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Its implementation is guided by ve key focus areas:

• Reducing water consumption through improved process controls and best management
practices.
• Minimizing wastewater generation and chemical use by promoting green technologies

and better chemical management systems.
• Strengthening Efuent Treatment Plants (ETPs) to ensure effective treatment of
industrial wastewater before discharge.
• Enhancing occupational health and safety, beneting nearly 10,000 workers through
training, awareness, and workplace improvements.

• Building a multi-stakeholder platform that brings together industry, government, and
technical experts to encourage collaboration and knowledge sharing.

Early Results and "Across South Asia, where
Environmental Benets textile pollution is an urgent

The project is working towards and growing crisis, the Panipat
achieving up to 30% reduction experience offers something
in water consumption and rare-a model that works on the
25% reduction in chemical ground, backed by the kind of

use during textile processing. public-private commitment
By reducing pollution at its that can actually move the
These improvements not only
source, the initiative directly needle at scale."
reduce pollution but also
contributes to improving the As India advances towards
enhance operational efciency
health of the Yamuna River, a sustainable industrial growth,
and lower production costs.
major tributary of the Ganga. the Panipat model offers a
Another key outcome is the
Cleaner production practices blueprint for cleaner
promotion of treated
and improved wastewater
manufacturing. By reducing
wastewater reuse and management support NMCG's
water use, minimizing
recycling, encouraging basin-wide approach to river
chemical consumption,
industries to adopt circular rejuvenation, which integrates
improving wastewater
water management practices pollution prevention,
treatment, enhancing worker
in line with government sustainable water use, and
safety, and fostering
stakeholder participation.
regulations. At the same time,
A Replicable Model for the collaborative governance, the
greater awareness around
Future initiative is helping protect the
environmental compliance
The Panipat Textile Project Yamuna River while
and responsible production is
demonstrates how demonstrating that industrial
helping build a culture of
partnerships between development and
sustainable industrial
government, industry, and environmental stewardship
development. development organizations can go hand in hand.
can drive meaningful

environmental change. As
Tatheer Zaidi, Asia Head,
Pollution Management in
MSMEs at Solidaridad, notes:
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