1.1 Introduction
Lavasa is a private, planned city being built near Pune, Maharashtra, India. It is stylistically based on the Italian town Portofino. A 25,000 acres (100 km2) or 8,000 acres (32 km2) project being developed by Hindustan Construction Company [1], this as-yet-incomplete city has been controversial for multiple reasons including procurement of land, harm to the environment, and loans acquired through political corruption. In our term paper we will be mainly focusing on the violation of Environmental laws i.e. Environment Protection Act,1986, Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), 1994 including haphazard cutting of hills. Incidentally, environment clearance was issued for development of a 2,000- hectare township hill station.…