Environmental protection act and Forest act

Environmental protection act and Forest act

The lecture was delivered by Mrs. Kanimozhi, who is a Guest faculty in School of Excellence in Law, Chennai. The topic was Environmental Protection Act and Forest Protection Act. The lecturer initially started explaining about the need for environmental protection and gave introduction about Environmental Protection Act, 1986. She also explained about different sections of the Act which deals with powers of central and state government to protect the environment, liability of individual or companies degrading the environment and the offences for the same. She also referred to the governing body under the Act. Later the lecturer also provided a gist of Forest Act. She explained the concept of reserved forest and steps taken to preserve them. The lecturer also referred to various landmark cases relating to environmental protection and preserving forest. On a whole the lecture was very interesting as it acknowledged with the students some effective and important information about the topic.