Fiscal Instruments for Pollution Abatement

• Completion date जनवरी., 1997
• Sponsor Ministry of Environment and Forests
• Project leader Rita Pandey
• Consultants/Other authors B.N. Goldar
• Focus

  This paper, presented at the 1997 Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance, Kyoto, analyses the scope of using pollution tax for inducing distilleries to undertake adequate pollution abatement. Using a non-linear programming model, the study examines various choices available to a distillery, including the use of clean water for dilution of the stream of waste water. The results of the study emphasise that pollution tax has to be coupled with appropriate pricing of ground water to ensure that pollution abatement is undertaken to the desired extent.