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UPSC CSE Mains 2024 · GS3 · 10 marks · 150 words

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.

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

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This question also needs

T80 Environment, courts & civil society: Art 21, environmental PILs, green NGOs & pressure groups

On the map

Map module 2: Drainage & water bodies

More PYQs from this theme

  1. GS32020

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

  2. 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.

  3. GS32014

    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.

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