Green Responsibility Guidelines for Indian Companies

In 2012, Ministry of Environment & Forests released a circular that makes it mandatory for companies to incorporate an environmental responsibility policy document in their applications while seeking the terms of reference for an Environment Impact Assessment.

According to this, the companies setting up new projects will need to spell out how they propose to protect the environment, and how much cost such steps will entail. It is the first time the government has sought to enforce environmental responsibility as a precondition. An Environment Ministry Should the policy fail to satisfy the ministry’s various panels that evaluate applications, these panels can call for a fresh application.