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Environmental Clearance - The Process

The environmental clearance process is required for 39 types of projects and covers aspects like screening, scoping and evaluation of the upcoming project. The main purpose is to assess impact of the planned project on the environment and people and to try to abate/minimise the same.

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EIA Legislation

Environmental Impact Assessment Notification, 2006
The Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) notified the new EIA Notification in September 2006 after putting up the draft notification for public comment for a year.
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Understanding EIA

Environment Impact Assessment or EIA can be defined as the study to predict the effect of a proposed activity/project on the environment. A decision making tool, EIA compares various alternatives for a project and seeks to identify the one which represents the best combination of economic and environmental costs and benefits.

  • What is EIA?
  • Evolution of EIA
  • History of EIA in India
  • The EIA process
  • Forms of impact assessment
  • Comparative review of EIA procedures and practices
     

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Training Archive

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Training Programme

 Date: 1 - 5 Sep, 2009
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Training Programme

 Venue: Centre for Science and Environment, 41, Tughlakabad Institutional Area, New Delhi - 62
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Training Programme

 Venue: Centre for Science and Environment, 41, Tughlakabad Institutional Area, New Delhi - 62

Work Overview

Our country is in the throes of rapid industrialisation, which is often accompanied with massive environmental and social burdens, principally borne by communities living in the vicinity of project sites. Monitoring tools like Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), therefore, assume great significance in ensuring sound economic development without compromising on environmental and social costs.

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Goa mining proposals clearance put on hold
Responding to complaints from within and outside the State government about how illegal mining operations are stripping Goa, the Union government has put on hold all environmental clearances for mining proposals in the State. read more

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Rubber-stamp Authority

Chhattisgarh announced a proposed investment of more than Rs 1,77,000 crore in the state. Until October 2008, it had signed over a hundred MOUs with companies like Jindals, Tata Steel and Essar. After a couple of months of this announcement, a bureaucrat heading the state environment regulatory body resigned.