The Aves Island project didn’t received clearance from an expert committee on coastal clearance in February as it failed to satisfy the coastal zone regulations.
About:
Aves Island is an island of the Andaman Islands.
It belongs to the Stewart Sound Island sub-group in the North and Middle Andaman administrative district, part of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Timeline:
December 2018: The Government of India issued a coastal regulation zone notification that largely allows tourism and development projects located near coasts in mainland States to come up closer to the sea.
January 2019: It issued an Island Zone Protection Notification in to allow similar relaxations in the Andaman & Nicobar (A&N) Islands. It divides the big or major, Andaman Islands into two groups –
Group 1: Islands with geographical areas of > 1,000 sq. Km.
Group 2: Islands with geographical areas of > 100 sq. Km but < 1,000 sq. km. the new notification allows development at 20 m and beyond in small islands.
February 2019: However, the proposed Aves island project was not cleared by expert committee on coastal clearance because it was located 20 m away from the High Tide line (HTL). But the existing coastal zone regulations require such projects to be at least 50 m away from the HTL.
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