Some 978 plastic waste management units (PWMUs) were operational till December 5, 2024, Kirti Vardhan Singh, minister of state in the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change told the Rajya Sabha on August 7, 2025.
He added that 15.3 million tons of plastic packaging waste has been processed by registered plastic waste processors since 2022.
Some 27.63 per cent of the Gujarat coast is vulnerable to erosion, 19.39 per cent is under accretion (growing) and 52.99 per cent is in a stable state, according to the study of National Centre for Coastal Research or NCCR for the period 1990-2018.
NCCR is an attached office of the Union Ministry of Earth Sciences, Singh told the Rajya Sabha.
A recent study by the Wildlife Institute of India published in the journal Heliyon highlights localised dietary exposure risks to Gangetic dolphins from certain chemicals in a 60 kilometre-stretch of the Middle Ganga.
The study underscores the need for targeted monitoring and does not support broad generalisations for the entire Ganga basin, Singh told the Rajya Sabha.
Some 10,026 proposals involving diversion of 96,450.07 ha of forest land for non-forestry purpose under the Van (Sanrakshan Evam Samvardhan) Adhiniyam, 1980, have been approved across all states and Union territories during the period 2020-2025, Singh told the Rajya Sabha.
The contribution of nuclear energy in India’s total electricity generation is about three per cent. Nuclear power contributed about 56.7 Billion Units (~ 3.1 per cent) in 2024-25, as against the total electricity generation in India of about 1,830 Billion Units, Jitendra Singh, minister of state for the Union Ministry of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences told the Rajya Sabha.
The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) initiated the exercise of identifying polluted river stretches (PRS) in India since 2009, based on the river water quality monitored during the past years on periodic basis.
So far, CPCB has published four such periodic reports in 2009, 2015, 2018 and 2022.
The PRS report published by the Central Pollution Control Board in November 2022 identified 311 PRS on 279 rivers in 30 states and Union territories based on monitoring results in terms of Bio-Chemical Oxygen Demand (BOD), as an indicator of organic pollution, C R Patil, Union minister of Jal Shakti told the Lok Sabha.
The Government of India (GoI) launched the Namami Gange Programme (NGP) in 2014-15 for the rejuvenation of the Ganga river and its tributaries for five years, up to March 2021. The government further extended the NGP to March 2026.
As of June 2025, the Centre had sanctioned 502 projects at a cost of Rs 41,696 crore, of which 323 projects have been completed. The majority of these projects pertain to the creation of sewage infrastructure, as untreated domestic and industrial wastewater is the primary cause of pollution in the river.
Some 212 sewerage infrastructure projects have been taken up at a cost of Rs 34,526 crore for the creation and rehabilitation of 6,540 million litres per day (MLD) of Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) capacity.
Some 136 sewerage projects have been completed, resulting in the creation and rehabilitation of 3,781 MLD of STP capacity, Raj Bhushan Choudhary, minister of state for Jal Shakti told the Lok Sabha.
Some 209 hydroelectric projects with an aggregated installed capacity of 43.18 GW have been commissioned at present, Shripad Naik, minister of state in the Union Ministry of Power told the Lok Sabha.
Approximately 86.43 per cent i.e., 507,394 of 587,045 villages have implemented some form of drainage system, V Somanna, minister of state for Jal Shakti told the Lok Sabha.
Grey Water Management in villages is being done through various interventions such as soak pits (at household and community level), kitchen gardens and grey waste management systems such as Decentralized Wastewater Treatment System (DEWATS), duckweed ponds, Phytorid systems etc, he added.