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Weighing in the environmental perspective for sustained growth, the Ministry of Shipping has started ‘Project Green Ports' which will help in making the Major Ports across India cleaner and greener. ‘Project Green Ports' will have two verticals - one is ‘Green Ports Initiatives' related to environmental issues and second is ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan'.

The Green Port Initiatives include twelve initiatives which will be implemented under strict time bound fashion in order to achieve the targets. Some of these initiatives are preparation and monitoring plan, acquiring equipments required for monitoring environmental pollution, acquiring dust suppression system, setting up of sewage/waste water treatment plants/ garbage disposal plant, setting up projects for energy generation from renewable energy sources, completion of shortfalls of Oil Spill Response (OSR) facilities (Tier-1), prohibition of disposal of almost all kind of garbage at sea, improving the quality of harbour wastes etc.

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