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ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT POLICY AND LEGAL FRAME WORK OF INDIA
Dr. Prem Kumar Dara* and Dr. Ketema Tilahun Gelaye
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Environmental impact assessment (EIA) has evolved and become part of major project requirements in many countries, since its introduction in the United States in 1970. According to the principle 17 of Rio Declaration (1992), the concept of EIA has been adopted as an environmental management tool to minimize the potential adverse impacts on the ecology often caused by of any socio-economic developmental project. Under the Environmental (Protection) Act 1986, on 27th January 1994, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MEF), Government of India, circulated an EIA notification which made Environmental Clearance (EC) obligatory both for expansion or modernization of every activity and for setting up new projects programmed in Schedule 1 of the notification4. Ever since there have been 12 amendments made in the EIA notification of 1994.
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