Goa, May 25 -- The State Environment Department has directed the Tourism Department to urgently submit a comprehensive Tourism Management Plan for integration into the ongoing drafting of the Coastal Zone Management Plan (CZMP) 2019. In parallel, the Captain of Ports and the Mormugao Port Authority have been asked to provide updated port limits, while the National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management (NCSCM) has been tasked with supplying 1:25,000 scale land use shapefiles in accordance with the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) Notification of 2011.

These actions are essential to meet the technical criteria mandated by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC), which has stipulated that revised CZMP maps mu...