The results of the Pro Public continuous efforts in the environmental protection sectors, there are large number of interventions has been done in term of policies, acts and regulations. The formation of Environmental Protection Act 1997, Environment Protection Regulation 1997, Nepal Vehicle Mass Emission Standards, Several Industrial Effluent Standards, and National Ambient Air Quality Standard etc. are some examples of it.
In order to effectively implement such Environmental Quality Standards, compliance monitoring is needed. With this objective, Pro Public, on its own initiatives, started the compliance monitoring of the Industrial Effluent Standards in Nepal. So far Pro Public has monitored 23 different industries belonging to Pulp and Paper, Tanning, Soap and Chemicals, Vegetable Ghee and Oils, Textile industries in several parts of Nepal.  The Ministry of Population and Environment has set up the industrial effluent standard for these groups of industry. From our monitoring programs, it can be concluded that, no industries monitored so far are complying with the first generation industrial effluent standards and become a major source of river, soil, and land pollution in the present standard. 2001 to 2003.