Lok Sabha Question No. 2271 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2020-09-23
Subject: Integrated Regional Offices
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT,  FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: Sushil Kumar Singh

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 2271

TO BE ASWERED ON 23.09.2020

## Integrated Regional Offices

## 2271. SHRI SUSHIL KUMAR SINGH:

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

- (a) whether the Ministry has recently set up 19 Integrated Regional Offices (IROs);
- (b) if so, the details thereof; and
- (c) the reasons, objectives/benefits for carrying out such an exercise?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER  OF  STATE  IN  THE  MINISTRY  OF  ENVIRONMENT,  FOREST  AND CLIMATE CHANGE (SHRI BABUL SUPRIYO)

- (a)        Yes  Sir,  the  Ministry  of  Environment,  Forest  and  Climate  Change  has  set  up  19 Integrated  Regional  Offices  (IROs)  vide  Notification  No  1-5/2013-ROHQ  dated 13.08.2020.
- (b) The headquarters and jurisdictions of the 19 IROs are as under:
- (c) With a view to achieve outcomes related to the mandates of Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) in an improved, timely and effective manner, and for this purpose to further enhance its outreach to stakeholders, undertake coordinated action and  optimize  the  utilization  of  available  resources,  the  competent  authority  has  approved establishment of 19 Integrated Regional Offices  (IROs) of the MoEF&CC. Each of the 19 Integrated  Regional  Offices  (IROs)  shall  work  as  an  integrated  regional  unit  of  the MoEF&CC in achieving the outcomes related to the mandate of this Ministry enumerated in Government of India (Allocation of Business) Rules 1961 as modified from time to time.

| Sl. No.   | Headquarter of IRO   | States and UTs under jurisdiction    |
|-----------|----------------------|--------------------------------------|
| (i)       | Shillong             | Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Tripura |
| (ii)      | Ranchi               | Jharkhand, Bihar                     |
| (iii)     | Bhubaneswar          | Odisha                               |
| (iv)      | Bengaluru            | Karnataka, Kerala, Goa, Lakshadweep  |
| (v)       | Chennai              | Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, A&N Islands  |
| (vi)      | Lucknow              | Uttar Pradesh                        |
| (vii)     | Bhopal               | Madhya Pradesh                       |
| (viii)    | Nagpur               | Maharashtra                          |
| (ix)      | Chandigarh           | Chandigarh, Haryana, Punjab          |
| (x)       | Dehradun             | Uttarakhand                          |

| (xi)    | Jaipur       | Rajasthan, Delhi                         |
|---------|--------------|------------------------------------------|
| (xii)   | Gandhi Nagar | Gujarat, Daman &Diu, Dadra &Nagar Haveli |
| (xiii)  | Vijayawada   | Andhra Pradesh                           |
| (xiv)   | Raipur       | Chhattisgarh                             |
| (xv)    | Hyderabad    | Telangana                                |
| (xvi)   | Shimla       | Himachal Pradesh                         |
| (xvii)  | Kolkata      | West Bengal, Sikkim                      |
| (xviii) | Guwahati     | Assam, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh       |
| (xix)   | Jammu        | Ladakh, Jammu &Kashmir                   |

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