6. Forests, Wildlife and Environment - Tamil Nadu Government

The Coastal Regulation Zone will cover the part of the coastal area ofTamil Nadu from Palar River Mouth to Thengapattinam in Kanyakumari Districtincluding tidal influenced water bodies. Work has been undertaken to prepareHigh Tide Line (HTL) demarcated digitized Coastal Village maps in the scale of1:5000 for easy identification of CRZ areas with reference to the Coastal ZoneNotification, 1991.Under the World Bank assisted Emergency/TsunamiReconstruction Project, the work of demarcation of HTL and superimposingthe same on village cadastral map has been entrusted to the Institute of RemoteSensing, Anna University, Chennai and the work is in progress and will becompleted by April 2008.Tamil Nadu State Coastal Zone Management Authority (TNSCZMA)The Secretary to Government, Environment and Forest Department,Government of Tamil Nadu is the Chairman, Director of Environment andForest Department is the Member-Secretary of the TNSCZMA. The Authorityhas the power to take measures for protecting and improving the quality ofthe coastal environment and preventing, abating and controlling environmentalpollution in the coastal areas of the State of Tamil Nadu.Other International Protocols And LawsBesides monitoring International Protocols like Clean DevelopmentMechanism (CDM) and Montreal Protocol on ozone depleting substances (ODS),the directorate is also responsible for monitoring the following centralnotifications likelUse of Fly Ash from Thermal Power Plants2 Bio medical waste (Management and Handling) Rules 19983 Ozone Depleting Substance (Regulation) Rules 2000The awareness programmes and workshops on these subjects are alsoconducted by the directorate largely through networking with schools andnon-governmental organizations.276