By PTI
NEW DELHI: Parliament on Wednesday handed the Coastal Aquaculture Authority (Amendment) Bill, 2023, which goals to decriminalise the offences dedicated in finishing up coastal aquaculture actions and guarantee ease of doing enterprise.
The invoice was cleared by the Rajya Sabha by a voice vote on Wednesday. It was handed within the Lok Sabha on August 7.
Replying to a debate on the invoice in Rajya Sabha, Parshottam Rupala, Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, stated that India has benefitted from the Green Revolution and the White Revolution.
“Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership, India will have a Blue Revolution which will take the fishermen community ahead,” Rupala stated.
The Coastal Aquaculture Authority (Amendment) Bill seeks to increase its scope, take away regulatory gaps and scale back the compliance burden with out diluting environmental safety guidelines within the coastal areas.
It removes provision of imprisonment for a interval of as much as three years and imposes solely a penalty in step with the precept of decriminalising civil transgressions.
It additionally seeks to fine-tune the operational procedures of the Coastal Aquaculture Authority to make it extra attentive to the wants of the stakeholders, promote newer types of environment-friendly coastal aquaculture like cage tradition and seaweed tradition, and usher in world greatest practices on this sector, together with mapping and zonation of aquaculture areas, high quality assurance and protected aquaculture merchandise.
The invoice goals to encourage the institution of services in areas having direct entry to seawater to supply genetically improved and disease-free broodstocks and seed to be used in coastal aquaculture, in addition to stopping using antibiotics and pharmacologically energetic substances, that are dangerous to human well being in coastal aquaculture.
The modification invoice offers for broad-basing “coastal aquaculture” to comprehensively cowl all actions of coastal aquaculture underneath its purview.
It removes ambiguity within the principal Act between farm and different verticals of coastal aquaculture.
Many of administrative issues which have been ambiguous have been suitably resolved underneath the invoice for administrative effectivity and accountability.
The invoice offers that the registration granted underneath the Coastal Aquaculture Authority Act shall prevail and be handled as legitimate permission underneath CRZ notification with the intention of enabling lakhs of small marginal aquaculture farmers to keep away from the doable want for acquiring CRZ clearances from a number of companies.
NEW DELHI: Parliament on Wednesday handed the Coastal Aquaculture Authority (Amendment) Bill, 2023, which goals to decriminalise the offences dedicated in finishing up coastal aquaculture actions and guarantee ease of doing enterprise.
The invoice was cleared by the Rajya Sabha by a voice vote on Wednesday. It was handed within the Lok Sabha on August 7.
Replying to a debate on the invoice in Rajya Sabha, Parshottam Rupala, Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, stated that India has benefitted from the Green Revolution and the White Revolution.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
“Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership, India will have a Blue Revolution which will take the fishermen community ahead,” Rupala stated.
The Coastal Aquaculture Authority (Amendment) Bill seeks to increase its scope, take away regulatory gaps and scale back the compliance burden with out diluting environmental safety guidelines within the coastal areas.
It removes provision of imprisonment for a interval of as much as three years and imposes solely a penalty in step with the precept of decriminalising civil transgressions.
It additionally seeks to fine-tune the operational procedures of the Coastal Aquaculture Authority to make it extra attentive to the wants of the stakeholders, promote newer types of environment-friendly coastal aquaculture like cage tradition and seaweed tradition, and usher in world greatest practices on this sector, together with mapping and zonation of aquaculture areas, high quality assurance and protected aquaculture merchandise.
The invoice goals to encourage the institution of services in areas having direct entry to seawater to supply genetically improved and disease-free broodstocks and seed to be used in coastal aquaculture, in addition to stopping using antibiotics and pharmacologically energetic substances, that are dangerous to human well being in coastal aquaculture.
The modification invoice offers for broad-basing “coastal aquaculture” to comprehensively cowl all actions of coastal aquaculture underneath its purview.
It removes ambiguity within the principal Act between farm and different verticals of coastal aquaculture.
Many of administrative issues which have been ambiguous have been suitably resolved underneath the invoice for administrative effectivity and accountability.
The invoice offers that the registration granted underneath the Coastal Aquaculture Authority Act shall prevail and be handled as legitimate permission underneath CRZ notification with the intention of enabling lakhs of small marginal aquaculture farmers to keep away from the doable want for acquiring CRZ clearances from a number of companies.