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As portion of the Tamil Nadu Coastal Restoration Mission (TN-SHORE), the World Bank volition straight money colony mangrove councils successful the State to facilitate bioshield enhancement done mangrove plantations.
Approved successful September 2025, the TN-SHORE is a ₹1,675-crore World Bank-funded task to fortify Tamil Nadu’s coastal resilience and economy. Of the full investment, astir ₹1,000 crore will travel from the World Bank and the State volition lend the rest. The inaugural is aimed astatine restoring 30,000 hectares of seascapes, safeguarding the endangered taxon specified arsenic turtles and dugongs, and supporting sustainable practices, including eco-tourism and integrative discarded management.
An important portion of TN-SHORE is mangrove plantation and restoration. To simplify money travel and alteration section communities to instrumentality fiscal decisions, World Bank funds volition beryllium channelled straight to the colony mangrove councils. These councils comprise section residents, with a assemblage subordinate serving arsenic president and the Forest Range Officer arsenic the member-secretary.
TN-SHORE Mission Director Deepak Bilgi said a assemblage procurement program had been drawn up and submitted to the World Bank. This would let for smaller allocations, up to ₹8 lakh, without the request for quotations oregon tenders. In all, 1,000 hectares of mangroves would beryllium restored — 300 hectares of caller plantations and 700 hectares of degraded areas, helium added. An archetypal corpus of ₹38 crore has been demarcated for this purpose.
Speaking astatine the Tamil Nadu Mangrove Conclave 2025, Supriya Sahu, Additional Chief Secretary, Departments of Environment, Climate Change, and Forests, said, “Mangroves indispensable beryllium brought nether ineligible extortion by notifying them arsenic reserve forests. For caller plantations, we are identifying imaginable sites specified arsenic abandoned aquaculture ponds and disused brackish pans, degraded lands, and gaps wrong the existing mangrove patches.”
Tamil Nadu has 41.9 quadrate kilometres of mangrove cover, comprising 1.19 quadrate kilometres of precise dense patches, 25.07 quadrate kilometres of moderately dense areas, and 15.65 quadrate kilometres of unfastened mangroves.
Mr. Bilgi said onshore parcels were besides being identified done the coastline mapping done by the National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management, though ground-truthing of this mapping was yet to beryllium carried out.
At the conclave, the Tamil Nadu authorities exchanged a memorandum of knowing with the United Nations Environment Programme and the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation for biology projects successful the beingness of Minister for Forests R.S. Rajakannappan.
Srinivas R. Reddy, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Head of Forest Force); Rakesh Kumar Dogra, Chief Wildlife Warden; Rahul Nadh, Director, Department of Environment; and members of the Tamil Nadu Governing Council for Climate Change were present.
