Lok Sabha Question No. 1764 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2024-12-05
Subject: Management of Garbage Waste
Ministry: HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS
Asked by: Shri Satpal Brahamchari

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1764

TO BE ANSWERED ON DECEMBER 05, 2024

## MANAGEMENT OF GARBAGE WASTE

## NO. 1764.  SHRI SATPAL BRAHAMCHARI:

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

- (a) whether  the  management  of  garbage  waste  and  sewage  is becoming a serious issue in the urban areas of the country;
- (b) if so, the details thereof;
- (c) the steps taken/being taken by the Government in this regard;
- (d) whether the Government is providing any financial and technical assistance  to  the  States  for  setting  up  of  garbage  and  sewage
- treatment plants;
- (e) if  so,  the  details  thereof,  year  and  city-wise  particularly  for Sonipat Lok Sabha Constituency during the last three years and the current year;
- (f) whether  the  Government  has  assessed/proposes  to  assess  the progress of works done by the States in this regard; and
- (g)
- if so, the details thereof, State/district-wise?

## ANSWER

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

(a) to (c): 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.

(d) & (e) : 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  SBM-U  (from  02.10.2014  to  30.09.2021)  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 Haryana 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)     |           287.08 |          186.01 |
|        2 | SBM-U 2.0 (2021 - 2026) |           645.7  |           13.46 |

Details  of  ULB-wise  Solid  Waste  plants  in  Haryana  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  ₹32,022 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.

The  details  of  CS  funds  released  under  AMRUT  and  AMRUT  2.0  to  the State of Haryana during last three years and current year is as under:

| S.   |         | Fund released (₹ in crores)   | Fund released (₹ in crores)   | Fund released (₹ in crores)   | Fund released (₹ in crores)   |
|------|---------|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|
| No.  | State   | 2021-22                       | 2022-23                       | 2023-24                       | 2024-25                       |
| 1    | Haryana | 147.18                        | 0.00                          | 149.43                        | 0.00                          |

As  reported  by  the  states  on  AMRUT  Portal,  a  total  number  of  05 sewerage and septage management project worth ₹99.2 crore have been grounded in Sonipat Lok Sabha Constituency under AMRUT and all these projects have been completed .

(f)&(g):  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.

*****