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Opaqueness of environmental information in India [1]

The poor record of public and private sector industries across sectors to submit the mandatory environmental information on an annual basis reveals the shortcomings of the existing environmental regulatory process. This article attempts to evaluate the current status of firm level environmental information available with the regulators and suggests some measures to streamline, standardise, and strengthen the current regulatory system to enable better compliance by firms.

Publication Date: 
23/07/2016
Shivananda Shetty [2], Surender Kumar [3]
Economic and Political Weekly [4]
51
30
15-19
Tags:
Environment [5], Information [6], India [7], Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF) [8], Industry [9], Environment Act 1986 [10], State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) [11], Statistics [12]
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