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Industrial Hazardous Waste Management by Government of Gujarat
Authors: Anita S. Ahuja and Sachin D. Abda
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Gujarat has emerged as one of the leading industrial state with tremendous growth in India. The state has attracted
the most foreign direct investment and is now one of the favoured industrial investment destinations. FDI accounts for the 22
percentage of countries investment flow and Gujarat is leading FDI investment. By the initiative taken by Gujarat government
recently vibrant Gujarat 7th global submit 2015 Gujarat has came forth with many investment plans and initiatives. The state’s
vision is to become the largest business hub in Asia. Any such development activity puts pressure on resources. With increase
in industrial development the production of the industrial waste has increased on a rapid pace too. Gujarat has 7751
hazardous waste generating units contributing to 28.76 percentage of waste generation in India. With that the Hazardous
waste management is issue of very importance, assuming significance globally, the adverse impacts caused due to
indiscriminate disposal of hazardous material comes under environment disaster. Based on this the researchers here want to
know various types of hazardous waste produced by industrial sector in Gujarat, To know the negative impacts on environment
of this hazardous waste, to gain knowledge about various steps taken by Government of Gujarat to manage Hazardous wastes
and To get an information about the best alternative selected by Government of Gujarat to manage Hazardous wastes by
comparing all the options taken by Government of Gujarat to manage Hazardous waste as if all the steps for managing waste
are not similar in their results, some of them produce good results while others are causing harm to environment. Researchers
had focused on secondary sources for data, mainly from research papers, government articles, websites & literature, after
collecting data researchers will try to analyze the data for achieving mentioned objectives. After this research researchers are
expecting they will get information on types of hazardous waste and their consequences on environment, apart from this they
are expecting to get information on initiatives by Government of Gujarat to manage waste and the best alternative applied by
Government of Gujarat to manage Hazardous waste and with that the future proceeding planned by the Gujarat Governance
for the further hazardous waste management. This observation will be helpful to Government of Gujarat for improving their
prevailing practices, with that it can be helpful to the other state government bodies for managing hazardous wastes also
further research work can be done on the basis of this study.