{"id":32932,"date":"2023-01-29T08:02:22","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T02:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=32932"},"modified":"2025-04-19T17:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T11:46:09","slug":"green-india-mission-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/green-india-mission-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Green India Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why in News?\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What is National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC)?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What is National Mission for a Green India?\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>News Summary<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>State of the Forest Report \u2013 2021<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why in News?<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Against the target of increasing tree cover by around 53,000 hectares, only around 26,000 ha has been achieved.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Similarly, forest quality improved in only 1.02 lakh ha against target of 1.6 lakh ha.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC)?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Central government, in 2008, had launched the country\u2019s first National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) outlining existing and future policies and programs addressing climate mitigation and adaptation.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Climate change mitigation<\/strong> means avoiding and reducing emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere to prevent the planet from warming to more extreme temperatures.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Climate change adaptation <\/strong>means anticipating the adverse effects of climate change and taking appropriate action to prevent or minimise the damage they can cause, or taking advantage of opportunities that may arise.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>There are <strong>11 national missions forming the core of the NAPCC<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li>Originally, there were 8 core missions. Later, in October 2022, 3 new missions were added to the list.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>These 11 missions represent multi-pronged, long term and integrated strategies for achieving key goals in climate change.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is National Mission for a Green India?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The N\u00a0ational Mission for a Green India or the commonly called <strong>Green India Mission (GIM)<\/strong>, is one of the eight Missions under the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC).<\/li>\n<li>It aims at protecting, restoring and enhancing India\u2019s forest cover and responding to Climate Change.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The target under the Mission is <strong>10 million ha on forest and non-forest lands for increasing the forest\/tree cover and to improve the quality of existing forest<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It envisages a holistic view of greening that extends beyond tree planting.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>GIM focusses on multiple ecosystem services such as biodiversity, water, biomass, preserving mangroves, wetlands, critical habitats etc. along with carbon sequestration.<\/li>\n<li>GIM also aims at convergence with complementary schemes and programmes for better coordination in developing forests and their fringe areas in a holistic and sustainable way.\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>A multidisciplinary team, both from Govt. and NGOs, are mandated to facilitate planning and implementation at cluster\/landscape unit level.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>News Summary<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>From 2015-16 to 2021-22, the Central government &#8211; based on submissions from 17 States &#8211; had approved a target of increasing tree\/forest cover by 53,377 hectares and improving the quality of degraded forest by 1,66,656 ha.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>However, in response to an RTI query, the Environment Ministry responded, with figures from 17 States, noting that the <strong>tree\/forest cover had increased by 26,287 hectares and forest quality improved in only 1,02,096 hectares as of December 31, 2022<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>For executing these projects, the Central government had allocated Rs 681 crore but only Rs 525 crore had been utilised, the Ministry revealed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>State of the Forest Report \u2013 2021<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>As per the India State of Forest Report-2021, forest and tree cover in the country increased by 2,261 square kilometre since the last assessment in 2019.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>India\u2019s <strong>total forest and tree cover was 80.9 million hectares<\/strong>, <strong>which accounted for 24.62% of the geographical area of the country<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The report said 17 States and Union Territories had more than 33% of their area under forest cover.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Madhya Pradesh had the largest forest cover<\/strong>, followed by Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Maharashtra.\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>The top five States in terms of forest cover as a percentage of their total geographical area were Mizoram (84.53%), Arunachal Pradesh (79.33%), Meghalaya (76%), Manipur (74.34%) and Nagaland (73.90%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is the definition of Forest Cover in India?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The forest cover is defined as &#8216;<strong>all land, more than one hectare in area, with a tree canopy density of more than 10 percent irrespective of ownership and legal status<\/strong>. Such land may not necessarily be a recorded forest area. It also includes orchards, bamboo and palm&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Q2) What is Climate Change Mitigation?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Climate change mitigation is action to limit climate change by reducing emissions of greenhouse gases or removing those gases from the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/states-come-up-short-in-targets-to-plant-trees-improve-forest-cover\/article66436049.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>States fall short of targets to improve forest cover, quality<\/u><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/green-india-mission-plan-falls-30-per-cent-short-of-target\/articleshow\/85733713.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Economic Times<\/u><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiascienceandtechnology.gov.in\/st-visions\/national-mission\/national-mission-green-india-gim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>indiascienceandtechnology.gov.in<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green India Mission aims to increase forest cover and improve the quality of existing forest in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":32934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-32932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32932","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=32932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}