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Complete Environmental Organisation by Kinjal Choudhary

1. EIA is basically a tool used to assess the positive and negative environmental, economic and social impacts of a project.

2. This is used to predict the environmental impacts of a project in the pre-planning stage itself so that decisions can be taken to reduce the adverse impacts.

Objectives Of EIA

1. Evaluating economic, environmental and social impacts of development activities.
2. Providing information on the environmental consequences for decision making.
3. Identifying appropriate alternatives and mitigation measures for the negative outcomes of the Environmental Impacts.