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Polluted Places: India

Total Project Cost : $340,000

PEP Financing : $250,000

Approval Date : 14 October 2004

Implementing Agency : Blacksmith Institute

Project Officer : Shunso Tsukada, India Resident Mission

Type of Intervention : Pilot Intervention

Objectives
The project aims to reduce levels of mortality and morbidity caused by chemical pollution in selected local communities in India and to strengthen local government and community capacity to initiate and undertake successful remediation efforts

Poverty-Environment Linkage
The project recognizes the adverse impact of industrial pollution to the socio-economic development of the poor communities in India and offers remediation approaches to reduce levels of mortality and morbidity caused by pollution

• Site assessment report
• Remediation Plans
• Completed Remediation of 2-3 sites
• Multi-stakeholders partnerships for cleaning up polluted sites
• Reduced levels of mortality and morbidity due to reduced levels of pollution
• Strengthened local government and community capacity to undertake remediation efforts

• Nomination and Assessment of selected industrial sites in India where chemical pollution has adversely affected local environmental quality and caused high levels of mortality and morbidity among local communities
• Development of remediation plans for the selected sites
• Remediation implementation in 2-3 sites
• Evaluation and Information Dissemination

Status : Ongoing

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