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The plan has been prepared in accordance with the 2011 Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) notification, a release said. “The government’s High Tide Line doesn’t obey the moon but only what commercial interests dictate,” observed activist Nityanand Jayaraman. more-inThe Draft Coastal Zone Management Plans (CZMP) prepared by the National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management, a government-authorised agency, was released on Monday and published on the website of the Tamil Nadu environment department (http://tnenvis.nic.in) inviting comments in writing from various institutions, the public and NGOs by April 6, 2018. However, details on the variations between the maps drawn up based on 1991 notification and the 2011 notification were not forthcoming. Noting that the maps gave incomplete information and comparisons between the old CZMP and new plans were missing, he said the revised draft CZMP was geared towards protecting errant officials of the Coastal Zone Management Authority from the ire of the National Green Tribunal, rather than protecting the coast and coastal communities..