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Targets sets under Green India Mission

Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change

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Posted On:

04 APR 2022 3:39PM by PIB Delhi


National Mission for a Green India (GIM) is one of the eight Missions under the National Action Plan on Climate Change. It aims at protecting, restoring and enhancing India’s forest cover and responding to Climate Change. The target under the Mission is 10 m ha on forest and non-forest landsfor increasing theforest/tree cover and to improve the quality of existing forest. The detail of state wise funds released and utilized under the National Mission for a Green India during the last three years is given in Annexure-1.

 

The Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office (DMEO), NITI Aayog, Government of India, has conducted the Evaluation of National Mission for a Green India in 2020-21 on aspects such as Relevance, Effectiveness, Efficiency, Sustainability, Impacts and Equity within the scheme and has further recommended the continuation of scheme.   

 

The State-wise details of targets and its achievements regarding the creation of plantationis given in Annexure-II. All the states are being encouraged for participating in implementing GIM.

 

This information was given by the Minister of State for Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Shri Ashwini Kumar Choubey in a written reply in Lok Sabha today.

 

 

Annexure-I

 

Year wise and State wise funds allocated and utilized

(as per utilization certificates furnished by the States) under GIM during the last three years:

Rs in Crores

S. No

States

FY 2018-19

FY 2019-20

FY 2020-21

Allocated

Utilized

Allocated

Utilized

Allocated

Utilized

1

Andhra Pradesh

2.67

2.67

2

Chhattisgarh

5.36

5.36

5.04

5.04

1.66

1.31

3

Himachal Pradesh

17.09

4

Jammu & Kashmir

25.73

5

Karnataka

1.62

1.81

2.21

2.21

2.35

2.35

6

Kerala

16.32

0.73

7

Manipur

4.89

4.89

4.16

4.03

6.74

6.74

8

Mizoram

22.36

22.36

17.71

17.71

2.99

2.99

9

Odisha

4.74

4.74

14.19

10.63

26.01

18.51

10

Punjab

0.00

3.19

3.92

11

Uttarakhand

11.30

8.91

27.89

24.73

12

Madhya Pradesh

24.16

9.76

30.65

19.76

24.86

13

Maharashtra

10.30

7.65

14

Sikkim

3.32

3.32

3.12

3.07

2.19

2.08

15

West Bengal

9.43

 

Total

79.43

71.19

106.01

71.35

112.65

90.89

 

 

Annexure-II

 

State wise targets and achievements done under Green India Mission from FY 2015-16 to 2020-21

 

S. No.

States

Advance work

 Target (ha)

Creation of Plantation Achievement (ha)

  1.  

Andhra Pradesh

2737

1433

  1.  

Chhattisgarh

20191

19128

  1.  

Himachal Pradesh

5480

  1.  

Jammu & Kashmir

5680

  1.  

Karnataka

1920

1920

  1.  

Kerala

12298

9015

  1.  

Madhya Pradesh

23358

19470

  1.  

Maharashtra

6766

5224

  1.  

Manipur

16920

11740

  1.  

Mizoram

19643

19643

  1.  

Odisha

16634

16634

  1.  

Punjab

4304

4304

  1.  

Sikkim

1509

1509

  1.  

Uttarakhand

11045

7483

  1.  

West Bengal

18666

 

Total

167151

117503

 

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