HRF condemns move by A.P. govt. on reclassification of CRZ

The Human Rights Forum (HRF) has condemned the determination by the Andhra Pradesh authorities to question the reclassification of stretches of the Visakhapatnam Beach Road from Coastal Regulation Zone III (CRZ-III) to CRZ-II nether the coastal regularisation framework.

Speaking to The Hindu, V.S. Krishna, HRF Andhra Pradesh and Telangana coordination committee member, alleged that the projected reclassification, purportedly aimed astatine promoting tourism, is successful effect an effort to dilute existing regulatory safeguards governing ecologically delicate coastal areas successful bid to alteration intensified commercialized expansion.