New Delhi, Jul 12 (PTI) India's Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) project has won World Bank's internal award for exceptional performance in achieving many development goals, a top Environment Ministry official said today.

Union Environment secretary C K Mishra said the ICZM project is among the eight projects awarded, selected out of 42 final nominations received from the World Bank Task Teams in the South Asian Countries.

Mishra lauded the achievement and termed it as "a great success story".

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