Pre-Study: What to Study
10 Subtopics · 66 ConceptsConstitutional Provisions on the Environment (Articles 21, 48A and 51A(g))
Importance 4/5 What to StudyLegislative Competence: Articles 246, 252 and 253 and Entries 17A and 17B
Importance 5/5 What to StudyLaws Giving Effect to International Agreements
Importance 4/5 What to StudyState Amendments and State Adoption of Central Environmental Laws
Importance 3/5 What to StudyEvolution of the Environment Ministry
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Chronology of the Principal Acts
Colonial Forest Laws and Forest Policies
Importance 2/5 What to StudyLaws from Stockholm to the Environment (Protection) Act, 1972–1986
Importance 5/5 What to StudyLaws Enacted After the Bhopal Gas Tragedy
Importance 4/5 What to StudyEnvironmental Laws Enacted from 2001 Onward
Importance 4/5 What to StudyAmendments and Renamings
Amendments to the Water, Air and Water Cess Acts
Importance 4/5 What to StudyAmendments to the Wild Life (Protection) Act
Importance 5/5 What to StudyAmendments to the Forest Laws
Importance 4/5 What to StudyBiological Diversity and Energy Conservation Amendments of 2022–2023
Importance 3/5 What to StudyRenamed Laws and Replaced Bodies
Importance 3/5 What to StudyPending Bills, Drafts and Expired Proposals
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Pollution Control and EPA Bodies
CPCB, SPCBs and Pollution Control Committees
Importance 5/5 What to StudyAuthorities Constituted Under Section 3(3) of the EPA
Importance 4/5 What to StudyCommission for Air Quality Management and Its Predecessor
Importance 3/5 What to StudyCommittees Under the 1989 Rules on Genetically Engineered Organisms
Importance 5/5 What to StudyWildlife and Biodiversity Bodies
Bodies Constituted Under the Wild Life (Protection) Act
Importance 5/5 What to StudyNational Biodiversity Authority, State Biodiversity Boards and Biodiversity Management Committees
Importance 4/5 What to StudyForest Bodies
Forest Advisory Committee and Approval Bodies Under the Van Adhiniyam
Importance 3/5 What to StudyCAMPA and the Compensatory Afforestation Funds
Importance 4/5 What to StudyAuthorities Under the Forest Rights Act
Importance 3/5 What to StudyComparing Bodies
Chairpersons and Headquarters of Environmental Bodies
Importance 4/5 What to StudyStatutory and Non-Statutory Bodies Compared
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Rules Under the Environment (Protection) Act
Clearance and Zoning Notifications Under the EPA
Importance 5/5 What to StudyWaste and Hazardous Substance Rules Under the EPA
Importance 4/5 What to StudyStandards, Labels and Market-Based Rules Under the EPA
Importance 3/5 What to StudyRules Under Other Acts
Rules Under the Wild Life (Protection) Act
Importance 2/5 What to StudyRules and Guidelines Under the Forest Laws
Importance 3/5 What to StudyRules Under the Biological Diversity, Pollution and Energy Conservation Acts
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Environment, Pollutant and Hazardous Substance Under the EPA, Water and Air Acts
Importance 3/5 What to StudyMeaning of Forest and Forest Land Across Laws
Importance 5/5 What to StudyWildlife Terms: Wild Animal, Protected Area, Vermin and Invasive Alien Species
Importance 3/5 What to StudyBiological Resources, Codified Traditional Knowledge and Biopiracy
Importance 3/5 What to StudyForest Dwellers, Minor Forest Produce and Community Forest Resource Under the FRA
Importance 3/5 What to Study
Decriminalisation and Penalties
Decriminalisation Under the Jan Vishwas Act, 2023
Importance 5/5 What to StudyDecriminalisation of the Water Act in 2024
Importance 4/5 What to StudyOffences That Still Carry Imprisonment
Importance 4/5 What to StudyEnforcement Procedure
Adjudicating Officers and the Inquiry Rules of 2024
Importance 3/5 What to StudyEnvironment Protection Fund
Importance 3/5 What to StudyOffences by Companies and Government Departments
Importance 2/5 What to StudyCognisance, Citizen Suits and the Bar of Civil Courts
Importance 3/5 What to Study
Acts in Schedule I and Laws Outside the NGT
Importance 5/5 What to StudyOriginal and Appellate Jurisdiction of the NGT
Importance 4/5 What to StudyAppeals from the NGT and Earlier Environmental Tribunals
Importance 3/5 What to StudyComposition and Tenure of NGT Members
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Polluter Pays and Precautionary Principles
Importance 4/5 What to StudyPublic Trust Doctrine and Intergenerational Equity
Importance 3/5 What to StudyStrict, Absolute and No-Fault Liability
Importance 5/5 What to StudyPrinciples Written Into Statutes
Importance 3/5 What to Study
Forest and Wildlife Pairs
Forest (Conservation) Act and Forest Rights Act Compared
Importance 5/5 What to StudyIndian Forest Act and Forest (Conservation) Act Compared
Importance 4/5 What to StudyCritical Wildlife Habitat and Critical Tiger Habitat Compared
Importance 4/5 What to StudyAreas Notified Under Different Laws
Importance 5/5 What to StudyWild Life (Protection) Act Schedules and CITES Appendices Compared
Importance 5/5 What to StudyPollution, Biodiversity and Market Pairs
Water Act and Air Act Compared
Importance 5/5 What to StudyEPA Rules and Standalone Acts Compared
Importance 5/5 What to StudyBiological Diversity Act and the Nagoya Protocol Compared
Importance 4/5 What to StudyGreen Credits, Carbon Credits and Energy Saving Certificates Compared
Importance 4/5 What to Study
Nodal Ministries for Environment-Related Laws
Importance 4/5 What to StudyInsecticides Act, 1968 and the Draft Pesticides Management Bill
Importance 3/5 What to StudyEnergy Conservation Act, 2001 and the Bureau of Energy Efficiency
Importance 3/5 What to StudyOther Sectoral Laws with Environmental Provisions
Importance 3/5 What to StudyPolicies and Plans That Are Not Laws
Importance 3/5 What to Study