Lok Sabha Question No. 2533 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2026-03-09
Subject: Environmental Pollution Caused by Textile Industry
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: Shri G Lakshminarayana

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2533

## TO BE ANSWERED ON 09.03.2026

## Environmental Pollution Caused by Textile Industry

## 2533. SHRI G. LAKSHMINARAYANA:

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

- (a) the extent of environmental pollution caused by the textile and apparel industry during the last five years, including water pollution, air emissions and hazardous waste generation, State/UTwise;
- (b) the  number  of  textile  units  identified  as  polluting  and  the  status  of  their  compliance  with prescribed environmental norms, State/UT-wise;
- (c) the  details  of  pollution  control  infrastructure  supported  or  created  by  the  Government, including Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETPs), Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) systems and  solid  and  hazardous  waste  management  facilities,  along  with  capacity  created  and  units covered;
- (d) the  details  of  the  funds  allocated,  released  and  utilised  under  various  Central  schemes  for pollution control and environmental compliance in the textile sector during the last five years;
- (e) the number of proposals received, approved, rejected and pending for setting up or upgrading CETPs, ZLD plants or adopting cleaner technologies; and
- (f) the  steps  taken/proposed  to  be  taken  to  strengthen  monitoring,  enforcement  and  adoption  of sustainable and low-pollution technologies in the textile industry?

## ANSWER

MINISTER  OF  STATE  IN  THE  MINISTRY  OF  ENVIRONMENT,  FOREST  AND  CLIMATE CHANGE

(SHRI KIRTI VARDHAN SINGH)

## (a) to (f) :

The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has revised the categorisation of the industries including Textile industry in 2025 and issued direction on 12.02.2025 to all the State Pollution Control Boards (SPCBs)/ Pollution Control Committees (PCCs) under section 18(1)(b) of the Water Act, 1974 and Air Act, 1981 for harmonisation of classification of industrial sector under Red, Orange, Green, White and Blue categories.

The  CPCB  carries  out  random  surprise  inspections  of  the  industries  to  verify  their  compliance  by analysing real-time Online Continuous Effluent Monitoring Systems (OCEMS) data, National Mission for Clean Ganga ( NMCG) program (in Ganga Basin) and on receipt of public complaints/representations etc., as and when required. Based on the severity of violations, during the last  five  years,  CPCB  has  issued  closure  direction  to  six  units  under  Section  5  of  Environment Protection Act, 1986 for non-compliance with effluent /emission discharge standards. All these 6 units have later complied with CPCBs closure direction and the closure directions were revoked.  State wise details  of  polluting  units  and  status  of  their  compliance  is  being  maintained  by  concerned  State Governments.

There are 225 operational CETPs across 21 States in the country, with a combined design treatment capacity for the treatment of 2245 million litres per day (MLD) of industrial wastewater. Out of these 56  CETPs  located  in  various  States  are  designed  to  achieve  Zero  Liquid  Discharge  (ZLD).  To strengthen  self-regulation  with  Online  Continuous  Effluent  Monitoring  Systems  (OCEMS),  184 CETPs are  equipped  with  real-time  monitoring  and  alert  system  with  connectivity  to  the  server  of SPCBs/PCCs  and  CPCB.  Further,  in  order  to  harmonize  the  discharge  norms  of  CETPs  w.r.t.  the discharge norms of contributing industrial sectors and for effective monitoring and proper functioning of CETPs, MoEFCC  published an  amendment notification on 09.09.2024 which comprises harmonised discharge norms for CETPs and also defines the roles and responsibilities of various stake holders for proper functioning of CETPs.

The  MoEFCC  vide  G.S.R.  978(E),  dated  10.10.2016  notified  standards  for  treated  effluent  for  All Integrated textile units, units of Cotton / Woollen / Carpets / Polyester, Units having Printing / Dyeing /  Bleaching process or manufacturing and Garment units. The concerned SPCBs/PCCs in respective States ensure the implementation and compliance of these standards.

In order to facilitate the textile industry to meet the required environmental standards and to support new CETP/ upgradation of CETPs in processing clusters/ processing parks, the Ministry of Textiles has been implementing Integrated Processing Development Scheme (IPDS) since 2013. The scheme aims at facilitating the Indian textile industry to become globally competitive using environmentally friendly  processing  standards  and  technology.  The  scheme  is  being  implemented  for  completing ongoing projects only. Under the Scheme, 6 projects have been sanctioned which are currently under implementation. So far, Rs. 213 crores of Government of India grant has been released till date. The details of projects is enclosed as Annexure-I.

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## Annexure-I

## Details of projects sanctioned under Integrated Processing Development Scheme (IPDS) (Rs. In crore)

|   S. No. | Name of the Project                                                       | State     | Sanction Date   |   Project Cost |   Approved GoI share |   Released GoI share | Status                    |
|----------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------|-----------------|----------------|----------------------|----------------------|---------------------------|
|        1 | Balotra Water Pollution Control Treatment & Reverse Osmosis Private Ltd   | Rajasthan | 06.07.2015      |         131.89 |               65.89  |                62.45 | Nearing completion stage. |
|        2 | Jasol Water Pollution Control Treatment & Reverse Osmosis Private Limited | Rajasthan | 19.10. 2015     |          38.5  |               19.25  |                14.43 | Under Implementation      |
|        3 | Sanganer Enviro Project Development                                       | Rajasthan | 11.03. 2016     |         159    |               75     |                37.5  | Under Implementation      |
|        4 | Nextgen Textile Park                                                      | Rajasthan | 13.04.2021      |         129.42 |               64.71  |                 6.3  | Under Implementation      |
|        5 | Pali Common Effluent Treatment Plant                                      | Rajasthan | 19.10.2016      |         100    |               50     |                37.5  | Under Implementation      |
|        6 | Gujarat Eco Textile Park                                                  | Gujarat   | 06.04.2018      |         146.39 |               73.195 |                54.84 | Under Implementation      |

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