It was launched in 2009 with the aim of categorizing critically polluted industrial areas based on scientific criteria, so as to ascertain various dimensions of pollution.
It is a combined framework used to evaluate the impacts caused by industrial clusters on the nearby environment, as a numerical value.
It was developed by Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in collaboration with IIT Delhi. It was revised in 2016 by abolishing few subjective factorials. The evaluated CEPI score reflects the environmental quality of the identified industrial clusters and is a yardstick to assess the progress achieved in the implementation of pollution mitigation measures.
