The question asks about the necessary approvals for a developmental project, specifically mentioning the need for environmental clearance and approval under another act.
Forest Act Approval for Projects
Developmental projects often require multiple approvals to ensure compliance with various environmental and conservation laws.
Understanding Project Requirements
- Environmental Clearance is a general requirement for many projects impacting the environment.
- Additionally, projects that involve the diversion or use of forest land require specific approval under the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980. This act aims to ensure conservation of forests and prevents their indiscriminate diversion for non-forest purposes.
- The Water Act, 1974, and the Air Act, 1981, deal specifically with water and air pollution, respectively, and may require separate consents or permissions but are not the primary act for forest land diversion approval.
- The National Environmental Tribunal Act, 1995, deals with environmental disputes and compensation, not project approval for land use.
Therefore, a developmental project needing environmental clearance and potentially impacting forest areas must also secure approval under the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980.
Important Questions from Environmental Impact Assessment
Scoping step of EIA
(i) Is a systematic exercise that establishes the boundaries of EIA
(ii) Clearly indicates what is relevant and what is not relevant within EIA
(iii) Serves as a work plan for the entire EIA process.
Choose the correct answer from the code given below :
What is a contingency plan in EIA? Select the best answer.
Which EIA tool best identifies action-effect-impact relations?
- Assertion (A) : Leopold matrix can be expanded or contracted.
Reason (R) : Leopold matrix is a checklist designed to show possible interactions between developmental activities and set of environmental characteristics.
In the context of the two statements, which one of the following is correct ? - In Battele environment evaluation system the total parameter importance units is lowest for
