{"id":2534,"date":"2023-02-02T01:28:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T19:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=2534"},"modified":"2025-03-25T22:23:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T16:53:58","slug":"conservation-initiatives-in-the-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/conservation-initiatives-in-the-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservation initiatives in the Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Key schemes announced in the budget are:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>MISHTI (Mangrove Initiative for Shoreline Habitats &amp; Tangible Incomes)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a new programme that will facilitate <strong>mangrove plantations<\/strong> along India\u2019s coastline and on saltpan lands.\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>The programme will operate through \u201cconvergence between MGNREGS, Campa Fund and other sources.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>This new programme will aim at the intensive afforestation of coastal mangrove forests.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Amrit Dharohar<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This is a scheme that will be implemented over the <strong>next three years to<\/strong> encourage the <strong>optimal use of wetlands<\/strong> and enhance bio-diversity, carbon stock, eco-tourism opportunities and income generation for local communities.<\/li>\n<li>Amrit Dharohar will emphasise the importance of wetlands and their preservation, with an outlook that is inclusive of local communities as caretakers of the ecosystem.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Q1) What are mangrove forests?<\/h2>\n<p>Mangroves are a special type of tre e that lives along tropical coastlines, rooted in salty sediments, often underwater.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-climate\/mishti-amrit-dharohar-pm-pranam-governments-new-conservation-initiatives-8417929\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>MISHTI, Amrit Dharohar, PM PRANAM: Conservation initiatives in the Budget<\/u><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a new programme that will facilitate mangrove plantations along India\u2019s coastline and on saltpan lands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}