Lok Sabha Question No. 2378 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-12-18
Subject: Central Pollution Control Board
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT,  FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: Arvind Ganpat Sawant

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2378

TO BE ANSWERED ON 18.12.2023

## Central Pollution Control Board

## 2378.    SHRI ARVIND GANPAT SAWANT

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

- (a) the  measures  adopted  by  Central  Pollution  Control  Board  (CPCB)  for  Pollution Control in cities like Mumbai and Delhi;
- (b) weather the Government has laid down any policy glide path for industries in cities like Mumbai and Delhi, if so, the details thereof;
- (c) if not, the reasons therefor; and
- (d) Whether any policy is existing for compensation to be given to fisherman and tribals by Oil companies like ONGC whose crude oil gets spilled in the nearby areas of their projects at coastal lines of Mumbai?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER  OF  STATE  IN  THE  MINISTRY  OF  ENVIRONMENT,  FOREST  AND CLIMATE CHANGE (SHRI ASHWINI KUMAR CHOUBEY)

- (a) to (c):

National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) has been launched in January, 2019 which is a long-term, time-bound national level strategy for prevention, control and abatement of air pollution. Under NCAP, it has been envisaged to achieve targets of 20 to 30% reduction in Particulate Matter concentrations by 2024 in 131 cities of 24 States/UTs with respect to base year 2017. Subsequently, the target has been revised to achieve up to 40% reduction or achieve National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) in terms PM concentrations by 2025-26.

City  Action  Plans  have  been  prepared  by  Delhi  and  Mumbai  UA  under  NCAP  which include specific measures to address air pollution in sectors namely, Vehicles, Construction  &  Demolition  Waste,  Road  Dust  Management,  Biomass  burning  and Industries  to  improve  the  air  quality.  State  level  Steering  and  Monitoring  Committees, and District/City level Monitoring and Implementation Committees have been constituted for monitoring and implementation of City Action Plans. Progress of implementation of City Action Plans is monitored through PRANA portal maintained by Central Pollution Control Board.

Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) notified Standards for Emission  or  Discharge  of  Environmental  Pollutants  from  various  Industries  for  79 industrial sectors under Environment Protection Act, 1986.

CPCB  has  formulated  methodology  for  categorization  of  industries  into  red,  orange, green  and  white,  and  directed  all  SPCBs/PCCs,  vide  letter  dated  07.03.2016  based  on pollution potential of the industrial sector for adoption by concerned SPCB/PCCs. State Pollution Control Boards (SPCBs)/Pollution Control Committees (PCCs) issue consent to establish/consent to operate and authorization to the industries in the States. SPCBs/PCCs monitor  the  compliance  of  industrial  emissions/effluent  discharges  and  other  activities according to the prescribed standards.

For strengthening monitoring mechanism  and effective compliance through selfregulatory  mechanism,  CPCB  directed  all  17  categories  of  highly  polluting  industries, GPIs  of  Ganga  basin,  CETPs,  biomedical  waste  management  facilities  and  common hazardous  waste  facilities  to  install  Online  Continuous  Effluent/  Emission  Monitoring Systems (OCEMS) for constant vigil on pollution levels.

40  teams  have  been  deputed  by  CPCB  since  December  2021,  to  assist  CAQM,  for conducting incognito inspections of air polluting industries, C&D sites, DG sets in DelhiNCR to check  implementation  status  of  pollution  control  measures  and  compliance  of other  provisions  of the Air  (P&CP) Act,1981. A total of 16200 units/ entities/ projects have been inspected as on December 08, 2023.

CPCB has developed a mobile app i.e. SAMEER, where Real-time Ambient air quality data of various parameters including AQI is also given. Sameer app also facilitates the public in lodging of air pollution related complaints in NCR region and such complaints are assigned to various local agencies.

Maharashtra  Pollution  Control  Board  (MPCB)  has  taken  action  against  non-complying industrial  units  for  controlling  industrial  pollution  under  section-5  of  Environment (Protection) Action, 1986. Further, MPCB has issued severalguidelines for mitigation of air pollution to be implemented by Municipal Corporations and air quality is monitored in Mumbai and Air Quality Index (AQI) is published daily to take corrective actions.

## (d) :

Projects located in Coastal Regulation Zone are required to obtain clearance under CRZ Notification, 2019. Under the notification the projects are required to prepare Environment  Management  and  disaster  management  plan  /  national  oil  spill  disaster contingency  plan  for  protection  of  marine  environment  including  surrounding  fisher communities  and  other  local  communities.bSection-3  of  Environment  (Protection)  Act, 1986  confers  powers  to  Central  Government  to  take  all  such  measures  as  it  deems necessary  or  expedient  for  the  purpose  of  protecting  and  improving  the  quality  of  the environment and preventing controlling and abating environmental pollution.Indian Coast Guard (ICG) has established Pollution Response Team (PRT) at Mumbai, Chennai, Port Blair and Vadinar (Gujarat) to combat oil spill incidents. Three pollution response vessels are also commissioned at Porbandar, Mumbai and Vizag to augment pollution response efforts.

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