Lok Sabha Question No. 182 (STARRED), answered on 2026-02-12
Subject: Solid Waste and Effluent Processing Capacity
Ministry: HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS
Asked by: Shri Ashok Kumar Rawat, Smt. D K Aruna

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS

## LOK SABHA

## STARRED QUESTION NO. 182 TO BE ANSWERED ON FEBRUARY 12, 2026

## SOLID WASTE AND EFFLUENT PROCESSING CAPACITY

NO. 182. SHRI ASHOK KUMAR RAWAT: SMT. D K ARUNA:

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

- (a)  the solid waste and effluent processing capacity added in cities across the country during the last five years;
- (b)  the  specific  steps  taken/being  taken  by  the  Government  to  bridge  the existing  gaps  in  door-to-door  waste  collection  and  its  segregation  at source;
- (c)  whether any Waste-to-Energy or Bio-Methanation projects have been commissioned during the said period and if so, the details thereof, State/UT-
- wise; and
- (d)  the details of the support provided to Urban  Local Bodies for the implementation of scientific waste management practices, State/UT-wise?

## ANSWER THE MINISTER OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS (SHRI MANOHAR LAL)

- (a) to (d): A statement is laid on the Table of the House.

STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO.  182  FOR  12.02.2026  REGARDING  'SOLID  WASTE  AND  EFFLUENT PROCESSING CAPACITY'

(a) & (b) : Government of India launched SBM-U 2.0 on October 1, 2021 for a period of five years with a vision of achieving Garbage Free Status for all cities  through  100%  source  segregation,  door  to  door  collection  and scientific  management of all fractions of waste including safe disposal in scientific landfills and remediation of all legacy dumpsites.

As reported by States/UTs on Swachhattam portal, 97 percent wards have achieved 100 percent door-to-door-collection, 88 percent wards have achieved  100  percent  segregation  of  municipal  solid  waste.  A  total  of 1,62,293  ton  per  day  (TPD)  of  Municipal  Solid  Waste  is  generated  in  the urban  areas  of  the  country,  out  of  which  1,32,514  TPD  is  processed  i.e. against  16  percent  waste  processing  in  2014,  the  current  processing capacity has increased to 81.65 percent by setting up of waste processing facilities  such  as  Material  Recovery  Facilities  (MRFs),  transfer  stations, composting  plants,  Construction  and  Demolition  (C&D)  waste  plants  and waste  to  energy  plants  including  waste  to  electricity,  bio-methanation plants etc.

As per the information received from Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC), the total installed capacity of STPs in the country was 26,869 MLD as per the CPCB report titled 'National Inventory of Sewage Treatment Plants in India - 2021'. As per the Progress Reports submitted  by  State  Governments/UT  Administrations  or  SPCBs/PCCs  to Ministry  of  Jal  Shakti  till  December,  2024  the  total  installed  capacity  of STPs in the country is 36,048 MLD. In addition, there are 225 operational common Effluent Treatment Plants with a combined designed capacity of 2,245 MLD to treat industrial effluent.

(c): As reported by States/UTs on Swachhattam portal, presently 17 Wasteto-Electricity (WtE) plants of 20,050 TPD and 140 bio-methanation plant of 5,833  TPD  are  operational.  Further,  10,078  TPD  of  WtE  plants  and  18,655 TPD of bio-methanation (CBG) plants are under various stages of implementation.  State-wise  details  of  operational  WtE  plants  and  biomethanation plants is at Annexure - I and Annexure - II respectively.

(d):  To  support  the  States/ULBs  efforts  to  plan,  design  and  execute  the sanitation  and  solid  waste  management  projects  in  the  urban  areas, Ministry  of  Housing  &  Urban  Affairs  (MoHUA)  supplements  the  efforts  of States/UTs by providing policy directions, financial and technical support by sharing Manuals/Standard of Procedures (SoPs) on Solid Waste Management and  issue  various  Advisories  &  Guidelines  time  to  time  for  choosing appropriate technologies to manage solid waste. The advisories/guidelines/SoPs issued by MoHUA  are  available to all the States/UTs at https://sbmurban.org/technical-advisories.

Further,  under  SBM-U,  Central  Share  of  fund  is  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  transferred  to  ULBs  by  the  concerned  State/UT Govt. as per their action plan.

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Annexure - I

Statement  referred  to  the  reply  of  the  part  (c)  of  the  Lok  Sabha  Starred Question  No.  182  for  12.02.2026  regarding  'solid  waste  and  effluent processing capacity'

## State-wise details of operational WtE plants

| S. No.   | State          | Name of City    |   Designed Capacity (TPD) |
|----------|----------------|-----------------|---------------------------|
| 1        | Andhra Pradesh | Guntur          |                      1200 |
| 2        | Andhra Pradesh | Visakhapatnam   |                      1200 |
| 3        | Delhi          | Ghazipur        |                      1300 |
| 4        | Delhi          | Narela-Bawana   |                      2400 |
| 5        | Delhi          | Okhla           |                      1950 |
| 6        | Delhi          | Tehkhand        |                      2000 |
| 7        | Gujarat        | Jamnagar        |                       650 |
| 8        | Gujarat        | Ahmedabad       |                      1000 |
| 9        | Haryana        | Sonipat Cluster |                       800 |
| 10       | Karnataka      | Bangaluru       |                       600 |
| 11       | Madhya Pradesh | Jabalpur        |                       600 |
| 12       | Madhya Pradesh | Rewa            |                       350 |
| 13       | Maharashtra    | PCMC            |                       700 |
| 14       | Rajasthan      | Jaipur          |                       700 |
| 15       | Telangana      | Hyderabad       |                      2000 |
| 16       | Telangana      | Hyderabad       |                      1400 |
| 17       | Telangana      | Hyderabad       |                      1200 |
| Total    | Total          | Total           |                     20050 |

Statement  referred  to  the  reply  of  the  part  (c)  of  the  Lok  Sabha  Starred Question  No.  182  for  12.02.2026  regarding  'solid  waste  and  effluent processing capacity'

## State-wise details of operational Bio-methanation plants

| S. No.   | State/UT         |   No. of Plants |   Designed Capacity (TPD) |
|----------|------------------|-----------------|---------------------------|
| 1        | Andhra Pradesh   |               8 |                       188 |
| 2        | Assam            |               1 |                         5 |
| 3        | Chandigarh       |               1 |                         5 |
| 4        | Goa              |              17 |                      1220 |
| 5        | Gujarat          |               2 |                       400 |
| 6        | Haryana          |               2 |                        17 |
| 7        | Himachal Pradesh |               1 |                         5 |
| 8        | Jharkhand        |               3 |                       169 |
| 9        | Karnataka        |               9 |                       111 |
| 10       | Kerala           |               6 |                        34 |
| 11       | Madhya Pradesh   |               5 |                       595 |
| 12       | Maharashtra      |              46 |                       824 |
| 13       | Puducherry       |               1 |                        20 |
| 14       | Punjab           |               1 |                        15 |
| 15       | Rajasthan        |               3 |                       257 |
| 16       | Tamil Nadu       |              15 |                       180 |
| 17       | Telangana        |               1 |                        10 |
| 18       | Uttar Pradesh    |               4 |                        33 |
| 19       | Uttarakhand      |               3 |                       116 |
| 20       | West Bengal      |               2 |                        49 |
|          | Total            |             131 |                      4253 |

## Bio-CBG Operational Plants

| S. No.   | State/UT    |   No. of Plants |   Designed Capacity (TPD) |
|----------|-------------|-----------------|---------------------------|
| 1        | Gujarat     |               1 |                       100 |
| 2        | Delhi       |               1 |                       100 |
| 3        | Maharashtra |               2 |                      1020 |
| 4        | Karnataka   |               2 |                        10 |
| 5        | Kerala      |               1 |                       150 |
| 6        | Tamil Nadu  |               2 |                       200 |
|          | Total       |               9 |                      1580 |