Unit 5

Which among the following is not an Act of Environmental Protection?

• Biomedical Waste (Management and handling) Rules, 1998

• Recycled Plastics, Plastics Manufacture and Usage Rules, 1999

• Construction and Demolition Waste Management Rules, 2016

• Conservation of plastic, waste and increasing act 2016.

Administrative framework for environmental protection includes:

• Central pollution control Board

• State pollution control Board

• Ministry of Environment and Forest

• All of the above

Central pollution control Board is formed to_______

• prevent the environmental pollution

• promote the environmental pollution

• practice the environmental pollution

• All of above

Maharashtra

Pollution Control Board is established on

• 7 September 1980

• 7 September 1990

• 7 September 1970

• 7 September 1960

The responsibilities of pollution control board:

• create public awareness

• Inspect sewage

• inspect air control system

• All of above

NGO stands for_____

• Non Governance Organization

• Non Government Optimization

• Non Government Organization

• Non Government Organiser

Supposed to be working not for ‘profit’ but for a ‘cause(s)’ is

• NGO

• CGO

• GOO

• MGO

Narmada Bachao Andalon is initiated by

• Nana Patekar

• Amir Khan

• Medha Patkar

• Sardar Patel

The study to predict the effect of a proposed activity/project on the environment is known as_____

• Sustainable development

• Environmental impact assessment

• Environmental improvement

• Environmental cultivation

EIA can be seen as a ___________

• Measuring tool

• Product

• Multiplying tool

• None of the above