Jairam Announces Special Panel To Monitor Gulf Of Kutch
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First published in Sanctuary Asia,
Vol. 31
No. 3,
March 2011
Speaking at the inauguration of National Centre for Marine Bio-Diversity Centre (NCMB) here, he said a notification to this effect will be issued in three days.
The announcement comes less than a month after the state's environment secretary, S K Nanda, requested that only “ecologically sensitive" areas in both the gulfs off Gujarat (Kutch and Khambat) be declared as Critically Vulnerable Coastal Area (CVCA) and not the entire gulfs.
Various areas along the country's coastline have been declared CVCAs, most notable among them is Sunderbans in West Bengal. Nanda had made the request during a meeting of state secretaries to discuss the Coastal Regulation Zone notification, 2011, last month. Read the full report here.
Source: Indian Express, Jamnagar.
