New Environment Impact Norm

• 10 Apr 2020

• Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has released draft EIA notification.
• It proposes an update to Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) notification of 2006.
• The current EIA specifies a “minimum of 30 days” for people to respond. The draft EIA notification gives a “minimum of 20 days” of notice period.
• It also requires that the public-hearing process be wrapped up in 40 days, as opposed to the existing norm of 45 days.