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INDO-GERMAN BILATERAL PROJECT ON STRENGTHENING OF CENTRAL & STATE POLLUTION CONTROL
BOARDS :
Under the bilateral co-operation programme between India and Germany, project
on 'Strengthening of Central and State Pollution Control Boards has been taken
up. The project is implemented by CPCB (India part) and GTZ (German counterpart).
Among other things, this project has a component on hazardous waste management.
The activities under this project are:
- Prepare
a concept according to standard international practical for compiling a catalogue
for identifying categorizing and quantifying hazardous waste;
- Compile
all hazardous waste categories generated in India in co-operation with SPCBs including
recommendations for treatment, recycling option and import permissions;
- Elaborate
a national framework plan for hazardous waste treatment facilities based on district
level inventories;
- Compile
methods for identification test of hazardous waste for SPCBs and customs authorities;
- Review
standards and guidelines for environmentally suitable hazardous waste handling
and management;
- Develop
guidelines for the licensing procedure of hazardous waste management facilities
and introduce it in one State for demonstration
- Implement
the manifest system in one SPCB (pilot phase in Karnataka); and
- Establish
close co-operation between CBCB and NPC-ED (TC project in industrial Pollution
Control) in environmentally suitable hazardous waste management.
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