{"id":29893,"date":"2018-10-26T12:57:42","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T07:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=29893"},"modified":"2018-10-26T12:57:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T07:27:42","slug":"centre-proposes-relaxation-of-coastal-regulation-zone-norms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/centre-proposes-relaxation-of-coastal-regulation-zone-norms\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre proposes relaxation of coastal regulation zone norms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/centre-proposes-relaxation-of-coastal-regulation-zone-norms\/article23597011.ece\"><strong>Centre proposes relaxation of coastal regulation zone norms<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>States to get leeway in developing tourism, industrial infrastructure<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Centre has allowed India\u2019s coasts to be made more accessible to tourism and industrial infrastructure and given individual States considerable leeway to decide how they should plan such development, according to a draft version of the proposed modification to India\u2019s coastal regulation zone plan made public on the Environment Ministry website on Wednesday<\/p>\n<p><strong>CRZ\u00a0 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The coastal regulation zone, or CRZ, 2011, refers to regions in the proximity of India\u2019s 7000-km-long shoreline where buildings, tourism facilities, industrial projects, residential facilities etc are highly regulated<\/li>\n<li>In most cases it begins from the high tide line (HTL) to about 500 metres towards the landward side. The zone is subdivided into regions, with varying leeway for infrastructure development, depending on population and ecological sensitivity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>CRZ-1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CRZ-1, for instance, includes the most ecologically sensitive areas and according to current laws is off-limits for tourism activities and infrastructure development except for defence, strategic and rare public utilities projects<\/p>\n<p><strong>New CRZ 2018 Notification: <\/strong>Nature trails and eco-tourism activities may be permitted in CRZ-1 regions provided they conform to state-approved coastal zone management plans<\/p>\n<p><strong>Changes in 2018 notification<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Earlier:<\/strong> \u00a0CRZ, 2011 also defines as \u2018coastal zone,\u2019 the region from the HTL to 100 m of the creek along \u2018tidal-influenced bodies\u2019 such as bays, estuaries, rivers, backwaters, lagoons and ponds etc. that are connected to the sea<\/p>\n<p><strong>Change:<\/strong> The proposed laws relax this to 50 metres.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Earlier: <\/strong>Rural habitations or relatively undisturbed areas close to the shore, called CRZ-II, possessed a 200 metre \u2018no development zone\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>Change:<\/strong> This has now been reduced to 50 metres, provided the area has a population density exceeding 2161 per square kilometre as per the 2011 Census.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Concerns expressed by environmentalists<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Environmentalists say that the new regulations have been framed without a transparent public consultation process.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Committee report wasn\u2019t made public<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A committee headed by Shailesh Nayak, former secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences, had framed a report to reconsider the limits of the existing coastal zone regulations.<\/li>\n<li>The report however wasn\u2019t made public by the Environment Ministry<\/li>\n<li>It was only after several Right to Information requests that the policy was made available and that too, after pressure from the Central Information Commissioner<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Centre proposes relaxation of coastal regulation zone norms Context States to get leeway in developing tourism, industrial infrastructure\u00a0 What has happened? 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