In order to facilitate the Indian Textile Industry to become globally competitive using environmentally friendly processing standards and technology, and to address the issues of pollution in the textile processing sector, the Ministry has been implementing Integrated Processing Development Scheme since 12th FYP to support new Common Effluent Treatment Plants (CETP)/ upgradation of CETPs in existing processing clusters as well as new processing parks. The scheme was under implementation till 2021; after that the scheme has been continued to meet committed liabilities only.

The details of the projects approved under the scheme and their present status is as below:

                         (In crore)

S. No.	Name of the Project	State	District	Project Cost	GoI Grant Released
1	Balotra Water Pollution Control Treatment & Reverse Osmosis Private Ltd	Rajasthan	Barmer	128.25	64.125
2	Jasol Water Pollution Control Treatment & Reverse Osmosis Private Limited	Rajasthan	Barmer	38.5	14.43
3	Sanganer Enviro Project Development	Rajasthan	Jaipur	159	37.5
4	Nextgen Textile Park	Rajasthan	Pali	129.42	6.3
5	Pali Common Effluent Treatment Plant	Rajasthan	Pali	100	37.5
6	Gujarat Eco Textile Park	Gujarat	Palsana	146.39	54.84
TOTAL				701.56	214.70

The parks approved under the Scheme are implementing Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) technology. Another technology being implementing is Multi Effect Evaporator (MEE) which further helps in recovery of treated water.

This information was provided by THE MINISTER FOR TEXTILES SHRI GIRIRAJ SINGH in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today.

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