Lok Sabha Question No. 2797 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2024-12-12
Subject: Setting up Waste and Sewage Water Treatment Plants
Ministry: HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS
Asked by: Smt. Vijaylakshmi Devi, Shri Saumitra Khan

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2797

TO BE ANSWERED ON DECEMBER 12, 2024

## SETTING UP WASTE AND SEWAGE WATER TREATMENT PLANTS

NO. 2797.  SMT. VIJAYLAKSHMI DEVI: SHRI SAUMITRA KHAN

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

- (a) whether  the  garbage,  waste  and  sewage  management  is  becoming  a severe issue in urban areas of the country;
- (b) if  so,  the  details  thereof  and  the  steps  taken/being  taken  by  the
- Government in this regard;
- (c) whether the Government provides financial and technical assistance to the  States  for  setting  up  waste  and  sewage  water  treatment  plants during the last three years and the current year;
- (d) if so, the details thereof, year and city-wise, particularly for the cities of Siwan Parliamentary Constituency; and
- (e) whether  the  Government  has  undertaken/proposes  to  undertake  an assessment of the progress made by the States in this regard and if so, the details thereof, State-wise?

## ANSWER

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

(a)  &  (b):  To  deal  with  various  issues  concerning  garbage,  waste  and sewage, Government has launched the Swachh Bharat Mission -Urban (SBM-U) on October 2, 2014 and the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) in 500 cities on June 25, 2015.

To  carry  forward  the  work  done  on  ground  in  Phase-I,  Swachh Bharat  Mission-Urban  (SBM-U)  2.0  has  been  launched  on  October  1 st , 2021 for a period of five years, up to October 1, 2026, with a vision of achieving  safe  sanitation  and  scientific  processing  of  municipal  solid waste in all cities.

AMRUT 2.0 has been launched on 1 st  October 2021 to make cities 'self-reliant'  and  'water  secure'.  AMRUT  2.0  will  extend  the  ease  of living by up-scaling universal coverage in water supply from 500 cities to all statutory towns in the country.

(c)  &  (d)  :  Central  Share  (CS)  assistance  under  SBM-U  is  given  to States/UTs for establishing of various types of MSW management plants like, Waste-to-Compost (WtC), Waste-to-Energy (WtE), Bio-methanation, Material Recovery Facilities (MRF) and legacy waste dumpsites remediation, etc. ₹7,365.82 crores was allocated under SWM component in  SBMU  (from  02.10.2014  to  3 0 .09.2021)  and  ₹10,930.12 crores under SBM-U 2.0 (from 01.10.2021 to 01.10.2026).

Under SBM-U and SBM-U 2.0 Central Share of funds are released to the States/UTs and not to the cities. Hence, city-wise details of funds are not maintained at MoHUA. The details of funds allocated and release to the State of Bihar under SBM-U and SBM-U 2.0 is as under:

( ₹ in crores)

|   S. No. | SBM Phase             |   Fund allocated |   Fund released |
|----------|-----------------------|------------------|-----------------|
|        1 | SBM-U (2014-2021)     |           556.68 |          385.95 |
|        2 | SBM-U 2.0 (2021-2026) |          1204.8  |          209.47 |

Details of ULB-wise  Solid Waste  plants in Bihar are available at https://sbmurban.org/swachh-bharat-mission-progess

Under sewerage and septage management sector of AMRUT, 888 projects worth  ₹34,488 crore  have  been  grounded  of  which  work  worth  ₹3 2,022 crore  have  been  physically  executed.  Under  AMRUT  2.0,  Sewerage  and septage  management  sector,  so  far  595 projects  worth  ₹68 , 198 crore have been approved by Apex Committee at MoHUA.

Under AMRUT, 02 water supply project worth ₹ 104.92 crore and 01 park and  green  spaces  project  worth  ₹0.63  crore  have  been  grounded  and completed in Siwan constituency of Bihar.

Under AMRUT 2.0, 01 water supply project worth ₹105.24 crore and 01 sewerage  and  septage  management  project  worth  ₹372.59  crore  have been approved for Siwan constituency, Bihar.

(e) : Monitoring of Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban (SBM-U) is done through review  at  various  levels  of  the  information  submitted  by  States/Union Territories on progress of SBM-U and through field visits. Additionally, the 'Swachh  Survekshan'  survey  conducted  annually  through  third  party assessment to evaluate the cleanliness status and progress in implementation of SBM-U in cities.

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