The draft of CRZ (Coastal Regulation Zone) Notification 2018 has been released by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change(MoEFCC), the final version of which is slated to replace the CRZ Notification of 2011 to govern activities in the 7500 km long coastline of India. This draft proposes a host of changes to the 2011 version, one of the major of said changes being that the “CRZ limits on land along the tidally influenced water bodies has been proposed to be reduced from 100 metres or the width of the creek, whichever is less, to 50 metres or the width of the creek, whichever is less.”
