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The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), Government of India (GoI), through issuance of EIA notification S.O. 1533 dated 14.09.2006, has restructured the Environmental Clearance procedure in suppression of the earlier environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification of January 1994 and its subsequent amendments. Through this notification forty (40) activities (predominantly industrial in nature), have been scheduled for mandatory Environmental Clearance. Part of these activities require Environmental Clearance from Central Level Impact Assessment Authority at MoEF, New Delhi whereas others require Environmental Clearance from state level Environmental Clearance authority i.e. State Environment Impact Assessment Authority. Environmental Clearance is now granted by MoEF, New Delhi at central level and also by the state environment clearance authority at state level. In West Bengal, SEIAA and SEAC are comprised of experts from the field of Industrial Engineering, Environmental Management, Public Health Engineering, Town and Country Planning, Economics and other related fields.