The fault made by the National Environment Appellate Authority in regard to the environment ministry for the way in which environmental consent was given to Vedanta's Niyamgiri mining plan. In the order passed out by NEAA member J C Kala, formally locking the Niyamgiri episode of Vedanta's functions sketched awareness to the verity that the environment impact assessment report was on no account obtainable for public remark.

The impact evaluation report is a vital document on the foundation of which environmental permission is provided. The report gives a direction to the type of counteractive action that project developers might need to take on.

The order states that it is translucent that the Vimta Lab EIA of 2005, on the foundation of which the environmental consent was settled and was never in the public sphere for the public to articulate their opinions or trepidation during the two public trials held in Raigada and Kalahandi during the year 2003, guiding to non conformity of ministry's notification.

It discovers that the impact assessment report arranged by Vimta Lab be deficient in analysis in order of human miseries that the project is likely to impose.