Prepare zone management plans soon, NGT tells coastal States, Union Territories
- January 13, 2024
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Prepare zone management plans soon, NGT tells coastal States, Union Territories
Subject : Environment
Section: Environmental laws
Context:
- The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has asked the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change to ensure that coastal States and Union Territories prepare a Coastal Zone Management Plan (CZMP) or the Island Coastal Regulation Zone Plan (ICRZP) as per the Coastal Regulation Zone notification, 2019, within a timebound period.
- Only three States – Odisha, Karnataka and Maharashtra – have formulated the CZMP/ ICRZP as per the notification. The only Great Nicobar and Little Andaman Islands have approved the ICRZP.
About Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ)
- Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) under the Environment Protection Act, 1986, issued the Coastal Regulation Zone notification for regulation of activities in the coastal area.
- As per the notification, the coastal land up to 500m from the High Tide Line (HTL) and a stage of 100m along banks of creeks, estuaries, backwater and rivers subject to tidal fluctuations, is called the Coastal Regulation Zone(CRZ).
- CRZ along the country has been placed in four categories, which are as follows:
- CRZ I – Ecologically Sensitive Areas.
- They lie between low and high tide line.
- Exploration of natural gas and extraction of salt are permitted
- CRZ II – Shore Line Areas
- The areas that have been developed up to or close to the shoreline.
- Unauthorized structures are not allowed to construct in this zone.
- CRZ III – Undisturbed Area
- Rural and Urban localities which fall outside I and II.
- Only certain activities related to agriculture even some public facilities are allowed in this zone.
- CRZ IV – Territorial Area
- An area covered between Low Tide Line and 12 Nautical Miles seaward.
- Fishing and allied activities are permitted in this zone.
- Solid waste should be let off in this zone.
- CRZ I – Ecologically Sensitive Areas.
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