Question : Integrated Coastal Zone Management

(a) The details of coastal management projects financed by the National and International agencies along with their head-wise expenditure;
(b) The expenditure in each head of “Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) Project” and share of Indian Government and foreign agencies since its inception;
(c) The purpose of the ICZM Project which has been running parallel to the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) notification in the country; and
(d) The agencies which conceptualized and proposed these purposes of “Integration and Management”?

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE
(DR. MAHESH SHARMA)

(a) The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) administers various coastal management projects financed by National and International agencies such as the Integrated Coastal Zone Management Project, Mainstreaming Coastal and Marine Biodiversity into production sectors in Sindhudurg/Maharashtra & Godhavari Estuary/Andhra Pradesh, Climate Resilient Coastal Protection and Management in India and Bay of Bengal Large Marine Ecosystem etc. The details of such projects are at Annexure-I.

(b) The details of expenditure under the various heads of the Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) Project are at Annexure-II.

(c) & (d) While the Coastal Regulation Zone Notification (CRZ) is a Regulation under the Environment (Protection) Act, the Integrated Coastal Zone Management Project is a World Bank assisted environment management project, drawn in consonance with the regulatory provisions as laid down in the CRZ Notification, such as shoreline protection/management and mapping, sewage treatment & effluent treatment, conservation of coastal bio-shields, self-help groups & community based organisations for livelihood and eco-tourism etc. in a holistic manner. An integrated approach to the project was collectively envisaged and designed by various agencies such as MoEFCC, The World Bank, Survey of India, State Governments of Gujarat, Odisha and West Bengal and concerned stakeholder Central Ministries, for scalable and replicable models of various project activities.


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