The Maharashtra government will soon form a special task force to monitor coastal regulatory zone (CRZ) violations along the coastline of the state. However, it will not have any power to initiate action against the violations.
Valsa Nair Singh, environment secretary, Maharashtra government, says, the main role of the task force will be to identify the violations along the 720-km coastline and “verify complaints received about such violations”.
After the verification, the complaints would be forwarded to Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority for necessary action, Singh adds. The decision to form the task force comes after the central government revised the CRZ notification to monitor developments along the coasts.
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