ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION

OVERVIEW

THEORY

Overview
Environmental laws play an important role in providing a
framework for regulating the use of environment and its
management.
In India, several acts were passed from 1972 to 1986 and
various amendments thereafter

To protect the environment

Regulate resource use
Protect biodiversity
Pollution control
Conserve forests

India is the first nation in the world to have made protection and
conservation in its constitution in 1976.
The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) is the nodal
agency in the administrative structure of the central government
for planning, promotion, coordination and overseeing the
implementation of Indias environmental and forest policies and
programmes.
Along with MoEF, central and state pollution control boards
have been constituted to provide technical support to MoEF in
its functioning.