Debabrata mohanty

Mumbai: Considering increasing number of construction works in Mumbai, Maharashtra government wants to set up a separate committee to give environmental approvals to the works.

"We have requested the Centre to allow us to form a separate sub-committee for approving infrastructure works in the city," minister of state for environment, Sachin Ahir told PTI.

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.

Goa

KOLKATA, 3 MAY: The World Bank in collaboration with the Centre and state governments has taken up a pilot scheme ~ Integrated Coastal Zone Management Project ~ in West Bengal, Gujarat and Orissa for overall development of the coastal regions of these states.

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A host of organisations from Tamil Nadu's coastal districts, representing the fishing communities, and advocacy groups submitted a memorandum for the rights of fishermen to over 50 MLAs and leaders from 10 major political parties. The memorandum contained reservations over parts of the Coastal Regulation Zone Amendments, 2010.

Mumbai The Centre

New Delhi: The regime for managing projects and construction on the 7,500-km coastline will undergo substantial changes with the environment ministry having prepared the long-pending coastal regulation zone norms.

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