With efforts of Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban (SBM-U), all cities have started practising scientific disposal of the Municipal Solid Waste (MSW). As a result, till date scientific processing of MSW has increased from 18% in 2014 to 70% at present. Details of quantity of treated and untreated waste in urban areas of the country is at Annexure. Under SBM-U, Govt. of India provides Additional Central Assistance (ACA) for creating infrastructure for management of solid waste addressing inter-alia, processing of municipal solid waste, management of construction & demolition waste and bio-remediation of all legacy dumpsites. Till date, ₹ 6,375.17 crores has been disbursed to States/UTs under Solid Waste Management (SWM) component of SBM-U for creation of infrastructure like Waste to Compost (WtC) plants, Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs), Waste to Energy (WtE) plants, Sanitary Landfills etc. Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0 launched recently on 1st October, 2021 has major focus on making the cities garbage free during the mission period.
Annexure
State/UT – wise details of treated and untreated waste in urban areas of the country [in Metric tonnes per day (MT/D)]
| S. No. | States/UTs | Total Waste generation (in MT/D) | Treated Waste (in MT/D) | Untreated Waste (in MT/D) |
| 1 | A&N Islands | 55 | 47 | 8 |
| 2 | Andhra Pradesh | 6,063 | 4,123 | 1,940 |
| 3 | Arunachal Pradesh | 201 | 50 | 151 |
| 4 | Assam | 1,054 | 664 | 390 |
| 5 | Bihar | 4,734 | 852 | 3,882 |
| 6 | Chandigarh | 541 | 541 | 0 |
| 7 | Chhattisgarh | 1,650 | 1,650 | 0 |
| 8 | Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman &Diu | 54 | 47 | 7 |
| 9 | Delhi | 10,823 | 8,875 | 1,948 |
| 10 | Goa | 136 | 99 | 37 |
| 11 | Gujarat | 9,228 | 8,582 | 646 |
| 12 | Haryana | 5,316 | 3,934 | 1,382 |
| 13 | Himachal Pradesh | 326 | 326 | 0 |
| 14 | Jammu & Kashmir | 949 | 361 | 588 |
| 15 | Ladakh | 13 | 0 | 13 |
| 16 | Jharkhand | 1,978 | 1,266 | 712 |
| 17 | Karnataka | 6,158 | 4,064 | 2,094 |
| 18 | Kerala | 2,400 | 2,208 | 192 |
| 19 | Madhya Pradesh | 5,906 | 5,788 | 118 |
| 20 | Maharashtra | 22,401 | 20,609 | 1,792 |
| 21 | Manipur | 8 | 1 | 7 |
| 22 | Meghalaya | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 23 | Mizoram | 196 | 2 | 194 |
| 24 | Nagaland | 119 | 0 | 119 |
| 25 | Odisha | 1,904 | 1,333 | 571 |
| 26 | Puducherry | 275 | 0 | 275 |
| 27 | Punjab | 4,054 | 2,392 | 1,662 |
| 28 | Rajasthan | 6,741 | 1,753 | 4,988 |
| 29 | Sikkim | 70 | 20 | 50 |
| 30 | Tamil Nadu | 12,464 | 6,606 | 5,858 |
| 31 | Telangana | 10,126 | 8,708 | 1,418 |
| 32 | Tripura | 326 | 176 | 150 |
| 33 | Uttar Pradesh | 14,861 | 11,592 | 3,269 |
| 34 | Uttarakhand | 1,553 | 870 | 683 |
| 35 | West Bengal | 7,876 | 788 | 7,088 |
| Total | 1,40,557 | 98,324 | 42,233 |
This information was given by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Shri Kaushal Kishore, in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.
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