The Haryana government has decided to set up a carbon credit cell, which would guide the local entrepreneurs to adopt the relevant technology to earn carbon credits.
While starting this here on Sunday, a spokesman of Haryana Industries and Commerce Department said that a pilot project for development of eco-city was being taken up on pilot basis within the Manesar-Bawal investment region of Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) by a consortium of Japanese companies.
He said that the state government in the new Industrial and investment policy has committed towards its responsibility in promoting a clean and green environment. It intended to accord environment the status of infrastructure.
He said that the state government has taken a number of initiatives to encourage environment management by rational use of resources, environment audit and taking measures to reduce pollution load, waste recovery, recycling and waste recharge besides focusing on adoption of clean process technology.
The government also intended to gain carbon credits and reduce carbon foot prints in the industrial sectors. It will provide greater opportunity to the people willing to take the benefit of green business.
He said that conservation and efficient management of water resources has been declared as the focus area and priority of the government. The Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (HSIIDC) would lay dual pipe-lines for supply of fresh and treated water so as to target a situation of zero discharge from its specific industrial sectors within a reasonable time-frame.
He pointed out that while the new Industrial and Investment Policy replaces the Industrial Policy of 2005, all actions taken under the previous policies or commitments made under those policies would remain protected.