Lok Sabha Question No. 4476 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-03-27
Subject: Used Water Management and Solid Waste Management Plants under SBM-U 2.0
Ministry: HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS
Asked by: Shri B K Parthasarathi

## MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4476 TO BE ANSWERED ON MARCH 27, 2025

## USED WATER MANAGEMENT AND SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT PLANTS

## UNDER SBM-U 2.0

## NO. 4476.  SHRI B K PARTHASARATHI:

Will the Minister for HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

- (a) the  details  of  the  number  of  used  water  management  plants  and solid  waste  management  plants  approved  and  established  under Swachh  Bharat  Mission-Urban  (SBM-U)  2.0,  State  and  year-wise; and
- (b) the details of the funds sanctioned and disbursed for establishing such plants, State and year-wise?

## ANSWER THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS (SHRI TOKHAN SAHU)

(a) & (b): To  carry  forward  the  progress  made  under  Swachh  Bharat Mission-Urban, Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0 has been launched on 1 st 2021  with  a  vision of achieving  safe  sanitation, scientific management  of all fractions of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) and remediation of legacy waste dumpsites. Used Water Management (UWM) is also  a  new  component  under  SBM-U  2.0  to  holistically  deal  with  fecal sludge  &  septage  in  cities  having  less  than  1  lakh  population  as  per census 2011.

Funds under SBM-U are allocated for the entire mission period and not on yearly basis. Further under SBM-U, Central Share of funds are released to the States/Uts on the basis of demand made by States/Uts in the form of complete  proposals  duly  approved  by  State  Level  Technical  Committee (SLTC) which are further transmitted to ULBs by the concerned State/UT Govt. as per their action plan. Further Central Assistance/Grants-in-aids up to  50%  of  the  gap  funding  subject  to  maximum  of  30%  of  project  cost approved by State High Power  Committee  (SHPC)  are provided to States/Union Territories for setting up of Solid Waste Management plants and Used Water management plants under Swachh Bharat Mission - Urban (SBM-U).

Under Solid Waste Management (SWM) Component of SBM-U 2.0, Central Financial Assistance (CFA) is provided for setting up of waste processing facilities  such  as  Material  Recovery  Facilities  (MRFs),  transfer  stations, composting  plants,  Construction  and  Demolition  (C&D)  and  waste  to energy  plants  including  waste  to  electricity,  bio-methanation  plants  etc. As  of  now,  7766  solid  waste  processing  facilities  has  been  established. Further,  Government  of  India  has  allocated  Rs.  10,930.12  crores  under SWM component of SBM-U 2.0. Out of which projects having central share of  Rs.  8,662.28  crores  have  been  approved  and  Rs.  1999.96  crores  has been claimed by the States/UTs.

Under  UWM  component  CFA  is  provided  for  Sewage  Treatment  Plants (STPs)/ STP-cum-Fecal Sludge Treatment plants FSTP; laying Interception and Diversion (l&D) structures include provision of pumping stations and pumping  main/gravity  main  upto  STP,  procuring  adequate  numbers  of septic tank desludging equipments etc. As of now, 2086 used water waste processing  facilities  has  been  established.  Government  of  India  has allocated Rs. 15,926.55 crores under SWM component of SBM-U 2.0. Out of which  projects  having  central  share  of  Rs.  13,559.36  crores  have  been approved and Rs.  3131.99 crores have been claimed by the States/UTs.

Details  of  all  the  projects  under  SBM-U  reported  by  States/UTs  are available  at  SBM-U,  MoHUA  portal  https://sbmurban.org/swachh-bharatmission-progess.