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Mahesh

17/08/22 06:10 AM IST

India Coastal Ecosystem

In News 
  • Recently, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India tabled a report in Parliament on whether steps taken by the Union Environment Ministry to conserve India’s coastal ecosystems have been successful.
  • This latest report contains the observations from an audit of Conservation of Coastal Ecosystems from 2015-20.
Major Findings 
  • The Environment Ministry hadn’t notified NCZMA as a permanent body and it was being reconstituted every few years.
  • In the absence of defined membership, it was functioning as an ad-hoc body.
  • There were instances of the Expert Appraisal Committees not being present during project deliberations.
  • At state-level where the State Coastal Zone Management Authorities (SCZMAs) take decisions, the central auditor observed the instances where SCZMA granted clearance on its own without recommending the projects to relevant authorities.
  • Further, SCZMAs had recommended many projects without the submission of mandatory documents.
  • Tamil Nadu didn’t have a strategy in place to conserve the Gulf of Mannar Islands.
  • In Goa, there was no system for monitoring coral reefs and no management plans to conserve turtle nesting sites.
  • In Gujarat, instruments procured to study the physiochemical parameters of soil and water of the inertial area of the Gulf of Kutch weren’t used.
Source- The Hindu 

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