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ii. Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification, 2006
The Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification, 2006, is the governing legal instrument to grant green clearance for the establishment or expansion of an industry on the basis of the potential environmental impact of the project. The notification in recent times has been revised several times since its introduction in 1994.Â
Background:
- While the 2006 notification is flexible and can adjust to the changing times, it has been exploited by governments, who have made efforts to dilute its provisions and norms to make it easier to establish and expand industries that generate pollution.Â
- This has been achieved through the introduction of office memorandums, which are changes to the notification that do not require public consultation.
- In the past five years, 110 such changes have been introduced, some of which have been challenged in the National Green Tribunal.
- The year 2022-23 saw the highest number of changes introduced in the 2006 notification in the last five years.