EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment)

EIA is the legal framework, accepted worldwide as part of environmental protection acts which regulate the activities which access, utilize and pollute the natural resources. As per the norms of EIA, every developmental project has been required to go through the EIA process for obtaining prior environmental clearance or permit ever since. India notified its first EIA norms in 1994. Recently Indian government notified a modification in the EIA norms of 2006