Coastal Management Laboratory to be setup at paradip.

As part of World Bank’s aided Integrated Coastal Zone Management Project(ICZMP) , Orissa is in the streamline of setting up a coastal Management Laboratory for promoting wet land research and species research.In the initial phase the proposed laboratory would monitor programme on air, water and soil around Paradip coast. Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patanaik is very optimistic about the project.While addressing a state level workshop Chief Minister Naveen Patanaik said that about 120 km out of 480 long coastline of Orissa would be covered through the ICZMP programme. He added,” It is essential to manage coastal zone by balancing and integrating demands of various sectors , awareness about its values and promote its right use by the local people who use it for their livelihood.” ICZMP would be implemented in pilot basis in three states comprising West Bengal, Orissa and Andhra Pradesh.The project in Orissa will start at two places – Paradip to Dhamra port(40 km) and Gopalpur to Chilika (80 km).The estimation says that about 25 lakh people will be benefited from the ICZMP project.