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which is valid up till
What is an Environment Impact Assessment? now. Through the
An EIA makes a scientific estimate of the likely years, despite all the
impacts of a project, such as a mine, irrigation dam, amendments, the state
industrial unit or waste treatment plant. There is also of the environment in
a provision for public consultation in the rules, India has not
including a public hearing at which the local improved, as can be
community and interested persons can give opinions seen from this Yale
and raise objections, based on the draft EIA report study. In addition, the

prepared by experts for the project.
complexities
While a single power it was a lack of associated with
failure leads to unrest, sustainable solutions conducting an EIA
And a day without the for growth, degrading study have been
AC seems like a test, soil, air and water amplified over the
Have you ever quality or biodiversity years for project
envisioned the plight of loss. The Indian proponents as well as
the forest? Government issued the those opposing these
The very places where first Environment projects. In this
animals can breed, Impact Assessment context, the Draft
The same trees that (EIA) notification in Notification intends to
provide air to breathe, the year 1994 under make the EIA process
Have all vanished, more transparent and
courtesy the human Environment expedient for the
greed! stakeholders. However,
Yet, there are little Impact several environmental
things we can still do, Assessment activists have opposed
To stop the polar ice this draft on the
caps from bidding us 2020 grounds that it will
adieu! render EIA as a mere
To protect every TEAM ARTICLE formality.
creature from Mother
Nature’s fury, The Earth is something we all What are the objectives
have in common and nature is
But do you still care a miracle we depend upon. We of the EIA?
with all your luxury? will not have a society if we • Identify &
destroy the environment. We evaluate
Despite its extensive shouldn't have to be environmental,
legal framework scrambling to protect the social and
governing environment, we must create a economic impacts
environmental issues, world where the environment of projects
India ranked 168th out doesn't need protecting in the • Predicts
first place.
of 180 countries in the environmental
Environment the Environment consequences of

Performance Index of (Protection) Act. This projects
2020. It scored low on notification was • Ensure
all indicators of replaced by an environmentally
performance, whether amended draft in 2006, sound &