Parliament Question: Financial Assistance for Garbage, Waste and Sewage

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2133 TO BE ANSWERED ON FEBRUARY 12, 2026 FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR GARBAGE, WASTE AND SEWAGE NO. 2133. SHRI MANI A:

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

(a) whether the management of garbage, waste and sewage is becoming a serious issue in urban areas in the country;

(b) if so, the details thereof along with the reasons therefor and the action taken/being taken by the Government in this regard;

(c) whether the Government provides financial and technical assistance to the States for establishment of garbage and sewage treatment plants and if so, the details thereof, State-wise along with the details of the financial assistance provided to Tamil Nadu during the last three years and the current year, year and city-wise; and

(d) whether the Government has assessed/proposes to assess the progress of the work carried out by the States in this regard and if so, the details thereof, State-wise? ANSWER THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS (SHRI TOKHAN SAHU)

(a) & (b): Growing urban population in the country has led to rise in the demand of management of garbage, waste and sewage in the urban areas of the country. To meet these demands, Government of India launched Swachh Bharat Mission – Urban 2.0 (SBM-U 2.0) with a vision of achieving Garbage Free Status for all Urban Local Bodies (ULBs)/cities in the country through scientific management of all fractions of waste.

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, out of which 1,32,514 TPD is processed. The current processing capacity has reached to 81.65 percent.

To deal with sewerage and septage management in cities having less than 1 lakh population a new component Used Water Management (UWM) has been introduced under SBM-U 2.0. MoHUA is also implementing Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) to deal with sewerage and septage management as well as making cities/statutory towns ‘self-reliant’ and ‘water secure’, in ULBs with more than 1 lakh population.

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(c) : Sanitation is a state subject. 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.

Government of India has allocated ₹10,930.12 crores under SWM and ₹15,926.55 crores under UWM of SBM-U 2.0. Under SWM component action plans having central share of ₹9503.76 crores for setting up waste processing plants of 158325.72 TPD along with 580 mechanical road sweepers and remediation of 19.48 Cr MT of legacy waste have been approved. Under UWM component STPs/FSTPs with the capacity of 10,830.56 MLD, 17,143 kms of I&D network and 1,940 CESS pool Tankers/Desludging Machines, 517 other desludging equipment have been approved.

Under SBM-U 2.0 central share of fund is released to the State/UTs and not to the cities. State-wise details of the approved financial assistance is at Annexure – I. Details of funds released to Tamil Nadu in last three years and current year under SBM-U 2.0 is as below:

2022-23 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26

384.66 Cr 69.05 Cr 180.04 Cr 234.21 Cr Under sewerage and septage management sector of AMRUT, a total of 889 sewerage and septage management projects having 4,843 MLD and under AMRUT 2.0, 583 sewerage/septage projects having 6,649 MLD sewage treatment capacity have been approved. The State-wise details of financial assistance provided under AMRUT for sewage and septage management is at Annexure – II.

(d): To evaluate the cleanliness status and progress in implementation of SBM-U in cities, MoHUA has been conducting an annual cleanliness survey – ‘Swachh Survekshan’ since the year 2016 through third party assessment. State-wise details of performance under Swachh Survekshan 2024 is available at https://ss2024.sbmurban.org/#/home.

*****Annexure – I Statement referred to the reply of the part (c) of the Lok Sabha unstarred Question No. 2133 for 12.02.2026 regarding “financial assistance for garbage, waste and sewage” (₹ in Crores) S. No. State/UT Total 1 A&N Islands 8.60 2 Andhra Pradesh 1409.75 3 Arunachal Pradesh 129.45 4 Assam 496.48 5 Bihar 1190.76 6 Chandigarh 45.20 7 Chhattisgarh 619.78 Dadra & Nagar Haveli and 8 29.17 Daman & Diu 9 Delhi 1140.57 10 Goa 71.28 11 Gujarat 1327.28 12 Haryana 246.68 13 Himachal Pradesh 163.51 14 Jammu & Kashmir 666.95 15 Jharkhand 358.78 16 Karnataka 2157.75 17 Kerala 218.20 18 Ladakh 9.50 19 Madhya Pradesh 2013.46 20 Maharashtra 3390.37 21 Manipur 117.38 22 Meghalaya 67.29 23 Mizoram 115.70 24 Nagaland 171.47 25 Odisha 769.32 26 Puducherry 83.21 27 Punjab 650.77 28 Rajasthan 1720.80 29 Sikkim 30.10 30 Tamil Nadu 3261.36 31 Telangana 993.40 32 Tripura 70.13 33 Uttar Pradesh 3523.42 34 Uttarakhand 127.41 35 West Bengal 1438.24 Total 28833.52Annexure – II Statement referred to the reply of the part (c) of the Lok Sabha unstarred Question No. 2133 for 12.02.2026 regarding “financial assistance for garbage, waste and sewage” (₹ in Crores) AMRUT AMRUT 2.0 S. No. State /UT No. Cost No. Cost 1 A&N islands 0 0 0 0 2 Andhra Pradesh 40 598.47 71 2495.50 3 Arunachal Pradesh 2 53.50 0 0 4 Assam 0 0 2 67.34 5 Bihar 0 0 11 3445.08 6 Chandigarh 2 20.20 4 115.08 7 Chhattisgarh 30 379.17 5 645.37 Dadra & Nagar Haveli and 8 2 21.96 1 63.47 Daman & Diu 9 Delhi 7 408.79 38 4832.35 10 Goa 3 117.53 1 21.26 11 Gujarat 98 2943.89 167 6877.24 12 Haryana 44 1655.23 16 1353.24 13 Himachal Pradesh 14 99.71 2 11.6 14 Jammu and Kashmir 15 137.26 3 373.35 15 Jharkhand 9 251.5 1 2284.02 16 Karnataka 55 2499.92 0 0 17 Kerala 151 385.79 45 1147.34 18 Ladakh 2 4.96 2 192.05 19 Madhya Pradesh 29 3882.63 36 5432.04 20 Maharashtra 36 3294.03 46 12510.96 21 Meghalaya 2 57.13 0 0 22 Mizoram 3 13.73 1 39.22 23 Nagaland 2 8.00 2 93.92 24 Odisha 13 138.21 0 0 25 Puducherry 9 11.43 4 107.14 26 Punjab 62 1504.65 12 541.86 27 Rajasthan 30 2360.19 43 5673.7 28 Tamil Nadu 18 5670.80 30 6623.4 29 Telangana 4 203.30 12 5775.11 30 Tripura 1 11.42 0 0 31 Uttar Pradesh 159 7353.01 26 5054.93 32 Uttarakhand 44 188.1 0 0 33 West Bengal 3 192.5 2 341.11 Total 889 34467.01 583 66117.69