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The priority of the National Policy on Mitigation and Rehabilitation Measures for People Displaced by Coastal and River Erosion 2022 or the National Policy is to lay out procedures and systems to address the present and future erosion-related local challenges.
The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has prepared a draft policy on “Mitigation and Rehabilitation measures for people displaced by Coastal and River Erosion”.
A total of 6907.18 km long coastline of the Indian mainland was analyzed for the period from 1990 to 2018. It noted that 33.6% of the coastline is under varying degree of erosion, 26.9% is of accreting nature and the remaining 39.5% is in a stable state
The central government has formulated plans to rehabilitate people from low-lying coastal areas who may be adversely impacted due to rising sea levels in the coming decade, Union Minister of State for Earth Sciences Jitendra Singh informed the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.