The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved a Rs 1156 crore Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) Project, which is to be implemented over the next five years by the ministry of environment and forests.

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.

The government on Thursday decided to embark upon mapping the country's 7,500 kmlong coastline to identify areas which are vulnerable to sea erosion, high tide and waves. Once completed, the exercise will facilitate the government in taking corrective measures in helping people living around such pockets.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It is a scene of absolute destruction.

Digambar Kamat has been known to let things lie dormant and only make empty promises, writes Ervell E Menezes.

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No substance in charge against Chemplast

Tamil Nadu's CZM plan of 1996 to be final

Goan politicians, in CRZ matters and other cases, have betrayed the poor fisherfolk of Goa, says PETER FERNANDES