Now, government focuses on Ease of Doing Responsible Business!

a. Ease of Doing Business

b. Ease of Doing Responsible Business

c. Ease of Doing Responsible Business Operations

d. Ease of Doing Responsible Business Operations

 

Government has put in place a new framework and an institutional structure for streamlining the environmental clearance for building and construction sector moving towards decentralisation, delegation of powers and enhancing the Ease of Doing Responsible Business.

The States will forward the proposed changes in their building bye-laws and rules to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, who in turn will examine the said draft bye-laws and rules and convey the concurrence to the State Governments.

The important features of the amendment are:

• Under the revised norms, the environmental clearance will now be issued in an integrated manner along with the building permission under building bye laws for all building constructions covering 20,000 to 1,50,000 sq. mtr. of built up area.
• Environmental clearance for built up areas from 1,50,000 to 3,00,000 sq. mtr. will be given by the State Level Authorities subject to EIA while the areas above 3,00,000 sq. mtr. will be approved and cleared by the Union Government.
• Area less than 20,000 sq. mtr. will be subject to a self declaration. However, the buildings of size 5000 sq. mtr. to 20,000 sq. mtr. will also follow environmental norms for construction and maintenance phase.
• Qualified Building Environment Auditors as empanelled by the MoEFCC would assess and certify the building projects.
• For the first time the provision of self-declaration for compliance and also certification by Qualified Building Environment Auditors have been introduced for building and environmental clearance.
• Environmental Cell in the local authorities will be created to support appraisal, compliance and monitoring of building projects and to provide environmental planning in this area.
• After completion of the project, the Cell shall randomly check the projects compliance status including the five years audit report.
• The State Governments will enact the suitable law for imposing penalties for non-compliances of the environmental conditions and parameters.
• The cases of false declaration or certification shall be reported to the accreditation body and to the local body for blacklisting of Qualified Building Environment Auditors.
• It will also attract a financial penalty on the owner and Qualified Building Environment Auditors.

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