The Sustainable and Environment-friendly Industrial Production (SEIP-II) is a project undertaken by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) together with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. The project is a part of the IndoGerman Technical Cooperation. The SEIP project aims at enabling public and private stakeholders in India to come together for efficient, environment-friendly, and climate-friendly industrial development.
The first phase of SEIP was focused on undertaking demonstration projects and documenting learnings in the form of knowledge products. The first phase of SEIP was implemented from 2015 to 2019. It focused on issues pertaining to wastewater conveyance, treatment, recycle/reuse, waste management, monitoring, process modification in individual industries, etc. For undertaking the demonstration activities, five industrial estates were chosen across three states (Uttarakhand, Delhi and Gujarat). Some of the outputs of this phase included publication of sustainability standards, development of digital platforms for industrial estates as well as training and skill development.
The second phase of SEIP (from March 2019 to February 2022) aims at creating an enabling environment for scaling up the efforts of the first phase. SEIP now focusses on four key outputs viz. strengthening of the legal framework, strengthening organizational procedures and processes, strengthening of incentive mechanism and strengthening of knowledge products. At the national level, the key stakeholder for this phase are Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MOEFCC) along with the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). At the state level, this phase of the project would have activities in the states of Uttarakhand, West Bengal and Bihar.
As a part of the project, Gaps and Needs Analysis
Studies (Baseline studies) had been initiated by GIZ to assess the current situation for each of the above-mentioned the output. This was carried out at National level and in Uttarakhand (at State level) by consultants corresponding to each of the four outputs namely: Output 1- Strengthening of legal framework – Ernst & Young Output 2- Strengthening of Organisational structures and processes – Deloitte Output 3- Incentive mechanisms to reduce industrial pollution – CRISIL Output 4- Knowledge products – National Productivity Council Output 5- Resource efficiency (RE) and sustainable consumption & production (SCP) – National Productivity Council
While the consultants corresponding to each of the four outputs had completed an initial assessment of gaps, there was a need to verify this with stakeholders at the ground level. Consequently, a Stakeholder Consultation Workshop on “ Gaps and Needs Analysis on Industrial Wastewater Management” was
organized on 22nd November 2019, New Delhi by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH together with Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change (MoEFCC) and Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).
The intention behind the organized workshop was to share and verify the initial gaps identified under each of the four outputs and obtain feedback on the findings of the identified gaps and needs pertaining to legal framework, institutional framework, incentive mechanisms and knowledge products (guidelines, methods, resource efficiency approaches etc.). The finalised needs will help the SEIP II project to prioritise them and start working on solutions in consultation with MoEFCC, CPCB and other partner organisations in the States of Uttarakhand, Bihar and West Bengal.
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