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221road and water transport facility for convenient marketing of agricultural produce, trainingand awareness campaign for livelihood options, etc. SIDCL will also facilitateimplementation of the Eco-tourism project in Sagar Island involving quality civilconstructions.Zoological Survey of India342. ZSI maintains a marine aquarium in Digha that now require modernisation andrenovation. The responsibility of ZSI will be to draw up a DPR identifying the workcomponents, invite tender, select the vendor and supervise the work of the company awardedthe work. All actions will follow the standing rules of the Central Government.Forest Directorate, Government of West Bengal343. High velocity wind along the coastal areas causes much physical damage of humanhabitation and agricultural crops. Bioshields, or vegetative cover, along coastal zones play asignificant role in shore protection and also in protection of the coastal habitations againstGOWB will be to create coastal bioshields in the Digha Sankarpur area on government landas part of ICZM project. The Directorate will raise and maintain appropriate plantation in anarea of 700 hectares following the departmental norms of expenditure over a five year period.Institute of Environmental Studies and Wetland Management344. IESWM will be responsible for the preparation of ICZMP of West Bengal. Based onthe data input from pilot projects as well as its own research on all aspects of coastalprocesses and socio-economics of the region the ICZMP will be prepared by IESWM. TheInstitute will play the role of a catalyst in mobilising coastal zone research having a bearingon ICZMP and will be responsible to build the base of form-process-material-biologysocioeconomicinteraction model on which the ICZMP will stand.345 As part of capacity building of IESWM, facility augmentation of the existing RemoteSensing & GIS laboratory, creation of computing facilities for climate change studies alongwith overseas training of scientists, procurement of advanced coastal process monitoringequipments have been proposed. The responsibility of IESWM in this capacity building effortwill be to procure the right instrument following the laid down procedures in government,install and calibrate them, keep them in running condition and to ensure generation of qualitydate adequately.University of Calcutta346. The project on Capacity Building of Calcutta University is mainly gearedtowards procurement and installation of some advanced instruments as a part of