India National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) Cities (2023)


India NCAP ReviewUpdated: March, 2023

India’s Ministry of Environment Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) launched the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) in 2019, aimed at reducing ambient PM pollution levels in 131 non-attainment cities from 24 states and union territories. The first batch of 102 non-attainment cities exceeded the national ambient standards for either PM2.5, PM10 or NO2 for five consecutive years. Over the next two years, this list was integrated with top 10 Indian cities on World Health Organization (WHO)’s most polluted list and some more cities showing an increasing trend in these pollutant concentrations. The programme in 2019, required these cities to prepare action plans to reduce the PM pollution levels by 20-30% by 2024, relative to 2017 levels. In 2022, the target was revised to reduce PM pollution levels by 40% by 2026. Maharashtra has the highest number of non-attainment cities with 19, followed by Uttar Pradesh, the most populous state in the country, with 17.

A summary of the proposed airsheds is included in the table below. Some airsheds also include other NCAP cities and some other cities. These 104 airsheds collectively represent 164 cities (131 from NCAP and 33 others) and 295 million people (based on Landscan 2021 database). Visualize and download a copy of the proposed grid structure in KML/CSV format here.

Airshed.NoStateNCAP CityOther NCAP citiesOther Cities
1Andhra PradeshAnantapur
2Andhra PradeshChitoor
3Andhra PradeshEluru Hanuman Junction
4Andhra PradeshKadapa
5Andhra PradeshKurnool
6Andhra PradeshNellore
7Andhra PradeshOngole
8Andhra PradeshRajahmundry
9Andhra PradeshSrikakulam
10Andhra PradeshVijayawada GunturTenali
11Andhra PradeshVishakhapatnam Anakapalle
12Andhra PradeshVizianagaram
13AssamGuwahati ByrnahatiDispur
14AssamNagaon
15AssamNalbari
16AssamSibsagar
17AssamSilchar
18BiharGaya
19BiharMuzaffarpur
20BiharPatna
21ChandigarhChandigarh Dera Bassi, ParwanooPanchkula, Kalka
22ChhattisgarhKorba
23ChhattisgarhRaipur BhillaiDurg
24DelhiDelhi Faridabad, Ghaziabad, NoidaGreater Noida, Gurugram, Palwal, Manesar, Sonipat
25GujaratAhmedabad Gandhi Nagar
26GujaratRajkot
27GujaratSurat Hazira
28GujaratVadodara
29Himachal PradeshKala Amb
30Himachal PradeshNalagarh Baddi
31Himachal PradeshPaonta Sahib
32Himachal PradeshSunder Nagar
33Jammu & KashmirJammu
34Jammu & KashmirSrinagar
35JharkhandDhanbad
36JharkhandJamshedpurBokaro, Jaropokhar
37JharkhandRanchi
38KarnatakaBangalore
39KarnatakaDevanagere
40KarnatakaGulburga
41KarnatakaHubli-Dharwad
42Madhya PradeshBhopal
43Madhya PradeshGwalior
44Madhya PradeshIndore Dewas, UjjainMhow, Pitampura
45Madhya PradeshJabalpur
46Madhya PradeshSagar
47MaharashtraAkola
48MaharashtraAmravati
49MaharashtraAurangabad
50MaharashtraChandrapur
51MaharashtraJalgaon
52MaharashtraJalna
53MaharashtraKolhapur Sangli
54MaharashtraLatur
55MaharashtraMumbai Badlapur, Navi Mumbai, Thane, Ulhasnagar, Vasai VirarKalyan, Karjat
56MaharashtraNagpur
57MaharashtraNashik
58MaharashtraPune Pimpri-Chinchwad, Hinjewadi
59MaharashtraSolapur
60NagalandDimapur
61NagalandKohima
62OdishaAngul Talcher
63OdishaBalasore
64OdishaBhubaneswar Cuttack, Kalinga Nagar
65OdishaRourkela
66PunjabAmritsar Tarn Taran
67PunjabJalandhar Phagwara
68PunjabKhanna Gobindgarh
69PunjabLudhiana Philaur
70PunjabNaya Nangal Una
71PunjabPathankot/Dera Baba Damtal
72PunjabPatiala
73RajasthanAlwar
74RajasthanJaipur
75RajasthanJodhpur
76RajasthanKota
77RajasthanUdaipur
78Tamil NaduChennai
79Tamil NaduMadurai Singrauli
80Tamil NaduThoothukudi
81Tamil NaduTrichy
82TelanganaHyderabad Patancheru, Sangareddy
83TelanganaNalgonda
84Uttar PradeshAgra
85Uttar PradeshAllahabad
86Uttar PradeshAnpara
87Uttar PradeshBareily
88Uttar PradeshFirozabad
89Uttar PradeshGajraula
90Uttar PradeshGorakhpur
91Uttar PradeshJhansi
92Uttar PradeshKanpur Unnao
93Uttar PradeshKhurja Bulandshahr
94Uttar PradeshLucknow Barabanki
95Uttar PradeshMeerut
96Uttar PradeshMoradabad
97Uttar PradeshRaebareli
98Uttar PradeshVaranasi
99UttarakhandDehradun
100UttarakhandKashipur
101UttarakhandRishikesh Haridwar
102West BengalAsansol DurgapurRanigunj
103West BengalHaldia
104West BengalKolkata Barrackpore, Howrah