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Detailed explanation-1: -Detailed Solution. The correct answer is Haldia. Haldia has become the ‘first green port’ in the country after a bio-diesel dispensing unit was inaugurated in it. Haldia Port Complex, part of Kolkata Port Trust, will start using biodiesel to run its railway engines, trucks and other vehicles.

Detailed explanation-2: -Kandla Special Economic Zone (KASEZ) is the First Green SEZ of India. KASEZ is also the First Green SEZ to achieve the IGBC Green Cities Platinum Rating for Existing Cities.

Detailed explanation-3: -The objective of IGBC Green SEZ is to facilitate the creation of energy efficient, water efficient, healthy, comfortable and environmentally friendly SEZ. The rating system evaluates certain credit points using a prescriptive approach and other credits on a performance based approach.

Detailed explanation-4: -Kandla Special Economic Zone (KASEZ), the country’s oldest export zone, has been designated as India’s “first green industrial city” by the IGBC Green Cities Rating for existing areas in the industrial cities category.

Detailed explanation-5: -Gujarat’s Kandla Special Economic Zone (KASEZ) becomes ‘first green industrial city’ in India. In KASEZ, 1000-odd acres has 3.5 lakh trees.