New Delhi, 04 April 2022: 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) |
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Andhra Pradesh | 2737 | 1433 |
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Chhattisgarh | 20191 | 19128 |
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Himachal Pradesh | 5480 | – |
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Jammu & Kashmir | 5680 | – |
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Karnataka | 1920 | 1920 |
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Kerala | 12298 | 9015 |
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Madhya Pradesh | 23358 | 19470 |
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Maharashtra | 6766 | 5224 |
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Manipur | 16920 | 11740 |
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Mizoram | 19643 | 19643 |
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Odisha | 16634 | 16634 |
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Punjab | 4304 | 4304 |
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Sikkim | 1509 | 1509 |
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Uttarakhand | 11045 | 7483 |
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West Bengal | 18666 | – |
| Total | 167151 | 117503 |