Industrial Environmental Improvement Drive
Best Practice Example

Main features and components

Various activities are carried out throughout the month such as awareness drives, cleanliness drive and plantation drive, besides developing a model street for industrial estate, free sapling distribution etc. The drive is an attempt to initiate positive actions for environmental improvement in the industrial areas through voluntary participation of industries and other stakeholders.

Implementation / work steps

The drive from 2014, for instance, aimed at bringing in environmental awareness and initiated the process of retrofitting the existing Industrial Parks in Andhra Pradesh into environmental friendly Industrial Parks.

The following activities are proposed to be taken up during this drive:

1. Interactive Meets

2. Cleanliness Drive: cleaning solid wastes and storm water drains in the selected Industrial Parks

     a. Municipal Solid Waste Management

     b. Storm Water Drains Management 

3. Plantation

4. Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy measures

5. Awareness Programmes on various environmental aspects including eco-profit concepts and self-resource auditing through interactive meets with the environmental subject specialists

6. Corporate Social Responsibility

Output

• The drive saw a lot of success in removal of waste dumps, in undertaking plantation, in activities at industry level.
• Overall, the initiative gave sparked hope that the industries can become agents of change in support of sustainable and equitable development.
• Both the large industrial estates in Vapi and Vatva have decided (June-July 2016) to continue with the drive at least for a year to enable visible impact.