Grasim Industries Ltd

One Leaf CompanySCORE 20.65%RANK TWENTY FIVE

SIV:On the comeback trail

BILT Ballarpur

Two Leaves CompanySCORE 33.44%RANK THREE

Andhra Pradesh Paper Mills Ltd

Three Leaves CompanySCORE 38.50%RANK TWO

J K Paper Mills

Three Leaves CompanySCORE 42.75%RANK ONE

The Report Card

Opening the account

As the rating progressed, industry opened up

Network: reaching out

Civil society members become a part of GRP

The audit panel

The sounding board

The nitty-gritties

Adopting a comprehensive rating approach

Needed: People's participation

Communities and state governments have to play a more important role

Hassan: Holding on

MRC's operations are still going on in this Karnataka district, but their fate is uncertain

Kheda: Forgotten glory

This is where it all started. And now, there is no sign of past successes

Chennai: beginning of a new policy

New bye-laws might help in dealing with malaria

Pondichery: The gnats live on

Even the memory of initial success of bioenvironmental approach has been wiped off

Goa: Back to square one

For mysterious reasons, the state government is highly sceptical of the MRC's work

Mass movement

Green politics

Is your government signing away your future rights to the world's natural resources?

Controlling water

People in Andhra Pradesh now need official consent to sink new wells

International pressure and the civil society

The beacon

Several social groups are trying to restore the link between Hinduism and the environment

Erosion of values

...and how it leads to environmental degradation

Up in smoke

National programme on improved chulhas put on ice

MAIght of OECD

A no-holds-barred treaty on investments would hand over the world on a platter to MNCs