Coastal Economic Zones

IMD forecasts warm winter, crop yields likely to feel the heat this year

Both the minimum and maximum will remain below normal in Southern Peninsular and Central India in these winter months.

Need incentive scheme for data centres, separate economic zones: TRAI

The telecom regulator has also proposed a new data centre readiness survey for states and a new national body for digitisation, sharing and monetisation of data

Third, and the biggest, edition of coastal defence exercise from today

"Coastal security being a major sub-set of coastal defence, the concept of 'Exercise Sea Vigil' is to activate the coastal security apparatus across India," stated the Ministry of Defence

Odisha seeks modification in provisions of draft Indian Ports Bill, 2021

Odisha government sought modification in provisions of draft Indian Ports Bill-2021 to address the concerns of coastal states

Geotextile tube meant to prevent costal erosion in tatters in AP, Odisha

Nearly 34% of India's coastline was under varying degrees of coastal erosion, noted a report by the National Centre for Coastal Research, Ministry of Earth Sciences.

Moving on the infrastructure agenda

Globally, municipal bonds are an established and major source of funding for urban infra. However, the municipal bond market is quite underdeveloped in India, notes Vinayak Chatterjee

New framework for coastal economic zones to be out soon: Shipping ministry

The majority of maritime projects, which are a mix of port modernisation, capacity enhancement, cruise terminals, port connectivity and coastal shipping, would be executed in the next five years

Shipping ministry, DIPP fight over ownership of coastal economic zone plan

The shipping ministry is implementing the CEZs under the government's ambitious Sagarmala programme

Coastal economic zones face land hurdle

The Centre's ambitious plan of setting up coastal economic zones (CEZ) has hit a sandbank. Non-availability of contiguous land parcels with the states along with huge acquisition and subsequent compensation costs are delaying the execution of the project, according to sources.In July 2016, under the Sagarmala programme, the government had announced setting up 14 CEZs, to be aligned to relevant ports in the maritime states and house coastal economic units for setting up manufacturing facilities. The CEZs will host big manufacturing and export-oriented units. These would include labour-intensive industries such as clothing, footwear, electronics as well as electrical and light manufacturing to tap foreign markets. The proposed CEZs are likely to be bigger in size than special economic zones (SEZs).But, according to an official in the know, the delay in setting up the CEZs was due to the complexities in finalising land by the states. In response to a Business Standard query, a shipping ..