{"id":26541,"date":"2024-09-13T05:52:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T00:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=26541"},"modified":"2025-10-03T12:08:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T06:38:20","slug":"salt-pan-lands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/salt-pan-lands\/","title":{"rendered":"What are Salt Pan Lands?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Salt Pan lands:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>These are parcels of <strong>low-lying lands<\/strong> where <strong>seawater flows in<\/strong> at certain times, and leaves behind salt and other minerals.<\/li>\n<li>This ecosystem is instrumental in <strong>protecting the city from flooding.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>According to the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) notification of 2011, the ecologically sensitive salt pans <strong>fall under CRZ-1B category,<\/strong> where <strong>no economic activity<\/strong> is allowed with the exception of salt extraction and natural gas exploration.<\/li>\n<li>Nationally, some <strong>60,000 acres <\/strong>have been demarcated as salt pan lands, spread across Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Gujarat, and Karnataka.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Andhra Pradesh<\/strong> (20,716 acres) boasts the <strong>largest expanse of such land<\/strong>, followed by Tamil Nadu (17,095 acres) and Maharashtra (12,662 acres).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ecological Significance: <\/strong>Salt pans, which, along with the mangroves, stop the city from flooding, also host various species of birds and insects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What are Coastal Regulation Zones?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The coastal land up to 500m from the High Tide Line (HTL) and a stage of 100m along banks of creeks, estuaries, backwater and rivers subject to tidal fluctuations, is called the Coastal Regulation Zone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)?<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/eez\/\" target=\"_blank\">Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)<\/a> is defined under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) as an area of the ocean extending up to 200 nautical miles (370 km) immediately offshore from a country\u2019s land coast in which that country retains exclusive rights to the exploration and exploitation of natural resources.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-global\/kamala-harris-father-donald-marxist-9564064\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Controversy over Mumbai\u2019s salt pans: why do these lands matter?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salt Pan Lands are parcels of low-lying lands where seawater flows in at certain times, and leaves behind salt and other minerals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26542,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26541","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}