industrial policy, its spatial aspects and cluster development in ...

• Pilot projects that help demonstrate costs and benefits of private investment in
cleaner production technologies, e.g., CO2 recovery, should be initiated as part of
awareness raising campaigns. Similarly, awareness raising seminars and training
programs should also be used to harness full benefits of cleaner production
programs.
• A policy for cleaner production needs to be devised that offers tax incentives and
tax rebates to compliant firms and to firms who want to establish Effluent
Treatment Plants. These incentives should also apply to those who get ISO 14001
certifications.
• Offer tax incentives to encourage private sector to set up quality testing and
certification laboratory facilities in all sectors, especially those relating to textiles,
sugar, leather and pulp and paper sectors.
• Allocate funds for next ten years to set up well designed landfill sites for disposal
of hazardous and non-hazardous industrial solid waste and installation of Hi-tech
incinerators.
• The existing National Environmental Quality Standards (NEQS) were developed
in isolation without consulting all the stakeholders. That is the reason why these
Standards are non-productive and hard to implement in their present form.
There is a need to revise the NEQS in consultation with all the stakeholders. The
new NEQS should be industry/sector specific and should be based on the ground
realities.
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