CPCB has evolved a Comprehensive Environmental Pollution Index (CEPI) for 88 study areas with an objective of identifying polluted clusters or areas in order to take concerted action and to centrally monitor them at the national level to improve the current status of their environmental components such as air and water quality, ecological damage and visual environmental conditions. As per the study of CPCB, Visakhapatnam area was considered as critically polluted area.Accordingly, APPCB has prepared the Final Action Plan on Critically Polluted Area of Visakhapatnam cluster taking into consideration the suggestions made by the In-House committee and the same is submitted to the Central Pollution Control Board, New Delhi for Consideration.