The Ministry of Mines, Govt of India through Indian Bureau of Mines has developed a template for Scheme of Star Rating of Mines with the main objective of this system is to bring all mines to a minimum standard of Star Rating in the shortest possible time frame to adopt sustainable practices. A two layered system providing self-evaluation templates to be filled in by the mine operator followed by validation through Indian Bureau of Mines. Templates have been notified vide notification dated 23.05.2016.
A web enabled online system for evaluation of measures has been developed with the help of National Institute of Smart Governance (NISG), Hyderabad. It was launched by the Minister of State (Independent charge) for Mines, Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy, Shri Piyush Goyal on 18th August, 2016.