Environmental Audit: A Need for Sustainable Development of Mining Industry

Dr. R. P. Choudhary

Abstract

The last decade of the 20th century has been regarded as the decade of the environment. Environmental auditing is fast emerging as a key practice among industries in India. An environmental audit is one tool that can be used by an organization, in the context of its environmental management system, to help determine its environmental performance. The concept of environmental auditing is promoting the use of clean technologies in industrial production to minimize generation of waste. An attempt has been made to understand and classify the environmental audit in Indian mining industry, and the role of Supreme Audit Institution (SAI) in Indian mining industry.

Keywords

Environmental audit, Sustainable development, SAI, CSR, accountability

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D. R. P. Choudhary "Environmental Audit: A Need for Sustainable Development of Mining Industry", International Journal of Innovative Research in Engineering & Management (IJIREM), Vol-2, Issue-4, Page No-35-39, 2015. Available from: