Environmental performance in Indian corporate is typically an ad-hoc and restricted to compliance aspects, however NMDC Ltd follows a proactive approach instead of compliance approach. The likely environmental impacts of the mining activities and other allied activities are assessed prior to the commissioning of the production in the mines. Consequently pollution control measures and environmental improvement works along with massive afforestation programmes are planned based on the anticipated extent of the significant impact and for successful control of the impact.

A week after Greenpeace volunteers held a candle-light protest in Colaba against the upcoming Dhamra Port project in Orissa, the Dhamra Port Company Ltd (DPCL) hit back on Monday, stating that they had already replied to the concerns of environmentalists in great detail and that "the campaign (against DPCL) is malicious and personalised'.

What Erin Brockovich, a twice-divorced mother of two and a legal clerk, did to the small South Californian town Hinkley by taking on a corporation as huge as PG&E is part of American activism history Sukinda, in Orissa, has . not been as lucky despite scores of citizens' reports, environment assessment studies and a green brigade's non-relenting crusade.

For the average Indian, Tata stands for ethics, responsibility and environmental consciousness. As a corporate, Tata Steel boasts of a stringent code of environmental conduct. However, there are paradoxes galore in Tata's social and environmental record, including its ventures in Kalinga Nagar, Singur, Sukhinda, Mithapur and Bhopal. The port at Dhamra, a joint venture between Tata Steel and Larsen &Toubro, will be the latest in that list unless the company puts its environmental theory into practice before it is too late.