MoEFCC: Draft Environment Impact Assessment Notification,2020- Issues of Scoping
28062020 Rajesh Deoliya [rajeshdeoliya@gmail.com] In formulating the draft Environment Impact Assessment Notification (EIA),2020,the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Government of India states that the directions of high courts and National Green Tribunal (NGT) has helped in realizing necessary environmental safeguards by assessing environment impacts due to the proposed projects, that require Prior Environment Clearance at the planning stage itself, the Central Government seeks to make the process more transparent and expedient through implementation of online system, further delegations, rationalization, standardization of the process, etc.; However, para by para perusal of the draft EIA notification,2020 illustrates that MoEFCC is easing out process of grant of environmental clearance and becoming industry friendly, but in doing so it is also compromising the environmental concerns. There are many such areas in this draft notification where