NAGPUR: The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has set February 15 as the deadline for the states to declare eco-sensitive zones (ESZs).
The MoEF has issued guidelines for notification of ESZs around national parks and sanctuaries on February 9, 2011. However, the progress is far from satisfactory. Only a few states including Maharashtra have come forward with proposals.
The Supreme Court is considering the ESZ issue in two writ petitions filed in 1995 and 2004. The MoEF is of the view that the states be granted one last opportunity to submit site-specific proposals for declaration of ESZs, latest by February 15. In this regard, all state chief wildlife wardens and chief secretaries have been issued letters.
It has been more than a decade since wildlife conservation strategy 2002 was adopted by the National Board for Wildlife (NBWL), envisaging declaring lands falling within 10km of the boundary of the national parks and sanctuaries as eco-fragile zones. However, due to reservations among states, the matter was examined by the NBWL in 2005, wherein it was decided to have site-specific ESZs.
As far as Maharashtra is concerned, the wildlife wing has sent five ESZ proposals to the state government. It includes Pench and Mansinghdeo (416 sq km) in Nagpur and Koyna (727 sq km) and Sagareshwar (3.68 sq km) in Western Maharashtra and Jayakwadi (141 sq km) in Marathwada. The proposals were submitted in December.
"The state government has sought some minor queries before sending these site-specific proposals to the MoEF," sources said. They added that ESZ proposals for Tipeshwar, Nagzira, New Nagzira, Navegaon, New Navegaon, Bor and New Bor are ready and will be sent soon.
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