PANJIM: The beaches of Goa being the main assets for the promotion of tourism, the Department of Tourism ensures that the existing facilities on the beaches are not only maintained but also improved wherever necessary.
PANJIM, A division bench of Bombay High Court at Goa comprising Justice S C Dharmadhikari and F M Reis stayed till further notice on Tuesday a Rs 25 lakh proposal of the Tourism Department to illuminate public beaches in North Goa.
The order was recorded in a PIL filed by the Goa Foundation in the wake of news reports that the Tourism Department had sanctioned the money to the Electricity Depar
While factories pollute the sea by letting chemicals flow at Mithrapatna near Sasihitlu here, fish processing units dump the garbage on the seashore posing threat to the environment.
Garbage of a fish processing unit dumped on the seashore at Mithrapatna near Sasihitlu in Surathkal.
Ahead of PM's visit, bitumen scraped from road near Adyar Poonga emptied onto coast barely 10 metres away from sea
IN yet another serious violation of the coastal regulations, the Chennai Corporation has dumped a large quantity of debris -mainly bitumen scraped out of the road in front of Adyar Poonga -along the Srinivasapuram beach in Pattinapakkam (Foreshore Estate).
BHUBANESWAR: Will the spectacular sight of mass congregation of endangered Olive Ridley sea turtles for mating and nesting on the beaches of Gahirmatha become history?
The beaches coming under the Gahirmatha Marine Wildlife Sanctuary have shrunk considerably.
Beaches along most of the shorelines of the world, exhibit variations in their geometric form over different time scales in response to the prevailing dynamic forces due to waves, tides and associated currents. The periods and intensity of erosion and accretion alternate over time and are generally coupled to nearshore wave conditions. The nearshore parameters, viz. wave runup, wave setup and wave energy, have been evaluated during storm and normal conditions of SW monsoon (June-September) and NE monsoon (November-February) by empirical parameterization along the Visakhapatnam coast.
