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Electronic waste (e-waste) generation in India increased by over 43 per cent between 2017-18 and 2019-20, according to the written statement presented by Babul Supriyo, Union minister of state in the ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, presented in the Lok Sabha. 

E-waste increased to over one million tonnes, from an estimated 0.7 million tonnes in three years. 

State pollution control boards (SPCB), including those of Goa, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and Punjab had completed the inventorisation of e-waste generation under the E-Waste (Management) Rules, 2016. But the inventory for each state in the country was not available, Supriyo said.

Read more at :As told to Parliament (September 23, 2020): E-waste up 43% in 3 years