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title: "Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) Notification Explained"
description: "The Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) Notification restricts industrial activity along India's coastline to protect the environment and biodiversity."
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Model Diplomat Research Team · Last reviewed June 22, 2026

TL;DR

- The Coastal Regulation Zone Notification is an Indian environmental regulation that restricts industrial and developmental activity along the country's coastline and tidal-influenced water bodies.
- What legal authority underpins the CRZ Notification?
- How do the CRZ zones differ from one another?
- What changed in the 2019 Notification compared with 2011?
- How does the CRZ Notification relate to Integrated Coastal Zone Management?

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## Timeline

1. 19 February 1991

   The first notification was issued on under Section 3(1) and Section 3(2)(v) of the 1986 Act, read with Rule 5(3)(d) of the 1986 Rules, declaring the coastal…

2. 18 January 2019

   The 2019 reform, notified on , eased the floor-space and tourism-construction limits in CRZ-III, reduced the NDZ for thickly settled rural coasts, and introd…

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In January 2019, India's Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change notified the CRZ Notification 2019, reducing the No Development Zone for densely populated rural coasts from 200 to 50 metres.

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