QUESTIONNAIRE FOR INDUSTRIES   You can remain anonymous, and provide us feedback of your experiences with State Pollution Control Boards (SPCBs). This will help you give inputs without any apprehensions.   However, we will appreciate if you could tick the type and scale of your operation. Most of the questions are of the objective type. But we have provided space after some of the questions so that you can add your comments. We request you to fill the questionnaire only once.         1  Please specify the state you belong to    2  Please specify the size of your industry      Select One Large-Scale Medium-Scale Small-Scale   3  Please specify the business sector     4  How do you rate the status of overall environmental pollution in your state? (0- very poor; 10 - very good)       Select One 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10   5  How do you rate the overall environmental regulations and regulatory standards in the country? (0-extremely lax, 5-adequate, 10-extremely tough to meet)       Select One 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10   6  How frequently do SPCB officials inspect your unit?   Select one Weekly Monthly Quarterly Half yearly Annually More than annually   7  How frequently is the wastewater sample collected by SPCB?     Select one Weekly Monthly Quarterly Half yearly Annually More than annually   8  How often are the stacks monitored?   Select one Weekly Monthly Quarterly Half yearly Annually More than annually   9  Does the SPCB provide you the results of the tests conducted on the samples?       Yes        No   10  Are there any disparities in the results of the tests conducted by SPCB and the industry?       Always        Quite often        Sometime        Never   11  Has the SPCB inspected your unit on the basis of complaint(s) filed by the local community/civil society?       Yes        No   12  How many show cause notices were issued against your unit during 2006-07?        * Please enter in numerals only   13  Has your industry ever been penalized for non-compliance?  Yes        No   14  How do you rate your SPCB on technical competency on a scale between 0 to 10 (0- very poor; 10 - very good).       Select One 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10   15  How adequate is the staffing in the SPCB?  (0 - highly inadequate manpower 10- adequate man power)       Select One 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10   16  According to you, which is the major activity that your SPCB is engaged in throughout the year?       Select one Administrative* Monitoring Research Others    *  Including processing consents   17  How adequate are the technical and scientific facilities with the SPCBs (labs and monitoring equipment)? (0 - Poor Facility; 10 - good facility)       Select One 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10   18  How often does the SPCB give you technical assistance?         19  How useful are the research activities taken up by the SPCB's laboratories for your unit?         20  How do you rate your SPCB on corruption on a scale of 0 to 10? (0-very corrupt, 10-No corruption)       Select One 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10   21  Have you ever filed any complaint against SPCB officials for corruption? Yes        No      If yes, what happened to the complaint?         22  Rate the performance of your SPCB in controlling pollution on a scale between 0 to 10  (0- very poor; 10 - very good).       Select One 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10   23  What are the key weaknesses and strengths of the current regulations and regulatory standard and what needs to be done to improve it?   a  Weaknesses         b  Strengths         c  What needs to be done to improve it         24  What are the key weaknesses and strengths of the current enforcement system and what needs to be done to improve it?   a  Weaknesses         b  Strengths         c  What needs to be done to improve it         25  What needs to be done to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of SPCBs?