Half-Yearly EC Compliance Report: Green Belt Evidence

Environment and EHS managers at mines, plants, and infrastructure sites, and the consultants who prepare their filings, meet the same deadline twice a year. The half-yearly EC compliance report has to state the status of each condition in the environmental clearance. A green-belt condition is one of those lines. A planting-day count does not answer it. An inspection asks where the belt is, and whether it survived.

This guide is for those teams. It reads the six-monthly compliance report under the EIA Notification, 2006: the dates, the PARIVESH module, who the regulatory authority is, and what the notification says about websites. It then stays on green-belt conditions and the plantation evidence that condition needs. Mining programmes can keep that record in the Plant → Track → Report loop on mining greening.

This is a reading of public notifications and office memoranda. It is not legal advice. The condition in your EC letter controls.

Takeaways

• Paragraph 10 of the EIA Notification, 2006 sets the half-yearly report. It does not set a green-belt percentage.
• The dates in that paragraph are 1 June and 1 December. Submit the status of the conditions in the letter.
• Since the 14 June 2022 Office Memorandum, proponents file that report through the PARIVESH compliance module.
• A company-website copy is a condition in many letters. It is not the same sentence as paragraph 10.
• Keep a geo-tagged register, a survival resurvey, dated photos, and an export for each reporting period. Aranyix prepares that evidence. It does not file the report.

What the half-yearly report is

The EIA Notification, 2006 was issued as S.O. 1533(E) dated 14 September 2006 under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986. Projects and activities listed in its Schedule need prior environmental clearance. Paragraph 10 is headed “Post Environmental Clearance Monitoring.”

In the Ministry’s compilation of that notification as amended up to July 2026, paragraph 10(ii) reads that it shall be mandatory for the project management to submit half-yearly compliance reports in respect of the stipulated prior environmental clearance terms and conditions, in soft copies, to the regulatory authority concerned, on 1 June and 1 December of each calendar year. The compilation’s footnote attributes the “soft copies” wording to the substitution made by S.O. 5845(E) dated 26 November 2018, which replaced the words “hard and soft copies.” The compilation says that if it disagrees with the Gazette, the Gazette prevails.

Two limits follow from that sentence.

The report is about the conditions already written in the clearance. It is not a new national form with a fixed green-belt chapter. If the letter has a green-belt condition, that condition is one of the lines the report must answer. If it does not, do not invent one.

The notification names the dates. Paragraph 10 does not define which six calendar months sit behind the 1 June report and which sit behind the 1 December report. Use the reporting period the current PARIVESH form offers, and any period your EC letter names. The user manual annexed to the 14 June 2022 Office Memorandum lists the reporting-period choices as 1 June or 1 December.

Paragraph 10(i), re-numbered by S.O. 3067(E) dated 1 December 2009, is a different duty: making the clearance itself public, including newspaper publication and, for Category A, a permanent display on the project proponent’s website. Do not treat that as the half-yearly compliance report.

Who receives it, and where it is filed

Paragraph 2 of the notification names the regulatory authority by category. In the July 2026 compilation, that is the Central Government in the Ministry for Category A, the State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) for Category B, and, for Category B2 mining of minor minerals, the District Environment Impact Assessment Authority named there. Paragraph 10(ii) sends the half-yearly report to the regulatory authority concerned.

On 14 June 2022 the Ministry issued an Office Memorandum, F. No. IA3-22/1/2022-IA.III [E-172624], on submission of the six-monthly compliance report through a dedicated module in PARIVESH. PARIVESH (Pro-Active and Responsive facilitation by Interactive and Virtuous Environmental Single-window Hub) is the Ministry’s single-window portal, launched in August 2018. The memorandum directs all project proponents to submit the six-monthly compliance on the environmental conditions in the prior EC letter through that module, from their own login. If the project is not tagged to the login, the same memorandum says to add the project and upload the EC conditions, and it points to OM No. 4/1/2021-IA-III dated 4 August 2021 for that upload. This guide has not re-stated that August 2021 memorandum beyond what the June 2022 text says.

The user manual annexed to the June 2022 memorandum describes the fields that module was built to collect: reporting year, reporting period (1 June or 1 December), remarks, production and project-area details where those fields apply, a self-declaration with remarks against each EC condition, a supporting document for that declaration, an optional last site-visit report, an undertaking, and an e-authentication step before submit. Portal screens change. Follow the compliance module in the current PARIVESH login, and the manual on the portal, rather than a fixed click path from 2022.

The June 2022 memorandum notes that six-monthly reports were being sent to the Regional Offices as PDFs. It directs proponents to the PARIVESH module. It does not say that every other copy named in an EC letter has been withdrawn. Check the specific conditions in your EC letter for any further copy to a Regional Office of the Ministry, a zonal office of the Central Pollution Control Board, or the State Pollution Control Board.

An Office Memorandum dated 4 January 2019, file reference 22-34/2018-IA.III, issued standard environment-clearance conditions for a listed set of activities: airports; common hazardous-waste treatment, storage and disposal facilities; bio-medical waste treatment facilities; ports, harbours, breakwaters and dredging; aerial ropeways; common effluent treatment plants; common municipal solid-waste facilities; building and construction projects; and townships and area-development projects. Those standard conditions include this sentence: the project proponent shall submit six-monthly reports on the status of compliance of the stipulated environmental conditions on the website of the Ministry at the environment clearance portal. They also say the Regional Office of the Ministry shall monitor compliance of the stipulated conditions. The same memorandum says the Expert Appraisal Committee considers these conditions with due diligence and may modify them or add project-specific conditions. For a sector that memorandum does not cover, including most mining and industrial process projects, read the general conditions in the EC letter.

Does the report have to go on the proponent’s website?

Two different website duties are easy to mix up.

Paragraph 10(iii) of the notification says the compliance reports are public documents. Copies shall be given to any person on application to the concerned regulatory authority. The latest such compliance report shall also be displayed on the website of the concerned regulatory authority. That sentence puts the latest report on the authority’s site. It does not, by itself, put it on the company site.

A company-website duty shows up as a condition in the clearance. In the 4 January 2019 standard conditions, for the activities that memorandum covers, one condition says the project proponent shall upload the status of compliance of the stipulated environment clearance conditions, including results of monitored data, on their website and update the same on a half-yearly basis. A nearby condition requires the six-monthly report on the Ministry’s environment clearance portal. Another requires the environmental statement for each financial year in Form V to the concerned State Pollution Control Board, and on the company website. Form V is a separate return. It is not the half-yearly EC compliance report.

If your letter contains the company-website sentence, follow it, on the cadence the letter states. If you are not sure, read the general conditions. Do not assume every sector’s letter copies the 4 January 2019 text.

Green belt conditions are in the letter, not in one national percentage

Paragraph 10 does not prescribe green-belt area, width, species mix, density, or survival. Those numbers, when they exist, are in the EC letter, and sometimes in a sector Office Memorandum that the letter or the Ministry tells you to apply.

Inside the 4 January 2019 standard conditions the green-belt wording is not the same for every activity. Several say the green belt shall be developed in the area provided in the project details, with native tree species, covering the periphery. The authority named for species selection is not identical in every activity: some say the Forest Department, and some say CPCB guidelines. At least one activity in that memorandum states a percentage of plant area. The memorandum also allows the appraisal committee to change the standard text. Norms vary by sector and by the conditions in your EC letter. Use the green-belt sentence in that letter. Do not copy a percentage from another project’s filing or from a different sector’s standard condition.

A later Office Memorandum may revise criteria for some industrial projects. Apply it only when it covers your project and your letter. This guide does not restate area percentages.

For a mine, the same evidence habit is described in mine green belt plantation monitoring. For a refinery, cement, power, steel, estate, or construction site, see industrial green belt monitoring and industrial site greening.

Green belt evidence checklist for each reporting period

Build one packet per submission date (the 1 June report and the 1 December report). The packet is the supporting document for the green-belt condition. It is also the file you can place with the compliance status where the letter requires a website copy.

Keep for this period	What it shows
EC file number, condition number, and the exact green-belt sentence	The report answers the letter
Block or segment ID, GPS point or polygon, species, planting date, and the count or spacing the condition asks for	A sample can be walked back to the same place
Photos from this period, dated, tied to that block ID	The visit belongs to this report, not to an undated album
Survival resurvey for this period: alive, stressed, dead, or replaced, with replacements linked to the original ID	The belt is a living condition, not a planting-day total
A short note of blocks not resurveyed this period	A stated gap is clearer than a silent omission
The export you will attach for that condition	One file for the PARIVESH supporting document, and for the website copy if the letter requires one

Practical order before the date:

1. Freeze the register against the condition text. Drop any block that belongs to a different programme, such as a CSR event, onto its own tag.
2. Walk the blocks you will claim for this period. Record status and a photo when the status has changed.
3. Write the gap note before you write “complied.”
4. Export the packet (PDF or spreadsheet) with methodology notes: how the point was captured, how mortality and replacement are defined, and who resurveyed.
5. File that packet yourself on PARIVESH against the green-belt condition, and make any website update the letter requires. Keep the portal acknowledgement with the packet.

Monitored air, water, or noise results belong in the report when the letter or the portal asks for them. They are not a substitute for the plantation rows above.

How Aranyix fits the green-belt section

Aranyix is a plantation MRV record for the evidence in that checklist: geo-tagged registration, survival resurveys, photos tied to the visit, and a structured export. See plantation MRV software India. The same loop is what mining and industrial teams use for a belt that has to be sampled.

The export is the EC condition compliance plantation evidence for your six-monthly compliance report on environmental clearance. Your team attaches it. Aranyix does not log in to PARIVESH, does not submit the half-yearly report, and does not update the company website. It is not an approved or empanelled MoEFCC tool, and it does not decide whether a condition is complied.

Most teams start with a 90-day Plant → Track → Report pilot on one belt, dump, or campus block, then repeat the resurvey on the June and December cadence.

Important — honesty box Aranyix provides plantation MRV, audit-prep evidence, and modeled estimates only. We do not issue Verra, Gold Standard, or other registry credits. We do not issue Green Credits. Aranyix is not a certification body, not a registry, and not an approved or empanelled MoEFCC tool. We do not file six-monthly compliance reports on PARIVESH or on any other portal. EC filings remain with the project proponent. Modeled CO₂e stays labelled as an estimate and stays out of the compliance-status column.

Sources

• EIA Notification, 2006, S.O. 1533(E) dated 14 September 2006, and the Ministry’s compilation of that notification as amended up to July 2026, paragraphs 2 and 10 (the compilation states that the Gazette prevails if the compilation disagrees with it): PARIVESH copy. Principal notification: environmentclearance.nic.in.
• S.O. 5845(E) dated 26 November 2018, substituting “soft copy” for “hard and soft copies” in paragraph 10. English text of the Gazette notification as carried on India Code: S.O. 5845(E). The amendment is listed by the Ministry at EIA notifications.
• Office Memorandum F. No. IA3-22/1/2022-IA.III [E-172624] dated 14 June 2022, submission of the six-monthly compliance report through the PARIVESH module, including the annexed user manual: PARIVESH copy. Index entry: Office memoranda.
• Office Memorandum dated 4 January 2019, file reference 22-34/2018-IA.III, standardisation of environment clearance conditions, for the activities listed in that memorandum: PARIVESH copy.
• PARIVESH portal: parivesh.nic.in.