Environmental Impact Assessment is a tool that helps disclose the environmental impacts of a development project through a systematically prepared EIA Report. The Environment Ministry uses the findings of the report to decide whether a project should be granted Environmental Clearance or not. The 2019-20 Annual Report of the Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change indicates that 322 projects were granted EC between April and December 2019. The report is silent on the number of projects that were not granted EC in this period.