Abstract

Environmental status reporting is crucial for measurement of environmental quality and performance. Today for every city in India, publication of environmental status report (ESR) is mandatory. However, it is important to know how far the cities report exhaustively about all the variables impacting environment and thus enable us to get the correct picture of environmental performance. Maharashtra Pollution Control Board has developed an Indicator Framework Approach to evaluate ESRs and construct environment performance index (EPI). In this paper, we have applied MPCB’s methodology to assess Thane Municipal Corporation’s (TMC’s) environmental reporting and performance using the data provided in ESR of 2012.We found that EPI of Thane is modest and based on inadequate data. We recommend that TMC needs to improve environmental reporting as well as performance of Thane city.

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