Lok Sabha Question No. 409 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2015-12-01
Subject: Critically Polluted Areas
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT,  FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: T. RADHAKRISHNAN

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 409

TO BE ANSWERED ON 01.12.2015

## Critically Polluted Areas

## 409. SHRI T. RADHAKRISHNAN:

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

- (a) whether  the  Central  Pollution  Control  Board  (CPCB)  has  observed  that  waste  is  being dumped unscientifically into landfills which is causing serious environmental damage;
- (b) if  so,  whether  majority  of  the  civic  authorities  did  not  have  a  systematic,  time  bound action plan for management of municipal work;
- (c) whether  the  Ministry  has  decided  to  depute  Joint  Secretary  level  officers  to  undertake assessment and periodic review of all 43 Critically Polluted Areas (CPAs) to see   whether the central action plan is being properly implemented to minimise the impact of pollution;
- (d) if so, the details thereof;
- (e) the names of the cities which have been included in the CPAs;
- (f) whether  some  CPAs  come  under  a  moratorium  on  consideration  of  any  developmental project for environmental clearance; and
- (g) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER  OF  STATE  (INDEPENDENT  CHARGE)  FOR  ENVIRONMENT,  FOREST  AND CLIMATE CHANGE

## (SHRI PRAKASH JAVADEKAR)

(a)  &  (b)  As  per  the  estimates  of  Central  Pollution  Control  Board  (CPCB)  in  2014-15,1,42,566 MT/day  municipal solid waste is generated in the country out of which 83,970 MT/day is disposed in landfill/ dump sites without any treatment which may cause environmental damage. It is further reported  by  CPCB  that  some  civic  authorities  have  not  put  in  place  prescribed  solid  waste management  system  as  laid  down  in  Municipal  Solid  Waste  (Management  &  Handling)  Rules, 2000.

(c)& (d) Yes, Sir.  The Ministry has assigned the task of assessment, periodical review and monitoring of the progress of implementation of action plans of the identified 43 Criticallypolluted areas  (CPAs) to  Joint  Secretary/  Joint  Secretary  level  officers  of  the  Ministry  for  environmental remediation in these CPAs.

- (e) The list of 43 CPAs is placed at Annexure-I.

(f) & (g) The Ministry, after having identified 43 CPAsin 2010, imposed temporary moratorium on environmental  clearance  for  development  projects  in  these  CPAs.  However,  presently,  the moratorium  on  environmental  clearance  for  projects  is  in-force  in7  CPAs,  namely,  Ankleshwar (Gujarat),  Chandrapur  (Maharashtra),  Pali  (Rajasthan),  Vatva(Gujarat),  Vellore  (Tamil  Nadu), Najafgarh Drain Basin (UT Delhi) and Jodhpur (Rajasthan).

## Annexure referred to in reply to part (e) of the Lok Sabha Unstarred Question Number 409 for 1.12.2015 by Shri T. Radhakrishnanregarding Critically Polluted Areas

## The State-wise list of 43 Critically Polluted Clusters/ Areas:

| STATE          | NO. OF CLUSTERS   | INDUSTRIAL CLUSTERS/ AREAS                           | INDUSTRIAL CLUSTERS/ AREAS         | INDUSTRIAL CLUSTERS/ AREAS         |
|----------------|-------------------|------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
| Andhra Pradesh | 2                 | Vishakhapatnam Patancheru-Bollaram                   | Vishakhapatnam Patancheru-Bollaram | Vishakhapatnam Patancheru-Bollaram |
| Chhattisgarh   | 1                 | Korba                                                | Korba                              | Korba                              |
| Delhi          | 1                 | Nazafgarh AnandParvat, Wazirpur)                     | drain Naraina,                     | basin (including Okhla and         |
| Gujarat        | 6                 | Ankaleshwar Vapi Ahmedabad Vatva Bhavnagar Junagarh  |                                    |                                    |
| Haryana        | 2                 | Faridabad Panipat                                    |                                    |                                    |
| Jharkhand      | 1                 | Dhanbad                                              |                                    |                                    |
| Karnataka      | 2                 | Mangalore Bhadravati                                 |                                    |                                    |
| Kerala         | 1                 | Cochin, Greater                                      |                                    |                                    |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1                 | Indore                                               |                                    |                                    |
| Maharashtra    | 5                 | Chandrapur Dombivalli Aurangabad Navi Mumbai Tarapur |                                    |                                    |
| Orissa         | 3                 | Angul-Talchar Ib valley Jharsuguda                   |                                    |                                    |
| Punjab         | 2                 | Ludhiana Mandi Gobind Garh                           |                                    |                                    |
| Rajasthan      | 3                 | Bhiwadi Jodhpur                                      |                                    |                                    |
|                |                   | Pali                                                 |                                    |                                    |
| Tamil Nadu     | 4                 | Vellore Cuddalore Manali Coimbatore                  |                                    |                                    |

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| Uttar Pradesh   |   6 | Ghaziabad Singrauli Noida Kanpur Agra Varanasi-Mirzapur   |
|-----------------|-----|-----------------------------------------------------------|
| West Bengal     |   3 | Haldia Howrah Asansol                                     |

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