Panjim, Feb. 12 -- Following directions from the High Court, the National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management (NCSCM) has decided to identify and demarcate the high tide line (HTL) along the Goa Marriot resort hotel site based on morphological signatures following the guidelines provided by the Union Ministry for Environment and Forest (MoEF).
The Bombay High Court at Goa through a judgment passed in August 2018, while rejecting the second compliance report submitted by the Goa Coastal Zone Management Authority (GCZMA) with respect to the demarcation of the imaginary line parallel to the HTL, drawn from the existing light house across the Hotel Marriot and to remove all the structures falling within the line, had directed NCSCM to id...