A Rs 700-crore action plan has been prepared as a permanent solution to sea erosion from Ullal to Karwar.

Speaking to mediapersons here on Monday, Minister for Ports and Ecology Krishna Palemar said the plan will be jointly implemented by the State and Union governments. The Asian Development Bank will provide 70 per cent loan and the balance will be borne by the government.

BHUBANESWAR: Some of the critically-important coastal eco-systems of Orissa are set to get a special mention when the Centre restores the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) 1991 with certain amendments shortly.

Both Bhitarkanika and Chilika figure in the draft for the significance they hold to the Indian coast.

The city's seashore is often remembered as beautiful thanks to the 12-km-long Marina, which got a face-lift after the 2004 tsunami.

But sea erosion has been reducing North Chennai's coastal strip to tiny strips, writes G Pattabi Raman in his photo essay

Minister denies potholes on Mission, Bussy Streets due to seawater intrusion

Plans afoot to construct groynes from Kuruchikuppam to Solai Nagar

PWD has also formulated a proposal to regain the lost beach

Kakinada, April 18: The destruction of hundreds of acres of mangroves in East Godavari and Yanam (an Union territory of Puducherry) districts is worrying environmentalists and nature lovers.

Sources say that industrialists and people with the help of political leaders are engaging in destroying the-se trees for preparation of illicitly-distilled (ID) liquor and for other reasons too.

The government is planning an extensive exercise to map a

Priscilla Jebaraj

NEW DELHI: For the first time, the Survey of India is going to map the country's vast 7,500-km-long coastline, identifying areas vulnerable to high tides, rising sea levels and coastal erosion, in an unusually comprehensive hazard-mapping exercise to be completed over the next five years.