What are the salient features of the National Oil Spill Disaster Contingency Plan?

First draft of National oil spill (NOS) Disaster contingency plan (DCP) was prepared on 14 April 1988 and forwarded to all concerned agencies for comments.
Final draft was approved by the committee of secretaries on 4th November 1993. India promulgated National oil spill Disaster contingency plan (NOS-DCP) in the year 1996. Coast guard was designated as central coordination authority.

The objectives of the plan are:

• To develop appropriate and effective systems for the detection and reporting of spillage of oil.
• To ensure prompt response to prevent, control, and combat oil pollution.
• To ensure that adequate protection is provided to the public health and welfare, and the marine environment.
• To ensure that appropriate response techniques are employed to prevent, control, and combat oil pollution, and dispose off recovered material in an environmentally accepted
  manner.
• To ensure that complete and accurate records are maintained of all expenditure to facilitate cost of recovery.

Responsibilities or NOS-DCP

• Port authorities responsible for action within port limit.
• Oil industries in and around their area of operations.
• Costal state PCB forinter tidal zones, beaches and up to death beyond which CG ships and craft cannot operate.
• Coast guard responsibilities lies beyond port limits.
• DGICG has overall responsibility for appropriate response to oil spill incidents.

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Information: National Oil Spill Disaster Contingency Plan (NOS-DCP) : (Updated - Year 2006)

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