Critical Review of Coastal Area Planning in India

Abstract

The paper aims to describe the ground realities of coastal area planning in India. Indian peninsular being reach in coastal resources still there is a technical and knowledge gap in harnessing the coastal resource to its optimum utilisation. The concept of blue economy and its utilisation is still to be developed in India where as in global scenario the countries like New Zealand is far ahead to us in creating the database and utilising the coastal area to its full potential. India needs to critically analyse the gaps in the process and implementation of coastal area planning as it will help our economy to flourish and to achieve sustainable development goal no 14. This paper will describe the potential changes and best practices to be adopted for enhancing capabilities of Indian coastal line through effective coastal area planning.