Construction industry is an integral part of infrastructure sectors, like irrigation, roads, transportation, telecommunications and energy, which lead to economic growth & development of the country. GAP Analysis is an important method for identification organizational & operational policy, practices & their effectiveness against EHSMS programme. It is meant to identify the basic direction as well as specific area of action where environment of the site & safety performance has to be improved. It is also tool for ensuring, that the site's operation & maintenance procedure match the intent &...

EIA is gaining popularity day by day since its inception in India two decades back. One side it is having so many controversial projects which became the reasons to highlight the environmental impact assessment and on the other side involvement of top notch politicians to go ahead with getting EIA clearance without proper scrutiny by experts. Among these projects, TAJ Corridor & Aadarsh Housing Society are world known projects. But as environmentalists I think these two cases have given the fame and publicity to EIA concept in India which was required at the time of introduction of EIA in...