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Coastal Regulation Zones and Economic Development: Is Ecological Dilution the Cost of Progress?
By Debarati Choudhury, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad. Story So Far: The Coastal Regulation Zone Notification of 2019 has cleared the way for commercialisation and development projects in Mumbai, while racing towards a more vulnerable ecology. The proposal of lifting restrictions from over 6,070 kilometres of the coastline for commercial activities has rung alarms…