Question : National Clean Air Programme

(a) whether National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) is being implemented to reduce pollution level in 100 selected cities of the country;
(b) if so, the details thereof along with the aims and objectives of the said programme;
(c) whether any international organisation has also been associated with the said programme and if so, the details thereof;
(d) whether any Steering Committee has also been constituted for proper running of NCAP and if so, the details thereof;
(e) whether this committee has prepared any review report on success of NCAP and if so, the details thereof; and
(f) the other steps being taken to reduce the pollution level in cities of Gujarat?

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

(a)and (b): Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) has launched National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) on 10 January, 2019 as a national level strategy for pan India implementation to reduce air pollution levels across the country. NCAP is a mid-term, five-year action plan with 2019 as the first year. Taking into account the available international experiences and national studies, the tentative national level target of 20%–30% reduction of PM2.5 and PM10 concentration by 2024 is envisaged under the NCAP. Under NCAP, 124 non-attainment citieshave been identified across the country based on the Air Quality data from 2014-2018.

(c) Several international agencies are supporting various cites to meet the objectives of NCAP. The details are annexed.

(d) and (e):Steering Committee has been constituted at Central level, chaired by Secretary Environment, Forest and Climate Change and at State Level Chaired, by Chief Secretary to oversee the planning execution and monitoring of NCAP. City Specific Actions plans are prepared at all the Non-attainment cites and are approved by the Steering Committee. The details of action plan is available at https://cpcb.nic.in/approved-city-action-plans.

(f):The Government has taken several steps for mitigation of air pollution which is at Annexure –II. There are four non-attainment cities/million plus citiesnamely Surat, Ahmedabad, Vadodara and Rajkot in Gujarat.

City Specific Clean Air Action Plans have been prepared and rolled out for implementation in all 04 cities of Gujarat. City action plans include actions to control vehicular emission, road dust, biomass/crop/garbage/MSW burning, construction activities, industrial emission and other city specific sources and have timelines and responsible agencies identified for implementing actions. Under NCAP, Rs 12 Crore and under Fifteenth Finance Commission grants, Rs. 405 Crore has been released to Gujrat for implementing city specific action plans.
Further, serval international agencies are supporting the cities of Gujarat by conducting studies on Heat Sink Greening, Emission Inventorization, Clean Technology- Industrial,Developing strategies for control of air pollution etc.

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