India, March 21 -- The National Productivity Council (NPC) has been assigned the responsibility for managing environmental audit and capacity building to promote sustainable industrial growth and strengthen environmental governance, strengthening India's integration into global value chains, the commerce and industry ministry said.

"NPC has signed an agreement with the ministry of environment, forest and climate change (MoEF&CC) to act as the Environment Audit Designated Agency (EADA)," a spokesperson of the ministry said on Saturday. NPC is an autonomous organisation under the department for promotion of industry and internal trade (DPIIT). Union commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal is the president of NPC.

The development is si...