UPSC Themes

UPSC CSE Mains 2014 · GS3

Environmental Impact Assessment studies are increasingly undertaken before a project is cleared by the Government. Discuss the environmental impacts of coal-fired thermal plants located at coal pitheads.

Theme

T158 Environmental Impact Assessment & project displacement

What UPSC asks in this theme

Repeated: draft EIA 2020 vs 2006, rehabilitation of displaced people, coal plants at pitheads, and NGOs influencing EIA.

What to cover

Writing the answer

These notes are for the whole theme, built from all 4 of its PYQs. UPSC does not publish model answers.

On the map

Map module 2: Drainage & water bodies

More PYQs from this theme

  1. GS3202410 marks

    What role do environmental NGOs and activists play in influencing Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) outcomes for major projects in India? Cite four examples with all important details.

  2. GS32020

    How does the draft Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification, 2020 differ from the existing EIA Notification, 2006?

  3. GS32016

    Rehabilitation of human settlements is one of the important environmental impacts which always attracts controversy while planning major projects. Discuss the measures suggested for mitigation of this impact while proposing major developmental projects.

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