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Green Steel Certificates get breathing room

The Ministry of Steel issues a corrigendum to its Green Steel Classification notification, allowing provisional extension of Green Steel Certificate validity.

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6 April 2026

The Ministry of Steel issued a corrigendum to its Green Steel Classification notification, allowing provisional extension of Green Steel Certificate validity. It seems like a small change with a larger signal that India's green-labelling regimes for industrial products are now live instruments being administered and adjusted - and claims built on them will attract the same substantiation scrutiny as any environmental claim.

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