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The Planning Commission plans to link funding allocations to states to their environmental management, and is putting in place an index to gauge performance. The Planning Commission is in the process of developing an environmental performance index (EPI) to incentivise states for environmental performance through budgetary allocations. The plan panel’s index takes its cue from Yale University’s EPI, which seeks to aid policy evaluation on the basis of an index constructed with measures relevant to the objectives of protecting ecosystems and natural resources and reducing environmental stress to human health such as air quality, water resources, biodiversity and climate change.