Introduction

The Government of India has entrusted the work relating to ozone layer protection and implementation of the Montreal Protocol to the Ministry of Environment & Forests (MOEF). The MOEF has set up an Ozone Cell as a national unit to look after and to render necessary services to implement the Protocol and its ODS phaseout programme in India.

A detailed monitoring mechanism has been established by the Ozone Cell to ensure that the investments, which are made with financial assistance from the Multilateral Fund through implementing agencies, are being fruitfully utilized by the enterprises. The key aspects relating to monitoring mechanism are given below.

A Monitoring and Evaluation Sub Committee set up under the chairmanship of Special Secretary MOEF, including representatives from four implementing agencies, other line ministries and industry associations, regularly monitors the implementation of ODS phase out programme. The Sub-Committee is an advisory body to the Empowered Steering Committee on the Montreal Protocol, which is fully responsible for the implementation of the Protocol in India.

Site inspections of the projects under implementation are carried out. Normally, during the course of the year, implementing agencies send three to four missions to visit sites where project implementation work is gong on and where projects have been completed and handover protocols are to be signed.

Apart from monitoring, the Ozone Cell supports awareness programmes, training and capacity building exercise research studies on matters related to ODS phaseout in India. In association with WB, UNEP, UNIDO, UNDP and few other, Ozone Cell is implementing the following project : ---

CFC Production Sector Phaseout project in India

Halon Production Sector Phaseout project in India

Foam Sector Phaseout Project

Commercial Refrigeration Sector (Manufacturing)

National CFC Consumption Phase-out Plan (NCCoPP)

National CTC Phase out Plan

Aerosol Sector Phaseout Project

HCFC Phaseout Management Plan (HPMP)