Environmental Impact Assessment for the Conservation of Environment and Sustainability.

Environmental impact assessment is the study that focuses on the effects of a proposed project,plan or a programme on the environment. EIA is a relatively new planning and decision-making tool. It ensures that the potential problems are foreseen and addressed at an early stage in project planning and design. Environmental assessment is taken up in this paper as a rapid assessment technique for determining the current status of the environment and identifying impact of critical activities on environmental parameters. The paper highlights methodology, evaluation of current stage, legal frame work, principles of environmental impact assessment, and case study,for predicting the environmental consequences of any project under consideration for development.