{"id":104403,"date":"2026-05-21T12:42:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T07:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=104403"},"modified":"2026-05-21T13:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:18:08","slug":"national-centre-for-sustainable-coastal-management-ncscm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/national-centre-for-sustainable-coastal-management-ncscm\/","title":{"rendered":"National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management (NCSCM)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management (NCSCM) recently completed the documentation and ground-truthing of all but 11 of Maharashtra\u2019s 23,415 wetlands.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was <\/span><b>established <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by the <\/span><b>Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change (MoEF&amp;CC)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in <\/span><b>2011<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as an <\/span><b>autonomous institution<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to support the <\/span><b>protection, conservation, rehabilitation, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">management, and <\/span><b>policy advice of the coast.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Headquarters: Chennai<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Tamil Nadu<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Aims and Objectives:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Strive for being a <\/span><b>world-class knowledge institution related to coastal zones, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">environment, resources, and processes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">promote integrated and<\/span><b> sustainable management of the coastal and marine areas<\/b> <b>in India<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for the benefit and well-being of the traditional coastal and island communities.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Advise the Union and State Governments <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and other associated<\/span><b> stakeholder(s) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on policy and scientific matters related to <\/span><b>Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM).<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It undertakes <\/span><b>studies and research <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the area of Coastal Zone Management including coastal resources and environment.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Six Research Divisions<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the NCSCM are:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Geospatial Sciences, Remote Sensing<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and Geographic Information Systems (<\/span><b>GIS<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">),\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Integrated<\/span><b> Social Sciences &amp; Economics,\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Coastal environmental impact assessment,\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conservation of Coastal &amp; Marine Resources,\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Knowledge, Governance and Policy,\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Futuristic Research and <\/span><b>Integrated Island Management Unit.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NCSCM is <\/span><b>partnering with leading national and international research institutions <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and agencies through advanced research, networking, and scientific committees. and peer-reviewed publications in international journals.\u00a0 <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deccanherald.com\/india\/maharashtra\/national-centre-for-sustainable-coastal-management-wraps-up-verification-of-23000-wetlands-in-maharashtra-4008450\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management was established by the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change (MoEF&#038;CC) in 2011 as an autonomous institution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":104426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7648,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-104403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-national-centre-for-sustainable-coastal-management-ncscm","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104403"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104435,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104403\/revisions\/104435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}