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WHAT IS  E.I.A?

                 Environment Impact Assessment is an act to protect human lives wildlife ocean life and particularly the forest reserves. EIA is an important regulation prevents industrial and infrastructure  projects from being approved without following the required safe guards. EIA looks at the potential impact that an industry would have at the environment and the then the panel  of experts would either grand or deny the clearance.

HISTORY OF EIA  IN INDIA 

                      India issued the country's first EIA notification in 1994. Under the environment protection act of 1986. This was latter replaced by modified draft in 2006 in both norms the performence of important function of assessing and regulating the impacts of new project on the environment.

OBJECTIVE OF DRAFT 2020 

                     The objective of the draft 2020 is to be environment friendly but instead it is pro industry and anti-people this notification would cause a landmark shift in the way clearance are obtained in the country.

DRAWBACK OF NEW DRAFT EIA 2020

• One project operating   in violation of the EIA can now apply for clearance that is the  project that have come up illegally without environment clearance can actually be legalized.
• Earlier buildings of 20 000 square meter or above required an EIA clearance. After detailed scrutiny by the state level expert appraisal committee. Now it will be 150000 square meter almost the size of 11   eden garden ground
• The violation can be reported by government representatives or the project proponents not citizens
• The new draft exams a long list of projects from public consultation for example linear projects such as road and pipelines in border areas will not require any public hearing 
• All island water projects and expansion or widening of national highways will exempt from prior clearance this includes roads that cut through forest and deading of major rivers 

 WHAT CAN WE DO AS A PUBLIC?   

         This is important to note that by virtue of article 21 it is our constitutional right to be part of democratic decision making process the delhi high court has clarified that the last date to send in the objection to this draft notification is august 11 2020 so we want everyone to voice out the environment is for  everyone.