The finalisation of the State’s Coastal Zone Management Plan (CZMP) has been delayed, as the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) is yet to demarcate the hazard line along the country’s coastal belt. The Survey of India (Department of Science and Technology), entrusted with the task to map, delineate and demarcate the hazard line, is yet to furnish its report. The hazard line is a composite line of the shoreline changes (including sea level rise) due to climate change, tides and waves. Sources reveal that the draft GCZMP, prepared by the National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management (NCSCM), has already been finalised and been placed before the National Green Tribunal (NGT) for approval. However, MoEF&CC is yet to decide on the hazard line along the coastal belt across the country. The same needs to be incorporated in the State coastal management plan, sources said. The old CZMP drafted in 1996 (extended time and again) was valid up to January 2017. Under the World Bank assisted Integrated Coastal Zone Management Project, MoEF&CC had in May 2010 signed an agreement with Survey of India to map, delineate and demarcate the hazard line over a period of five years. However, the project is still in the pipeline. The draft GCZMP has proposed to notify fishing villages, wherein all foreshore facilities required for fishing and fishery allied activities would be permitted by panchayats in areas under Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ). Further, the report has also proposed that Calangute, Candolim, Canacona, Taleigao and other ODP areas be demarcated as CRZ II.