Coastal Zone Management and Regulations
Current
The MoEF has commissioned the Centre for Environment Education to conduct 10 public consultations across the country as a part of the process of reviewing the coastal regulation framework of the country after taking into account the experiences of fishing communities with the CRZ.
The MoEF allowed the controversial Draft CMZ Notification 2008 to lapse, in the light of stiff resistance from fishing communities, environmental & social action groups. At present, the Ministry has embarked on a public consultation process (download PDF of program schedule - 18.5 KB) to evolve a stronger coastal regulation framework for the country along the lines of the CRZ Notification, 1991.
The second in this series of Public Consultations was held in Chennai (read report) on August 19, 2009. Read more.
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