India, Dec. 9 -- The Union environment ministry is considering the adoption of an environmental damage cost assessment (EDCA) methodology to assess cost liability for various environmental violations, Kirti Vardhan Singh, minister of state for environment has told the Lok Sabha.

In response to queries by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member of Parliament (MP) Manoj Tiwari on 1. whether the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB)'s draft Report on Environmental Damage Cost Assessment (EDCA) proposes a uniform methodology to assess compensatory damages; 2. whether such a report includes pollution incidents in Delhi e.g. chronic waste to energy/ landfill impacts and episodic high pollution events 3. whether the Government has adopted or plans...