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Transforming Panipat: A Model for

Sustainable Textile Production

and Cleaner Rivers

The textile sector is one of posed a signicant threat to It promotes
source.
India's largest industries, the Yamuna River, sustainable textile

employing over 45 million highlighting the need for manufacturing by improving
water-use efciency, reducing
people and contributing cleaner and more sustainable
chemical consumption,
nearly 2% to the country's production practices.
GDP. While it plays a vital role strengthening occupational
To address this challenge, the
health and safety, encouraging
in economic growth, textile National Mission for Clean
manufacturing is also highly eco-friendly technologies, and
Ganga (NMCG), in partnership
resource-intensive, consum- establishing testing and
with Solidaridad, launched the
ing signicant amounts of demonstration facilities across
"Pollution Prevention and
water, energy, and chemicals 45 textile industries within the
Effective Waste Management
while generating large vol- cluster.
of Panipat Textile Cluster"
umes of wastewater.
project in 2023. The initiative
A striking example is Panipat,
aims to balance industrial
Haryana, India's leading
growth with environmental
textile recycling and home
sustainability while creating a
furnishing hub. Spread across
scalable model for other textile
nearly 90 acres, the Panipat
clusters across India.
textile cluster comprises
A Comprehensive Approach
around 400 registered dyeing
to Cleaner Production
units employing approxi-
The project recognizes that
mately 1.5 lakh workers. Over
river rejuvenation begins with
the years, industrial efuents
preventing pollution at its
from the cluster have

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