Environmental Impact Assessment or EIA as it is popularly known is primarily a decision making and management tool. It is required to assess the impacts (both positive and negative) that a project may bring on the environmental systems. In yet simpler terms, any activity (such as setting up and industry or constructing a mall) alters the environment where it is developed. Hence, in order to assess the possible alterations that the project may bring to its environment and surroundings an Environmental Impact Assessment is undertaken. Based on the findings of an EIA preventive measures are suggested and implemented to negate the adverse impacts that the project may entail. Although any activity brings a change in the environment, not all projects warrant an EIA study to be undertaken. In India, Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEF&CC), issued a notification on 14 September 2006, whereby it stated that ‘the required construction of new projects or a