Effluent  Treatment  Plant  (ETP)  for  effluent  treatment  and  Air Pollution  Control  Devices  (APCDs)  to  control  source  emission  /  fugitive  dust  emission  to comply with effluent / emission standards /norms.  The units are encouraged to reduce their wastewater  generation  by  reuse/recycle  of  wastewater  and  use  of  best  available  technology. Sustainable technology assures that the cost of pollution control measures will remain within the affordability of the industrial units i.e. the annual Burden (AB) to Annual Turnover (AT) ratio.

However, this Ministry launched the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of (Hybrid &) Electric Vehicles in India (FAME India) Scheme in 2015 with an aim to reduce dependency on fossil fuel and to address issues of vehicular emissions.  At present, Phase-II of FAME India Scheme  is  being  implemented  for  a  period  of  5  years  w.e.f.   01 st April,  2019  with  a  total budgetary support of Rs. 10,000 crores.  This phase focusses on supporting electrification of public & shared transportation and aims to support, through subsidies, 7090 e-Buses, 5 lakh e-3 Wheelers, 55000 e-4 Wheeler Passenger Cars and 10 lakh e-2 Wheelers.  In addition, creation of  charging  infrastructure  is  also  supported  to  address  range  anxiety  among  users  of  electric vehicles.    Under  FAME  India  Phase  -  I,  about  2.8  lakh  hybrid  and  electric  vehicles  are supported by way of demand incentive amounting to Rs 359 crore (Approx.).  This has resulted in saving of approximately 95 million litres of fuel and reduction of about 236 million Kg of CO2  as  on  7 Dec,  2021.    The  FAME-II  scheme  has  currently  incentivized  about  176327 electric vehicles as on 07 Dec, 2021.