New Delhi, June 4 -- India's Rs.23,510-crore plywood industry faces environmental scrutiny, with the National Green Tribunal (NGT) directing the ministry of environment, forest and climate change to draft new environmental guidelines for plywood manufacturers.

This follows complaints about pollution from plywood units in Haryana's Yamuna Nagar district. The tribunal flagged the lack of national norms on factory location, pollution control equipment, and handling of carcinogenic chemicals, among other things.

Mint explains the NGT ruling and its fallout.

On 27 May the NGT's principal bench, led by chairperson Justice Prakash Shrivastava, directed the environment ministry to draft comprehensive guidelines for the plywood industry. Despit...