Question

State any two legal bases of eia(environmental impact assessment)?

Answer 1

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a procedure of assessing the imaginable natural effects of a proposed undertaking or improvement, considering between related financial, social and human-wellbeing impacts, both valuable and unfriendly.

UNEP characterizes Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) as an apparatus used to distinguish the ecological, social and financial effects of a venture before basic leadership. It expects to foresee ecological effects at a beginning time in undertaking arranging and configuration, discover available resources to diminish unfavorable effects, shape activities to suit the neighborhood condition and present the forecasts and choices to leaders. By utilizing EIA both natural and financial advantages can be accomplished, for example, diminished expense and time of venture execution and configuration, stayed away from treatment/tidy up expenses and effects of laws and controls.

Answer 2

Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is the evaluation of the environmental consequences (both positive and negative) of proposed projects. It is a tool to aid in the decision whether or not to pursue the project.  

In India, its two legal bases are: (1) EIA notification of 1994, which made the Environmental Clearance (EC) mandatory for any activity or new projects; (2) EIA notification of 2006, which mandates mining, power plants, infrastructure, and industries to get environment clearance