Industry and business are increasingly concerned about achieving and demonstrating sound environment performance, because of compulsions from stringent legislation.

The Ministry of Environment and Forests is the nodal agency at the Central level for planning, promoting and coordinating the environmental programmes, apart from policy formulation. A number of enforcement agencies assist the Ministry of Environment and Forests, in executing the assigned responsibilities.

The industrial pollution prevention and control, are primarily executed by Pollution Control Board at the central level, which is a statutory authority attached to the Ministry of Environment and Forests. At the State level, the State Departments of Environment and State Pollution Control Boards are the designated agencies to perform these functions.