The environment master plan (EMP), being prepared by the government to secure a $ 2 million development policy loan from the World Bank, will address issues pertaining to 18 major sectors, virtually covering the whole gamut of development activities, to lay down the road map for sustainable growth of the ecologically fragile hill state. The State Environment Department has identified the environmentally sensitive sectors on the basis of the thrust areas of the economic growth. Apart from hydroelectric generation, industries, tourism, agriculture and horticulture, a host of other sectors and activities like roads, highways, irrigation, public health, art, culture, architecture, transport, health and rural and urban planning have been included. The thrust of the plan will be on sustainable management of the natural resources and heritage with focus on forests, wildlife, wetlands, livestock, mining, fisheries, waste disposal and architecture and cultural heritage. As the World Bank is insisting on an appropriate regulatory mechanism for effective monitoring, the plan will also provide an operational mechanism for issue identification and implementation of management plans, accountability and enforcement procedures. After making an inventory of the existing recourses of the listed sectors, a spatial vulnerability assessment will be carried out to identify the critical areas to devise strategies to mitigate the environmental fallout. It will also lay down sectoral guidelines to mainstream the environmental parameters and development criteria for optimisation of the resources.