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 Environment protection act reduced to a travesty of their mandate [1]

Since 1980 different pieces of legislations have been enacted for environmental conservation. These include the Forest (Conservation) Act (fca), 1980, the Environmental Protection Act (epa), 1986 and the Biological Diversity Act (bda), 2002. These have the potential to strengthen the conservation agenda. But they are at best being used to

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Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) [3], Forests [4], Land Resources [5], Mining [6], Dams [7], Conflicts [8], Biodiversity [9], Industry [10], Legislation [11], Supreme Court [12], Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF) [13], India [14]

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