Poor vigil opens door to CRZ violations

Issues of garbage disposal by Gram Panchayats (GPs), demarcation of deemed forests, Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) norms, were discussed at the district-level progress review meeting chaired by the District In-charge Minister Vinay Kumar Sorake here on ...

A DIVISION bench of Bombay High Court, hearing a batch of petitions seeking better norms and action against illegal dumping grounds, on Thursday expressed concern over alleged violation of Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) norms by BMC at Kanjurmarg ...

The Union government has exposed the country's shores to rampant development by leaving ambiguous the definitions of the coastline's features. The fallout of this uncertainty has been confusion among states and renewed construction bids near shores. The ...

More in: MAPUSA: Inspite of tall claims by the state administration that fields will be protected and no fields will be converted or be filled for construction activity, one can see in Anjuna a complete violation of this as a lot of fields are being ...

A high-level environment ministry panel has recommended coastal regulatory zone (CRZ) clearance for setting up a desalination unit at Kudankulam Nuclear Power plant (KKNPP) in Tamil Nadu.

A third-party expert appraisal committee has turned down Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) clearance to GSPC for its onshore gas terminal at Mallavaram and a process-cum-living-quarters platform offshore, in the Krishna-Godavari basin (KG-OSN-2001/03) in Andhra ...

The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has accorded environmental and coastal regulation zone (CRZ) approval to the Adani Group's Adani Hazira Port Pvt Ltd (AHPPL) for multi-cargo port with supporting utilities and infrastructure facilities at Hazira ...

Buildings falling under CRZ areas have more stringent restrictions with regard to height and the Floor Space

The department of sports and youth affairs has been granted a period of eight weeks more to raze the illegal compound wall built at a cost of 1.5 crore within the CRZ area at Non Mon in Vasco.