The planning commission is in the process of developing an Environmental performance index (EPI) to incentivise states for environmental performance through budgetary allocations. The major aspects taken into account for this are Air pollution, Forest, water quality, water management and Climate change. The state-wise EPI and ranking are given below.
| State/UT | Final EPI 2012 | Rank |
| Andhra Pradesh |
0.7898 |
1 |
| Sikkim |
0.7478 |
2 |
| Himachal Pradesh |
0.7414 |
3 |
| Madhya Pradesh |
0.7334 |
4 |
| Maharashtra |
0.7167 |
5 |
| Odisha |
0.7118 |
6 |
| Gujarat |
0.6944 |
7 |
| Karnataka |
0.6851 |
8 |
| Tamil Nadu |
0.6616 |
9 |
| Meghalaya |
0.6524 |
10 |
| Chhattisgarh |
0.6478 |
11 |
| Mizoram |
0.6448 |
12 |
| Chandigarh |
0.643 |
13 |
| Assam |
0.6426 |
14 |
| Kerala |
0.6311 |
15 |
| Uttarakhand |
0.6142 |
16 |
| Goa |
0.5991 |
17 |
| Rajastan |
0.5905 |
18 |
| Puducherry |
0.5636 |
19 |
| Tripura |
0.5624 |
20 |
| Jharkhand |
0.5491 |
21 |
| Jammu & Kashmir |
0.5483 |
22 |
| Punjab |
0.546 |
23 |
| Uttar Pradesh |
0.5388 |
24 |
| West Bengal |
0.533 |
25 |
| Nagaland |
0.496 |
26 |
| Haryana |
0.4933 |
27 |
| Manipur |
0.4811 |
28 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli |
0.4684 |
29 |
| Bihar |
0.4494 |
30 |
| Arunachal Pradesh |
0.431 |
31 |
| Delhi |
0.4246 |
32 |
| Daman and Diu |
0.3944 |
33 |
| Andaman & Nicobar Islands |
0.3072 |
34 |
| Lakshadweep |
0.2925 |
35 |
This information was given by Shri Rajiv Shukla, the Minister of state for Parliamentary affairs and Planning, in written reply to a question in the Loksabha today.
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