CRZ Clearance in Naigaon, Vasai-Virar.

Plots in Naigaon near the Vasai creek, its tidal channels and mangroves may lie inside the regulated coastal zone. Whether they do, and in which category, depends on the sanctioned CZMP maps and the surveyed high tide line, not on how far the plot looks from the water. We read the plot's position on the CZMP, check the mangrove buffers, and file with MCZMA where a clearance is required.

Naigaon is the southern gateway to Vasai-Virar, the first station after the railway crosses the Vasai creek from Bhayandar. Much of its land is low and flat, and until recently a great deal of it was salt pans, paddy and marsh along the creek, with mangroves fringing the water. Over the last two decades large residential layouts have grown up on this land, especially on the eastern side, alongside older villages and some industrial and warehouse sheds. The creek, the tides and the monsoon still shape the ground here more than anywhere else in the town.