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Coastal People’s Right to Life Movement (CPRM), an organisation for coastal communities, has urged the Puducherry authorities and the National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management (NCSCM) to support the 6.11-km coastal agelong affected by the Coastal Zone Management Plan (CZMP) and cancel each existent property projects permitted successful the no-development zone.
In its fact-finding report, CPRM warned that the CZMP’s support of existent property improvement connected the 6.11-km coastal agelong threatens sportfishing communities’ entree to coastal areas arsenic good arsenic ecologically delicate zones, and is successful usurpation of the National Green Tribunal (NGT)-mandated 5.3-km no-development zone.
“We request the contiguous extortion of sportfishing communities, coastal areas, and the 5.3-km no-development zone. The coastal agelong is captious for sportfishing communities successful Puducherry, Cuddalore, and Villupuram. Permitting existent property improvement present threatens their livelihoods, and volition effect successful irreparable harm to ecologically delicate areas,” said S. Ramachandran, State caput of the Puducherry portion of CPI (M).
The 2024 CZMP allows construction, existent estate, and concern activities successful zones overlapping with the NGT-mandated no-development area. This is successful usurpation of the CRZ Zone IV provisions, which prohibit improvement wrong 5.3 km from the high-tide enactment successful ecologically delicate areas, Mr. Ramachandran said.
According to the fact-finding report, lone 60% of the communal assets successful sportfishing villages person been registered, portion 551 acres of coastal onshore successful Puducherry and 175 acres successful Karaikal stay unregistered. In addition, sportfishing zones covering 610 quadrate nautical miles person not been registered, and coastal lands person not been allocated to conscionable the semipermanent lodging needs of the sportfishing villages.
CPRM urged the State government, Ministry of Environment, Puducherry Pollution Control Committee (PPCC), Coastal Zone Management Authority, and NCSCM to behaviour a caller high-tide and low-tide enactment survey utilizing GPS and outer imagery. The survey findings should beryllium incorporated into the CZMP earlier immoderate improvement activities are permitted.
The authorities should guarantee the sportfishing communities’ entree to coastal areas is protected. It should instrumentality sustainable improvement practices that align coastal improvement with biology protection, CPRM said.
It besides urged the authorities to afloat enforce the no-development portion mandated by the NGT and behaviour nationalist hearings earlier immoderate support of the CZMP.
