Category Center for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development

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Programme for Accelerated Renewal and Incentivization of Vehicle Assets for Reducing Transport Air Pollution and Network Emissions (PARIVARTAN), 2026

The PARIVARTAN (Programme for Accelerated Renewal and Incentivization of Vehicle Assets for Reducing Transport Air Pollution and Network Emissions) Scheme, 2026 is a Government of India initiative aimed at reducing vehicular pollution in the Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR). The scheme addresses emissions from ageing commercial trucks and buses, which are significant contributors to particulate matter (PM), nitrogen oxides (NOx), and other pollutants in the NCR.

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Urban Flood Management Programme (2024): Assessing Flood Resilience in India’s Seven Most Populous Cities

India's seven most populous cities, home to a large share of the country's urban population and an even larger share of its economic output, have in recent years become synonymous with monsoon paralysis: waterlogged arterial roads, submerged metro and airport approaches, and, in the worst years, loss of life.

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SATAT (Sustainable Alternative Towards Affordable Transportation), 2018: Building India’s Compressed Bioenergy Economy

India’s shift towards cleaner energy is also closely linked to how efficiently its existing domestic resources can be turned into commercially useful energy. The Sustainable Alternative Towards Affordable Transportation (SATAT), launched by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas in October 2018, was introduced to create an ecosystem for producing Compressed Bio-Gas (CBG) from waste and biomass and to encourage its use alongside natural gas.

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National Programme on Energy Storage (2021): Strengthening India’s Clean Energy Transition

India's power system is adding clean generation faster than it can store it. Installed generation capacity stood at 520.5 GW on 31 January 2026. The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) projects 1,121 GW by 2035-36, with non-fossil sources rising to about 70% of capacity from about 52% today (CEA, 2026).

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Air Pollution as a Blind Spot of Indian Industrial Policy

In 2011, manufacturing still accounted for just over 16% of India's GDP (Government of India, 2011). To reverse this trend, the government launched the National Manufacturing Policy (NMP), with two numerical targets for 2022, raising this share to 25% of GDP and creating 100 million jobs (Government of India, 2011).

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Policy for Auction of Coal Linkage for Seamless, Efficient & Transparent Utilisation (CoalSETU), 2025

CoalSETU gives industrial users greater flexibility within the existing linkage system while retaining auction-based allocation. According to the Ministry of Coal, the window permits coal use for industrial purposes, washing and exports, while barring domestic resale and it also excludes coking coal coal is also excluded. E%e capped at 50 per cent of the linkage quantity.

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