Fishermen say it will affect fishing industry

Livelihood matters: Fishermen staging a demonstration in Ramanathapuram on Tuesday.

RAMANATHAPURAM: Fishermen owing allegiance to the Ramanathapuram Fishermen Trade Union on Tuesday staged demonstration here demanding the withdrawal of Coastal Management Zone Act.

Its president A. Paulchamy presided.

Decks cleared for Navi Mumbai

BHUBANESWAR: The much awaited Integrated Coastal Zone Management Plan (ICZMP) will get a boost in the near future with a strategic approach to include the livelihood, safety, gender and local issues in its implementation stage through a coordinated way to benefit all the stakeholders.

NEW DELHI: What activities harm the 7,000km-long Indian coastline and what should be permitted? Should ports and airports be allowed to come up freely or should even small patches of mangroves be saved at all costs? Answers to such questions could soon be answered with the environment minister setting up a committee under M S Swaminathan to chart out the way for implementing coastal regulations.

'There is an immediate need for safeguarding coastal environment. Considering the fact that global warming is looming at large, soon a concept of Coastal Submersion Zone might come into force after CRZ and CMZ,' said Prof B C Choudhury from Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun.

MUMBAI: Corporators on Monday served a vital blow to Mumbai's chances to close the 127-hectare dumping ground at Deonar and converting it into a green belt.

MUMBAI: A major hurdle in the path of the proposed Navi Mumbai international airport has been cleared by the Union government. After repeated pleas from chief minister Ashok Chavan and former CM Vilasrao Deshmukh, the Centre has given a huge boost to the airport project by amending the 1991 notification of the Coastal Regulation Zone.

Whereas, by the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Environment and Forests number S.O. 114(E), dated the 19th February 1991, (hereinafter referred to as the said notification), the Central Government declared Coastal Stretches as Coastal Regulation Zone and restrictions were imposed on the setting up and expansion of industries, operations and processes in the said Zone.

They promised them the sky during the fortnight long hectic election campaign along Salcete

Mumbai The state government on Wednesday moved the Bombay High Court to clear some technical hurdle regarding coastal regulation rules for the proposed international airport coming up at Navi Mumbai.

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