| HAZARDOUS
WASTE MANAGEMENT |
WORLD BANK ASSISTD PROJECT ON HAZARDOUGS WASTE MANAGEMENT :
The objective of the project is to assist in the implementation of a modern and
sustainable hazardous waste management (HWM) system in the country. The specific
goals are to: (i) promote the development of a comprehensive monitoring and enforcement
system for timely implementation of the hazardous waste management rules and other
concerned legislations; (ii) assist in the implementation of training and awareness
programmes in HWM and support for development of background data for policy-making.
The project will comprise three components; (i) Institutional (ii) Technical assistance,
and (iii) Investment.
Institution Components:
This component
is designed to support a programme of activities aimed at strengthening the monitoring
and enforcement capacity of the State Pollution Control Boards in those States
where the most serious hazardous waste concerns have arisen. These are the States
of Andra Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu. The key themes of the programme
include:
- Strengthening
of analytical capability
- Institutionalization
of the planning process;
- Improving
the informationmanagemetn process;
- Preparation
of inventories of hazardous waste;
- Identification
and notification of sites for destruction and disposal of residues;
- Organization
of a community out-reach effort; and
-
Training
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Investment
Component: This is designed to support priority investment in hazardous waste
management. Primarily, this project will assist in the minimization of hazardous
wastes generation. The emphasis is on preventing future discharges of hazardous
wastes by the promoting actions that will result in the avoidance, recycle or
recovery of otherwise hazardous effluents. However, in some cases generation of
hazardous waste cannot be avoided and may require destruction and/or ultimately,
disposal. For those cases, where destruction and disposal is required by medium
and small-scale generators, the project will assist in the introduction of institutional
models and technologies to be used for the proper ultimate destruction and safe
disposal of hazardous residues from these operations.
The centralized
treatment and disposal facilities (CTDF) of hazardous wastes will also be funded
as follows: 9i) projects sponsors are expected to provide for atlas 25% of the
total project cost (ii) Central Govt. will allocate a direct grant to eligible
CTDFs equivalent to up 15% of the total cost; (iii) the balance will be financed
through the proceeds of lines of credit with ICICI and Bank of Boards and/or other
domestic loans.
Technical Assistance Component: This component
will support activities designed to complement the Boards and improve the participation
and access of the general public information regarding management of hazardous
waste in the country and other activities of technical nature. This includes:
(i) support for the expansion of waste minimization circles: (ii) development
of strategy for containment and disposal of PCBs (iii) development of an approach
to clean the contaminated sites; (iv) other technical studies; and finally,(v)
the project will also support for a limited effort to promote development of technology
for waste minimization and prevention of hazardous waste residues. This will be
done through the use direct grants cover up to 40% of the cost of innovative,
first-of-a-kind implementations of technology at a commercial scale dealing with
the avoidance, minimization or recycle of hazardous residues of substances.
