3RD INTERIM REPORT ON 20th December 2019 1 iiird INTERIM REPORT ON CRZ VIOLATIONS IN KOLLAM DISTRICT 1. INTRODUCTION As per the direction of Supreme Court to prepare the list of violations against CRZ Notification across the State, Government vide Order No GO(Rt) No 98/2017/Envt. dated Thiruvananthapuram, 16/10/2019 (Annexure 1) have constituted Coastal District Committees (CDC)for ten coastal districts including the district of Kollam with District Collector as Chairman and District Town Planner as Convener for preparing the list of violations against CRZ Notification. All the concerned local body secretaries and Village officers are the members. Accordingly, the first meeting of CDC, Kollam was convened on 24.10.2019 and an Action Plan for collection and compilation of list of CRZ violations was discussed and decided.(Minutes of first meeting is enclosed as Annexure II.) In the government order neither guidelines nor prescribed formats for the collection of list of violations against CRZ Notification were provided. Hence it is decided in the First CDC meeting to collect the details in two phases. In the first phase, the focus was to collect location wise(i.e., survey number wise) number of CRZ violations in every village included in CRZ Notification. Category of violations such as residential, commercial etc. and land development were also to be identified. In the second phase details such as name and address of owners, status of owners, distance to the violations from HTL, area of construction/land etc. of identified CRZ violations were to be collected. Accordingly, Ist and IInd Interim Report on CRZ violations were prepared based on the formats (Annexure III) issued to all concerned local bodies and the reports were submitted to the Chief Secretary to Government on due dates viz.31-10-19 and 30-11-19 respectively. Immediately after the submission of IInd Interim Report, second meeting of CDC was convened on 02-12-19 (Minutes enclosed as Annexure IV) and the convenor had made a presentation on the reports submitted to the government and deficiency of data submitted by each local body was presented before the meeting. Future course of action was also decided in the meeting. However, proforma submitted by many of the local bodies were found still incomplete. Further to the second CDC meeting a training programme was conducted by Kerala Coastal Zone Management Authority (KCZMA) on CRZ violations and CRZ notifications on 10-12-19 in which it was pointed out that the cut of date for reporting CRZ CRZ VIOLATIONS KOLLAM C D C KOLLAM 2 violations may be 28-02-19 as the new CZMP was approved on that date. It was also told that the violations prior to 28-02-2019 are to be identified with respect to old CZMP ie CZMP, 1996. Though KCZMA has prepared a new proforma including Latitude and Longitude values, secretaries of local bodies with large number of CRZ violations had informed that they are not able to collect such information within such a short span of time. Hence in consultation with Chairman of CDC the members were directed to submit the details by 16-12-2019 in the old proforma with segregation of data prior and after 28-02-2019, buildings which are constructed before 1996 and permissible constructions as per CRZ notification. However, a few members had provided such details. As most of the local bodies could not provide the required information fully, the compilation and analysis of CRZ violations with respect to locations, floor area, type ,CRZ category etc were done based on the available data 2.CRZ in Kollam District- an overview Kollam being situated along the side of Lakshadweep sea, many back waters and rivers are included as tide influenced water bodies. Major tide affected water bodies other than the sea are Ashtamudy kayal, Vatta kayal, Kozhikode kayal, Kayamkulam kayal, Kottackayal, Edava Nadayara Kayal, Paravoor Kayal, Kallada Ar, Pallickkal Ar, Ithikkara Ar and other back waters with local names which are part of major back waters and other tributaries of main rivers. TS Canal, a man made water body is also coming under CRZ. As per the approved Coastal Zone Management Plan, 2019 (CZMP,2019) prepared based on CRZ notification 2011, 29 local bodies in the district falls under CRZ in Kollam District. The entire CRZ in Kollam District is spreading over 4 Taluksviz. Kollam, Karunagappally, Kottarakkara and Kunnathur and 44 villages within the district. The list of local bodies and villages coming under CRZ is enclosed as Annexure V and the administrative boundaries (Taluk, Village, Local bodies) are shown in figure 1. CRZ VIOLATIONS KOLLAM C D C KOLLAM 3 Figure 1 Administrative divisions in CRZ Total extent of CRZ in Kollam other than CRZ IV which is the area of water body up to 12 nautical miles from Low Tide Line in the case of Sea and area of tide affected water body from the mouth of water body at sea and up to the location where the salinity is measured as 5 ppm is 63.95 sq.km. Except mangrove and its buffer zone, Inter Tidal Zone and rock beach in Kollam Municipal Corporation (KMC) in CRZ 1A and 1B, all other CRZ in Kollam Corporation, Paravoor and Karungapally Municipalities are designated as CRZ II. The total extent of CRZ II in the District is 16.92 sq .km. CRZ III (in 26 Grama Panchayaths shown in Annexure V) has a total extent of 35.95 sq.km of which 33.41 sq.km falls in the No Development Zone (NDZ). The extent of CRZ III between 200m and 500m along sea cost is 2.54 sq.km. CRZ IV of the district covers over an area of 73.13 sq.km and CRZ IA and IB together constitute 8.97 sq.km whereas the mangrove buffer zone is only 2.11 sq.km. CRZ VIOLATIONS KOLLAM C D C KOLLAM 4 Table 1 TALUK WISE DISTRIBUTION OF CRZ CATEGORIES IN KOLLAM ) ) ) 2 2 2 ) ) 2 2 (km (km2 ) Taluk (km (km ) 2 HTL Seacoast (km ) HTL Creek (km) Mangrove CRZIA (km Mangrove Buffer Zone (km ITZ CRZ IB (km Rocky Beach CRZ IB CRZ II NDZ CRZ III ) b/w200 & 500m CRZ IV Karunagapally 25.42 251.23 .41 .99 2.2. 0 1.44 13.33 2.39 10.77 Kollam 29.94 450.61 0.47 1.12 5.64 0.01 15.48 16.85 0.15 61.12 Kottarakkara 0 9.86 0 0 0.03 0 0 0.79 0 0.32 Kunnathur 0 25 0 0 0.21 0 0 2.44 0 0.92 Total 55.36 736.70 0.88 2.11 8.08 0.01 16.92 33.41 2.54 73.13 As per CZMP 1996 which is prepared and approved based on CRZ notification 1991, which was valid up to 28-02-2019, Karunagappally Municipality and the area added to the then Kollam Municipality was under CRZ III. Also Kunnathur, Nedumpana, Paithreswaram and Thevalakkara Grama Panchayaths were not included in CZMP,1996 3. CRZ VIOLATIONS As per the data submitted by the local bodies, total number of CRZ violations reported so far is 4,868 against 2,818 and 2379 at the time of preparation of IInd and IIIrd Interim Reports respectively. It is reported that no site inspection and verification was made by the CDC for ensuring the authenticity of data provided by the local bodies and the Report on CRZ violations is solemnly a consolidation and analysis of data submitted by the secretaries of concerned local bodies only. Brief details on the analysis of CRZ violations at Taluk, Village and Local body levels are given below. 3.1 CRZ VIOLATIONS AT TALUK LEVEL The list of Taluks and local bodies fall under each Taluk where CRZ notifications are applicable is shown in Table 2 and Figure 1. Kollam and Karunagappally Taluks, situated along the coastal area of the district, account for maximum number of local bodies where CRZ notifications are applicable. Pavithreswaram grama panchayath is the only local body in which CRZ VIOLATIONS KOLLAM C D C KOLLAM 5 CRZ is demarkated in Kottarakkara Taluk. As per the report submitted by the secretary of Pavithreswaram grama panchayath no CRZ violations are found here. CRZ is demarcated in 4 local bodies in Kunnathur Taluk , 10 in Karunagappally and 14 in Kollam Taluk TABLE 2 LIST OF LOCAL BODIES WITH CRZ UNDER EACH TALUK IN KOLLAM Taluk Gramapanchayat Municipality Corporation Total 1. Alappad 2. Chavara 3. Clappana 4. Kulasekarapuram 10 5. Neendakara Karunagappally KARUNAGAPPALLY local 6. Panmana bodies 7. Thekkumbhagam 8. Thevalakkara 9. Thodiyoor 1. Adichanalloor 2. Chathannoor 3. Chirakkara 4. East Kallada 5. Mayyanad 14 6. Mundrothuruth KOLLAM Paravoor Kollam local 7. Panayam bodies 8. Perayam 9. Perinad 10. Poothakkulam 11. Thrikkaruva 12. Nedumpana 1. Sasthamkotta 4 local 2. West Kallada bodies KUNNATHUR 3. Kunnathur 4. Mynagappally 1 local Pavithreswaram KOTTARAKKARA body 29 local TOTAL 26 2 1 bodies Out of 4.868 CRZ violations reported from various local bodies, 53% of violations are found concentrated in Kollam taluk (2,570) followed by Karunagappally taluk with 46% (2,245). Table 3 shows Taluk wise distribution of CRZ violations. CRZ VIOLATIONS KOLLAM C D C KOLLAM 6 TABLE 2 TALUK WISE DISTRIBUTION OF CRZ VIOLATIONS TALUK KOLLAM KARUNAGAPPALLY KUNNATHUR TOTAL REPORTED 2570 2245 53 VIOLATIONS 3.1.2 CRZ VIOLATIONS BY TYPE Even though local bodies were directed to identify the type of buildings (according to the intended use) with CRZ violations, 256 were not classified accordingly. From the available data it is found that 4,198 violations are for residential purposes (86%) including hostel buildings.