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Kerala to ready coastal zone management plan
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- A high-level meeting chaired by Chief Minister of Kerala decided to prepare Kerala State Coastal Zone Management Plan in a time-bound manner under the revised guidelines issued by the Centre in Jan 2019.
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- National Centre for Earth Science Studies (NCESS), Thiruvananthapuram, has been entrusted with the preparation of the plan.
- The meeting decided to make technical expertise and other facilities available for the NCESS to complete the plan before March 31.
- It also resolved to seek legal opinion before filing a reply to the Supreme Court directive to submit a comprehensive list of CRZ violations in Kerala.
- About National Centre for Earth Science Studies (NCESS):
(1) It is an autonomous research centre to promote scientific and technological research and development studies in the earth sciences.
(2) NCESS pursues problems related to land, sea and atmosphere.
(3) It was instituted by the government of Kerala in 1978, at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
(4) CESS was the earliest institute in the country to embrace the concept of Earth System Science (ESS).
(5) CESS carries out studies in river basin evaluation, ground water management, coastal erosion, and other special problems.
(6) CESS does research in earth system, micro-level watershed planning, natural hazards management, chemical analysis, CRZ mapping, and studies of air, water, land, noise pollution, etc.
(7) Recognizing the growth potential of CESS, resource constraints of the State Government and the role CESS can play in national development, the government of Kerala proposed the taking over of the institute by the Ministry of Earth Sciences.
Sources
The Hindu