Small-scale industries: Where regulations are meaningless and pollution control an unaffordable luxury. Can they leapfrog to cost-effective technologies and find shelter in policies that provide reservation in pollution-free sectors?

Resource crunch and poor regulatory processes have made small-scale industries the pariahs of India"s environment

Government proposes. Industry disposes. Programmes for cleaning up have very largely gone by the wayside

A green agenda based on the paradigm of pollution prevention can rescue the small scale industry