Lok Sabha Question No. 2515 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-03-09
Subject: Forest Management Certification Standard
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT,  FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: Tejpratap Singh,Yadav, B. SREERAMULU, ANJU BALA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.  2515

TO BE ANSWERED ON 09.03.2018

## Forest Management Certification Standard

## 2515.   SHRI TEJ PRATAP SINGH YADAV:

SHRI B.SRIRAMULU:

SHRIMATI ANJU BALA:

Will  the  Minister  of  ENVIRONMENT,  FOREST  AND  CLIMATE  CHANGE  be  pleased  to state:

- (a) whether the Government has recently launched India's country specific and internationally  benchmarked  Forest  Management  Certification  Standard  and  if  so,  the details thereof;
- (b) whether  the  Ministry  of  Environment,  Forest  and  Climate  Change  (MoEF&CC)  in partnership  with  Network  for  Certification  and  Conservation  of  Forests  (NCCF)  is simultaneously developing the certification standards for the Trees outside Forests (ToF) and Non-Wood Forest Products (NWFPs) and if so, the details thereof;
- (c) whether  the  MoEF&CC  has  also  launched  the  National  Certification  Scheme  for Sustainable Forest Management and if so, the details thereof; and
- (d) the details of initiatives taken by the Government  in  the field of  environment reforms/standardization during the last five years?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER  OF  STATE  IN  THE  MINISTRY  OF  ENVIRONMENT,  FOREST  AND CLIMATE CHANGE (DR. MAHESH SHARMA)

- (a) & (b) No,  Madam.  Government  of  India  has  not  launched  any  country  specific  and internationally benchmarked Forest Management Certification Standard, neither

it has made any partnership with any organization for developing the certification standards  for  the  Trees  Outside  Forests  (ToF)  and  Non-Wood  Forest  Products (NWFPs).

- (c) Ministry  of  Environment,  Forest  and  Climate  Change  (MoEF&CC)  has  not launched any National Certification Scheme for Sustainable Forest Management.
- (d) The  details  of  initiatives  taken  by  the  Government  in  the  field  of  environment reforms/standardization during the last five years are as follows:-
- (i) Institutionalising online environmental clearance and CRZ clearance.
- (ii) Revision  of  classification  of  industries  in  Red,  Orange,  Green  and  White categories making the criteria transparent and objective.
- (iii)Revision of Comprehensive Environmental Pollution Index (CEPI) bringing objectivity and transparency. (iv) Online monitoring of industrial pollution. (v) Online monitoring of water quality in river Ganga and Yamuna. (vi) Online monitoring of air pollution in key cities. (vii) Streamlining  of  environmental  clearance  with  respect  to  industrial  sheds, education sector, linear projects. (viii) Standardization of terms of reference for Environmental Clearance/TOR. Digitisation of high tide line, low tide line, hazard line, sedimentation cell,
- (ix) etc for improving coastal management.
- (x) Revision of rules related to (a) solid waste management (b) hazardous waste management  (c)  plastic  waste  management  (d)  e-waste  management,  (e) construction  and  demolition  waste  management,  and  (f)  biomedical  waste management, etc.

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