Lok Sabha Question No. 2652 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2026-03-09
Subject: Plastic Waste Management Rules Compliance
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: Shri Magunta Sreenivasulu Reddy, Shri Prabhakar Reddy Vemireddy, Shri B K Parthasarathi

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 2652

TO BE ANSWERED ON 09.03.2026

## 'Plastic Waste Management Rules Compliance'

2652.   SHRI MAGUNTA SREENIVASULU REDDY: SHRI PRABHAKAR REDDY VEMIREDDY: SHRI B K PARTHASARATHI:

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

- (a)  the  details  of  the  States  and  Union  Territories  that  have  submitted  Annual  Reports  in compliance with the Plastic Waste Management Rules;
- (b)  the  number  of  Urban  Local  Bodies  (ULBs)  that  have  submitted  Annual  Reports  in compliance with these Rules, State/UT-wise;
- (c) the number of such ULBs registered under the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) portal and the status of their compliance;
- (d) the details of the specific projects and initiatives approved by the Central Government to promote the elimination of single-use plastics and strengthen waste segregation in urban areas; (e) the details of the total financial assistance sanctioned, released and utilised on plastic-free initiatives across the country, year and State/UT-wise, especially in Andhra Pradesh; and (f) the details of the measures taken by the Central Government to ensure effective monitoring and enforcement of the Plastic Waste Management Rules across the States and ULB?

## ANSWER

MINISTER  OF  STATE  IN  THE  MINISTRY  OF  ENVIRONMENT,  FOREST  AND CLIMATE CHANGE (SHRI KIRTI VARDHAN SINGH)

- (a): As per Plastic Waste Management (Amendment) Rules, 2024, notified on 14 th  March, 2024, every urban local body, Panchayat at District Level and State Pollution Control Board or Pollution Control Committee shall prepare and submit annual report in the prescribed form online. As per information available on the online portal for submission of Annual Reports

under the rules, out of 4972 urban local bodies, 4858 urban local bodies  have submitted online annual  report  for  the  year  2024-25.  Similarly,  out  of  665  District  Panchayats,  586  District Panchayats and 23 SPCBs/PCCs out of 36 SPCBs/PCCs have submitted online annual report for the year 2024-25. The details of SPCBs/PCCs who have submitted their Annual Reports for the year 2024-25 is given at Annexure I.

(b) The State/UT-wise details of Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) that have submitted Annual Reports in compliance with the Rules, is given at Annexure II

(c) As per the information available on the centralized Extended Producer Responsibility portal, a total of 1,659 Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) have been registered on the portal to date. The state/UT -wise list of registered ULBs is given at Annexure III.

(d) & (e): The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change notified Plastic Waste Management Amendment Rules, 2021, on 12th August 2021, prohibiting identified Single Use Plastic (SUP) items, which have low utility and high littering potential, with effect from 1 July 2022.  The  Ministry  of  Environment,  Forest  and  Climate  Change  has  also  notified  the Guidelines  on  Extended  Producer  Responsibility  (EPR)  for  plastic  packaging  vide  Plastic Waste Management Amendment Rules, 2022, on 16th February, 2022. The implementation of EPR  on  plastic  packaging  will  lead  to  further  strengthening  of  the  waste  management infrastructure including waste segregation in urban areas.

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, celebrated World Environment Day 2025 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, on 5 th  June 2025, with the slogan 'One Nation, One Mission: End Plastic Pollution'. As part of one month long pre-campaign activities undertaken before World Environment Day 2025, around 69,000 events were organized in which around 21 lakh people participated across the country. Based upon the information provided by State Pollution  Control  Boards  and  Pollution  Control  Committees,  the  Ministry  of  Environment, Forests and Climate Change  and  Central Pollution Control Board have prepared a 'Compendium of Manufacturers / Sellers of Eco-alternatives to Banned Single Use Plastic Items', which was launched on World Environment Day, 2025. The compendium provides details of nearly 1000 units spread across the country. The Compendium is available on the website of CPCB for wider dissemination and use. In keeping with the development of ecoalternatives, Bureau of Indian Standard had earlier notified Indian Standard IS 18267 for Food Serving Utensil Made from Agri By-Products.

The National Plastic Pollution Reduction Campaign (NPPRC) was also launched for the period 5th June to 31st October 2025. The Campaign included activities to reduce plastic pollution in urban and rural areas under Swachhta Hi Sewa programme. The activities also included focus on reducing use of avoidable single use plastics in government offices especially during Special Campaign 5.0. Further, additional central assistance is provided under Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) for solid waste management including plastic waste management for urban and rural areas in the country.

As per information provided by Swachha Andhra Corporation, public awareness generation activities for promoting behavioral  change towards reduction in single use plastics, encouraging  adoption  of  eco-friendly alternatives  and  training  programme  for  source segregation  of  waste  and  plastic  waste  management,  have  been  carried  out  under    the Information, Education and Communication (IEC) and Capacity Building (CB) components of SBM. The Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board has  also  conducted  various awareness programmes on plastic waste management and ban on single use plastics by utilizing its own resources.

(f)  The  following  steps  have  been  taken  to  strengthen  implementation  of  Plastic  Waste Management Rules, 2016 and to implement ban on identified Single Use Plastic items:

(i) All thirty-six States/UTs have constituted the Special Task Force under the chairpersonship of the Chief Secretary / Administrator for elimination of identified single use Plastic items and effective plastic waste management. A National Level Taskforce has also been constituted by the Ministry for taking coordinated efforts to eliminate identified single use plastic items and effective implementation of Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016.

(ii) Directions have been issued under Section 5 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 for  setting  up  of  institutional  mechanism  for  enforcement  of  provisions  of  Plastic  Waste Management Rules, 2016 to all State Pollution Control Boards / Pollution Control Committees. Directions  have  also  been  issued  to  E-commerce  companies,  leading  Single  Use  Plastic sellers/users, and plastic raw material manufacturers with respect to phasing out of identified single use plastic items. Separately, custom authorities have been asked to stop the import of banned SUP items.

(iii) For effective monitoring of ban on identified Single Use Plastic items and plastic waste management  in  the  country,  the  following  online  platforms  are  in  operation:  (a)  National Dashboard for monitoring of  comprehensive action plan implementation, (b)  CPCB Monitoring  Module  for  Compliance  on  Elimination  of  Single  Use  Plastic,  and  (c)  CPCB Grievance Redressal App.

(iv) States and Union Territories have been asked to undertake regular enforcement drives to  implement  ban  on  identified  single  use  plastic  items  and  on  plastic  carry  bags  having thickness  less  than  one  hundred  twenty  microns  covering  fruit  and  vegetable  markets, wholesale markets, local markets, flower vendors, units manufacturing plastic carry bags etc. Actions have been taken by concerned authorities on the deviations, which include seizure of banned single use plastic items and levy of penalty. As per details provided by SPCB/PCC and details available at SUP compliance monitoring portal, a total of 8,61,740 inspections have been conducted and 1985 tonnes of banned single use plastic items have been seized and a total of Rs. 19.82 crores of fine has been levied, since July, 2022.

Annexure I

## List of SPCBs/PCCs who have submitted Annual Report for FY 2024-25.

|   S.No. | State/UT          |
|---------|-------------------|
|       1 | Assam             |
|       2 | Bihar             |
|       3 | Chandigarh        |
|       4 | Chhattisgarh      |
|       5 | Delhi             |
|       6 | Goa               |
|       7 | Gujarat           |
|       8 | Himachal Pradesh  |
|       9 | Jammu and Kashmir |
|      10 | Karnataka         |
|      11 | Kerala            |
|      12 | Ladakh            |
|      13 | Madhya Pradesh    |
|      14 | Manipur           |
|      15 | Meghalaya         |
|      16 | Mizoram           |
|      17 | Nagaland          |
|      18 | Odisha            |
|      19 | Puducherry        |
|      20 | Punjab            |
|      21 | Sikkim            |
|      22 | Tamil Nadu        |
|      23 | West Bengal       |

## Annexure II

## State/ UT- wise Status of Annual Reporting by Urban Local Bodies for FY 2024-25

|   S. No. | State/UT                                 |   Total Number of ULBs |   Number of ULBs submitted the FormV PartA |
|----------|------------------------------------------|------------------------|--------------------------------------------|
|        1 | Andaman and Nicobar Islands              |                      1 |                                          1 |
|        2 | Andhra Pradesh                           |                    124 |                                        123 |
|        3 | Arunachal Pradesh                        |                     35 |                                          8 |
|        4 | Assam                                    |                    115 |                                        114 |
|        5 | Bihar                                    |                    270 |                                        261 |
|        6 | Chandigarh                               |                      1 |                                          1 |
|        7 | Chhattisgarh                             |                    191 |                                        191 |
|        8 | Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu |                      3 |                                          3 |
|        9 | Delhi                                    |                      5 |                                          3 |
|       10 | Goa                                      |                     14 |                                         14 |
|       11 | Gujarat                                  |                    167 |                                        166 |
|       12 | Haryana                                  |                     89 |                                         87 |
|       13 | Himachal Pradesh                         |                     66 |                                         66 |
|       14 | Jammu and Kashmir                        |                     80 |                                         80 |
|       15 | Jharkhand                                |                     50 |                                         50 |
|       16 | Karnataka                                |                    317 |                                        316 |
|       17 | Kerala                                   |                     94 |                                         94 |
|       18 | Ladakh                                   |                      2 |                                          2 |
|       19 | Lakshadweep                              |                      0 |                                          0 |
|       20 | Madhya Pradesh                           |                    417 |                                        417 |
|       21 | Maharashtra                              |                    417 |                                        401 |
|       22 | Manipur                                  |                     27 |                                         24 |
|       23 | Meghalaya                                |                     12 |                                          7 |
|       24 | Mizoram                                  |                     23 |                                         22 |
|       25 | Nagaland                                 |                     39 |                                         33 |
|       26 | Odisha                                   |                    115 |                                        115 |
|       27 | Puducherry                               |                      5 |                                          5 |
|       28 | Punjab                                   |                    169 |                                        169 |
|       29 | Rajasthan                                |                    261 |                                        259 |
|       30 | Sikkim                                   |                      7 |                                          7 |
|       31 | Tamil Nadu                               |                    651 |                                        651 |
|       32 | Telangana                                |                    163 |                                        162 |

|   33 | Tripura       |   20 |   20 |
|------|---------------|------|------|
|   34 | Uttar Pradesh |  779 |  760 |
|   35 | Uttarakhand   |  112 |  103 |
|   36 | West Bengal   |  131 |  123 |

Annexure III Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) registered on the EPR portal

| State / UT          | State / UT   |   Registered ULBs |
|---------------------|--------------|-------------------|
| ANDAMAN AND ISLANDS | NICOBAR      |                 1 |
| ASSAM               |              |                 5 |
| BIHAR               |              |                 8 |
| CHHATTISGARH        |              |               154 |
| GOA                 |              |                14 |
| GUJARAT             |              |               154 |
| HIMACHAL PRADESH    |              |                57 |
| KARNATAKA           |              |               318 |
| KERALA              |              |                90 |
| MADHYA PRADESH      |              |                 3 |
| ODISHA              |              |               115 |
| PONDICHERRY         |              |                 1 |
| TAMIL NADU          |              |               158 |
| UTTAR PRADESH       |              |               577 |
| UTTARAKHAND         |              |                 4 |
| Grand               | Total        |              1659 |

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