THE tourism industry in Kerala is on tenterhooks as it awaits approval of the state's Coastal Management Plan (CMP) by the Union Environment Ministry belatedly submitted—recently—in accordance with the provisions of the 1991 Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) law. Kerala, along with Andhra Pradesh, Guj-arat and Karnataka, was pulled up by the Supreme Court in April this year following a public interest litigation for not submitting the CMP even five years after the notification of the law.