QUESTION 18
GS3
15 marks
Explain the causes and effects of coastal erosion in India. What are the available coastal management techniques for combating the hazard?
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11 min
250 words
What the examiner wants
Explain the causes and effects of coastal erosion in India and the techniques available to manage it.
ExplainMake clear how and why it happens: causes, process, and an example for each point.
Demand-wise check
- 1Causes: waves and currents, sea-level rise, storms, sand mining, ports and breakwaters, dams cutting sediment, mangrove loss≈65 words
- 2Effects: land and livelihood loss, damage to infrastructure≈65 words
- 3Techniques: hard (seawalls, groynes), soft (beach nourishment, dunes, mangroves), managed retreat, shoreline management plans≈65 words
Open in about 30 words and close in about 30.
Answer plan
CausesEffectsTechniquesConclusion
Where marks usually go
- Ignoring human causes
- Only hard engineering
Draw this
- Diagram of groynes and beach nourishment
Value addition
- DataAbout a third of India's coastline faced some erosion between 1990 and 2018.National Centre for Coastal Research, MoES
- ExampleKerala's Chellanam and Odisha's Satabhaya villages face severe coastal erosion.State government reports
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Reviewed public-source references related to this PYQ. Same-syllabus references are labelled separately.
- Shakti Dubey · AIR 1 · Page 41 ↗Same syllabus reference
- Aniket Ranjan · AIR 48 · Page 15 ↗Same syllabus reference
- Shakti Dubey · AIR 1 · Page 17 ↗Same syllabus reference
- Aniket Ranjan · AIR 48 · Page 41 ↗Same syllabus reference
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