What is on SIDBI's environmental and social due diligence checklist for a green loan?
Under SIDBI's GCF-backed FMAP programme the promoter fills in and signs a 14-point checklist with the loan application. It asks for environmental clearance and valid pollution control consents, any non-compliance notices, child or forced labour, worker safety, ESI and EPF, facilities for women, land acquisition, and distance from eco-sensitive areas.
Environmental questions
- Environmental clearance from MoEFCC or the state impact assessment authority, if your activity needs one. Attach a copy, or the application if it is pending.
- Valid Consent to Establish and Consent to Operate from the state pollution control board. Attach copies or the application and fee receipt.
- Any notice for regulatory non-compliance, violation of consent conditions, litigation or court settlement, with reasons and whether it is resolved.
- Whether the pollution control measures your consent requires are installed, listing any deviations.
Social questions
- Whether the unit employs child or forced labour.
- Occupational health and safety: gloves, helmets and masks, especially during welding, and working fire extinguishers with the gauge in the green zone.
- Compliance with labour welfare requirements such as ESI and EPF.
- Canteen, rest room and toilets for workers, and separate facilities if women are employed.
Location questions
Whether the unit is in a notified industrial area, cluster or SEZ. If not, further questions follow: compulsory land acquisition or displacement, location in areas of tribal or indigenous settlement, damage to critical cultural heritage, and whether the site is close to an eco-sensitive zone or within 10 km of a national park, wildlife sanctuary or reserved forest.
Who checks it
The checklist is signed by the promoter, then checked and signed by the lending officer of SIDBI or the participating lender, and approved by SIDBI's Green Climate Finance Vertical. A false answer found at a site visit is a much bigger problem than an honest gap with a plan to close it.
What Senseible does here
Senseible does not handle consents or labour records. It covers the energy and emissions part of a green loan file, a dated baseline built from your bills.
Sources: SIDBI, ESMS for FMAP, Annexure 4: Environmental and Social Due Diligence Checklist
Last reviewed 2026-10-23.