ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL PLANNING

Successful projects require environmentally sound designing and socially acceptable implementation – an area to which we continue to contribute regularly as with our other areas of endeavour. Like other areas of its expertise, LASA has been able to maintain itself in the forefront of consulting services by becoming a generator of new ideas, methods and techniques for social and environmental assessments. LASA has carried out detailed in environmental, ecological and socio-economic investigations and has undertaken impact assessment for major infrastructure development schemes. LASA can handle environmental and socio-economic issues to be addressed at various stages of projects from identifying strategic options to monitoring and evaluation on completion of projects. LASA fully has regularly met, even gone beyond, the regulatory requirements of the MoEF, GoI, and funding agencies guidelines like The World Bank, The Asian Development Bank, CIDA and IL&FS for Environmental and Social assessments in development projects.

LASA’s Environmental and Social Development Unit backs this confidence with a current strength of 28 permanent staff qualified and experienced in the field of Environmental and Social studies. Apart from these, LASA has a team of 24 Consultants having Environmental and Social experience ranging between 12 to 45 years.

LASA covers the following service areas:

• Environmental and Social Screening
• Environmental Impact Assessment, formulate policies and mitigation measures
• Ecological Assessment
• Environmental Management Plan
• Social Impact Assessment
• Resettlement Action Plan
• Independent Environmental Review
• Watershed Development
• Biodiversity & Forestry
• Environmental Training Programs
• Institutional strengthening
• Management Information System and Geographical Information System
• Natural Resources management
• Risk Assessment and Disaster management plan
• Monitoring & Evaluation of R&R activities
• Environmental Construction Supervision