Rapid Environmental Impact Assessment Studies of Mining Activities in Chittorgarh District, Rajasthan.

ABSTRACT

Mining exerts pressure on environment at many stages i.e. exploration, extraction, processing, and post closer operations. Hence mining operations necessarily involves deforestation, habitat destruction and biodiversity erosion, change of landscape, displacement of human settlement, flora and fauna of the area, surface drainage, and change in air, water and soil quality. While for the purpose of development and economic upliftment of people, there is a need for establishment of industrial project, but these have to be environmentally friendly. Therefore it is essential to assess the impacts of mining on different environmental parameters, before starting the mining operations, so that abatement measures could be planned in advance for eco-friendly mining in the area. Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is a systematic process that examines the environmental consequences of development action like mining, transport, river valley. EIA systematically examines both beneficial and adverse consequences of the proposed project and ensures that these impacts are taken into account during the project design.