Ritesh Joshi1, Alap Pandit2 and Kanchan Puri 1*

Blue Flag beach is an important eco-label progamme of Foundation for Environmental Education. One of the main pillars of the Blue Flag programme is environmental and sustainability education. Presently India has 12 Blue flag beaches. This note indicates about the environment education event at one of the blue flag beach i.e. Shivrajpur beach located at Devbhumi Dwarka, Gujarat. Gujarat was one of the top 10 States of India in the year 2022 in respect of number of foreign tourist visits. This eco-label shall help the tourism sector (beach tourism/coastal areas) in the State to further grow keeping in view of environmental management systems. It is important to enhance the beauty and grandeur of such blue flag beaches of India keeping in view the regulatory mechanism for conserving coastal environment.

Keywords: Shivrajpur, Blue flag beach, Environment education, coastal ecosystem, Gujarat India

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