Q. Which of the following best describes/describe the aim of ‘Green India Mission’ of the Government of India?

  1. Incorporating environmental benefits and costs into the Union and State Budgets thereby implementing the ‘green accounting’
  2. Launching the second green revolution to enhance agricultural output so as to ensure food security to one and all in the future
  3. Restoring and enhancing forest cover and responding to climate change by a combination of adaptation and mitigation measures

Select the correct answer using the code given below.

  • 1 only
  • 2 and 3 only
  • 3 only
  • 1, 2 and 3

Answer: (c) 3 only

Notes:

Green India Mission
  • It was launched in 2014.
  • It is one of the eight missions under the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC).
  • Its objective is to respond to climate change by a combination of adaptation and mitigation measures.
  • It is aimed at protecting, restoring, and enhancing India’s diminishing forest cover.
    • Its one of the main objectives is to enhance annual CO2 sequestration by 50-60 million tonnes by 2020.
  • Objectives of Green India Mission (GIM)
    • Growth in forest or tree cover to 5 million hectares (mha) and increase the quality of forest cover in another 5 million hectares of forest or non-forest lands. There are separate sub-targets for a variety of forests and their ecosystems namely, grassland, dense forest, wetland etc.
    • Increase the quality of degrading moderately dense forests – 1.5 million hectares (ha).
    • Ecologically restore open forests which are being degraded – 3 million hectares (ha)
    • Grasslands revival – 0.4 million hectares
    • Wetlands revival – 0.10 million hectares
    • Ecological restoration of shifting cultivation areas, mangroves, scrub, ravines, cold deserts, & abandoned mining areas – 1.8 million hectares with different sub-targets.
    • Increase in forest cover in urban areas and its outskirts – 0.20 million hectares.
    • Increase in forest and tree cover on marginal agricultural lands/fallows and other non-forest lands which comes under agroforestry – 3 million hectares.
    • Increase forest-based livelihood income for about 3 million households in and around these forest areas.
    • Increase Carbon Dioxide sequestration to a range of 50 to 60 million tonnes by 2020.