The study area covers the main city of Kanpur and its immediate vicinity. The environmental management plan includes environmental plan and environmental improvement strategies. Environmental planning includes a system of plans, programmes and measures for planning use/protection of natural resources and incorporation of environmental/ ecological objectives into the Master Plan. The study included identification of sources of pollution, environmental monitoring, field survey, mapping and environmental modelling to arrive at an environmental management plan for Kanpur urban area.

The mapping was carried out in a scale of 1:30,000 (as base maps were readily available in this scale). The maps prepared include land use, location of existing industries, environmental resource areas, housing quality, water supply, drainage, surface water quality, ground water quality, air quality, solid waste collection status, environmental hotspots and environmental (management) plan. Different maps included information as below:

S.No.	Name of the Map	Contents
1	Base map	Boundaries, major roads, railways, rivers
2	Land use map	Residential areas, open space/agricultural land, rivers/water bodies, institutional areas, water logged areas, burial grounds, industrial areas, parks, play grounds, village settlements, slums, commercial areas, forests, solid waste dump sites, religious places, residential cum commercial areas, etc.
3	Exisitng industries map	Closed industries, partially operational industries, cluster of tanneries, heavy engineering industries, small scale chemical industries, light engineering industries, workshops, large scale chemical industries, flour mills, industrial areas under construction, dairy etc.
4	Environmental resource areas	Plantations, monuments, play grounds, forest plantation, open lands, agricultural lands, parks, recreational areas, forests, prayer grounds etc.
5	Housing quality	Categorised into very good, good, average, poor and very poor zones based on services such as water supply, sewerage, drainage, roads etc.
6	Surface water quality map	Drainage, sewerage network, areas with no sewerage network, areas covered by sewerage network, water logged areas, open areas not needing sewerage, polluted stretches of rivers.
7	Ground water quality map	Contaminated areas, areas having traces of pesticides, areas with god quality
8	Solid waste	Areas with no specific problems, areas with occasional collection and disposal problems, areas with poor collection efficiency, dump sites
9	Air quality map	Highly polluted areas, polluted areas, medium polluted areas, good quality areas, very good quality areas
10	Environmental hot spots	Problem areas/zones compiled from various above maps
11	Environmental (management) plan	Proposed green belts, forests, open spaces etc. to be preserved, slums needing upgradation, change of land use from industry to greens, commercial areas needing rehabilitation, proposed industrial areas, proposed road network and railway

The environmental problems (hotspots) and the recommendations were grouped into:

1. The city structure or city development concept
2. Air quality management
3. Solid and liquid waste management

Brief abstracts from the study report (prepared in 1997-1998) and the subsequent implementation measures undertaken are given below.