Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Damage to Marine Ecosystem, 09/03/2017
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Damage to Marine Ecosystem, 09/03/2017. The Ministry has been implementing a program for assessment of health of the coastal waters of India by periodically monitoring the pollutant levels in the seawaters of India. There were occasionally marginal increases in the levels of pollutants in few locations in the Indian coast. The increase in marine pollution was specific to a few locations and increasing trend is localized in nature primarily relating to nutrient flux like nitrate and microbial activity due to discharge of untreated domestic sewage in coastal waters. The data on coastal pollution is being provided to the Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change to minimize pollution load into the coastal waters.