The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), on October 08, 2025, notified regarding the Standard Operating Procedure [SOP] for obtaining comments from State Pollution Control Boards (SPCBs) / Pollution Control Committees (PCCs), through PARIVESH Portal, under the provision of the Ministry's OM dated January 14, 2025.
The following has been stated, namely:-
• To enable Regulatory Authorities (Ministry/SEIAA) in obtaining comments from State Pollution Control Boards (SPCBs) / Pollution Control Committees (PCCs), in accordance with the procedure outlined in Ministry's OM dated 14.01.2025, entire workflow for appraising proposals of prior EC which have exemption from obtaining CTE separately has been automated through the PARIVESH Portal.
• All EC proposals shall be dealt through PARIVESH as per the procedure defined in the OM dated 14/01/2025. Therefore, all Member Secretaries of SPCBs/PCCs are requested to furnish comments within the prescribed timelines through the PARIVESH Portal for further consideration on the EC proposals by the Regulatory Authority concerned. Detailed step by step workflow to be followed by SPCBs/PCCs on PARIVESH Portal is given in the Annexure.
[Notification No. Q-15012/2/2022-CPW(Part-I)/e-231973]
