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192 yearly monitoring through field survey of status of bio-diversity in Digha-Sankarpur and Sagar island areas to evaluate the health of bio-diversity of theareas periodic and regular water quality monitoring (especially BOD and bacterialcount) of coastal waters in and around Haldia and Digha-Sankarpur toevaluate that the water quality is meeting the required standard periodic data collection on fish catch (catch per effort) along coasts toevaluate that the health of coastal fish population is maintaining the requiredstandard continuous field monitoring of coastal process through deployment of suitablefield monitoring equipments yearly monitoring of crop and other agricultural and horticultural yield toevaluate their productivity due to the proposed interventions yearly monitoring and evaluation of GDP of the coastal districts of WestBengal monthly monitoring of movement and visit of tourist to Digha-Sankarpur andSagar island areas396. Positive response in any or all of the above indictors will point towards success andsustainability of the ICMZP. Most of these monitoring and evaluation will be carried out asplanned under paras 387 to 392. A few of the monitoring related to water quality, GDP, fishcatch, agricultural and horticultural production, fish catch etc are routinely collected by theconcerned departments of the government. These data will be accessed avoiding duplicationof monitoring works.(a) Performance M & E systems397. Performance of the M & E system will depend upon the correct choice of monitoringand evaluation items for a corresponding set of items of actions of an intervention program. Itwill also depend on the choice of correct methodology and equipment for the monitoring andevaluation exercise. Once these are achieved the adopted M & E system will performsatisfactorily and provide information about the efficacy of the adopted intervention programto address the chosen problem related to the ICZM.(b) Effectiveness M & E systems