GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
RAJYA SABHA
QUESTION NO 773
ANSWERED ON 30.04.2015
Amendment in Coastal Regulation Zone notification
773
Shri A. K. Selvaraj
Will the Minister of ENVIRONMENT, FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE be pleased to satate :(a) whether it is a fact that the hotels and resorts in coastal areas that are not demarcated as
ecologically sensitive can now set up operations right upto the shoreline, increase the number of rooms
and create private beaches;
(b) whether it is also a fact that Government has relaxed green norms to build beach resorts; and
(c) whether it is also a fact that Government has amended the 2011 Coastal Regulation Zone Notification
to scrap restrictions on building hotels and beach resort in areas demarcated as CRZ II and if so, the
details thereof?
ANSWER
MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE (SHRI
PRAKASH JAVADEKAR)
(a) to (c) Under the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) Notification 2011 issued on 6th January 2011, the
constructions of beach resorts or hotels is not permitted in ecologically sensitive areas such as marine
parks, mangroves, coral reefs, breeding and spawning grounds of fish, wildlife habitats, etc. The
development of beach resorts or hotels in the designated areas of CRZ-II was permissible beyond 200 m
from High Tide Line (HTL) subject to conditions that overall height of the construction up to the highest
ridge of the roof shall not exceed nine meters, construction shall not be more that two floors i.e. with
ground plus one upper floor and total covered area on all floors shall not exceed 33% of the plot size.
The aforesaid conditions have been removed vide amendment dated 4th February, 2015 to the CRZ
Notification 2011 and now the permissible built up area for beach resorts or hotels in designated areas
of CRZ-II is as per the norms existed on 19th February, 1991, which is the date of issuing the Coastal
Regulation Zone Notification, 1991.