The story so far: This week, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India tabled a report in Parliament on whether steps taken by the Union Environment Ministry to conserve India’s coastal ecosystems have been successful. The Coastal Regulation Zone Notification 2019, implemented by the Ministry, classifies the coastal area into different zones to manage infrastructure activities and regulate them. The …
The Comptroller and Auditor General has exposed the irregular approval of a commercial project in Kochi in the wetland area of Vembanad Lake and the construction carried out in the No Development Zone of the Akkulam Lake region by a shopping mall in Thiruvananthapuram. The national auditor revealed that a portion of land adjacent to the boundary line of the …
Several projects in coastal regulation zones were approved during 2015-2020 despite inadequacies in environmental impact assessment reports, according to a new CAG report. The CAG report on 'Conservation of Coastal Ecosystems' said instances were observed where Expert Appraisal Committees of the Union Environment Ministry granted clearances to projects, though domain experts were not present during the deliberations. "Projects were approved …
