Lok Sabha Question No. 3441 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-03-15
Subject: Degraded Lands
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: ANJU BALA, Tejpratap Singh,Yadav

## GOVERNMENT  OF INDIA MINISTRY  OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## DEPARTMENT  OF LAND RESOURCES

## LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED  QUESTION  NO. 3441 TO BE ANSWERED  ON 15.03.2018

## Degraded Lands

## 3441. SHRIMATI ANJU BALA:

## SI{RI TEJ PRATAP SINGH YADAV:

Will the Minister  of RURAL DEVELOPMENT  be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  the 35 per cent of country's  tand is degraded/eroded  due to deforestation' unsustainable agricultural  practices and excessive  ground water extraction etc';
- (c) whether his Ministry  has any plan/ scheme for the treatmenvreclamation  of degraded lands;
- (b) if so, the details of the extent of degraded  lands and the corrective measures  taken by the Government  in this regard, State/UT-wise;
- (d) if so, the details thereof  including funds sanctioned  and the work done during  the last three  years and the current  year, State/UT-wise;
- (e) whether the country has commiued  to land degradation neutrality by 2030 as part of sustainable  Development Goal and if so, the details thereof;  and
- (flthestepstaken/beingtakenbytheUnionGovernmentinthisregard?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER  OF STATE FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SHRI RAM KRIPAL YADA9

- (a) to (f): As per information  received  from Indian council of Agricultural  Research (ICAR), around 120.4 million ha area of the county is affected  by various  kinds of land degradation  comprising of water  erosion  (82.6 million ha), wind erosion (12.0 million ha), chemical degradation (24.5 million ha) and physical degradation  (1.0 million  ha).

ICAR has developed  several location specific  bio-engineering  measures to check soil erosion  due to run-off of rain water, sand dune stabilization  and shelter belt technology to check  wind erosion and reclamation  technology for problem soils in the country.

Department  of Land Resources  has sanctioned 8214 watershed development projects in 28 states (except  Goa)  [during  the period  2009-10 to 2014-15] covering an area of about 39.07 million hectare  under the watershed

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Development Component  (WDC) of the  pradhan Yojana (PMKSY) principally  for development  of cultivated area and culturable  wastelands. Mantri Krishi Sinchayee rainfed portions  of net

The activities  being undertaken through  the watershed development projects inter  alia include ridge  area treatment, drainage line treatment,  soil and moisture conservation, rain water harvesting,  nursery raising,  afforestation,  horticulture, pasture  development,  livelihoods for assetless  persons,  etc.

State-wise details  of number of sanctioned  projects,  area covered by the projects and Central share released  during the last three years and the current year (upto 28th  February 2018) under  IwMp/wDC-pMKSy  are given in Annexure r.

In addition,  other Central Ministries  / Departments  like Ministry  of Agriculture and Farmers welfare are implementing  schemes  and programmes like the  per Drop More Crop component  of PMKSY which inter alia includes  activities  for water conservation,  drought proofing,  water harvesting,  ground water recharge, etc. that complement  and supplement interventions  undertaken under the WDCPMKSY.

National Afforestation  & Eco-Development  Board,  Ministry  of Environment, Forests  & Climate  Change  is implementing National Afforestation Programme (NAP) for regeneration  of degraded forest and adjoining  areas through people's participation.  The scheme is being implemented through  a decentralized mechanism  of State Forest  Development  Agency (SFDA) at state level, Forest Development  agency (FDA) at Forest Division level and Joint Forest Management  committees  (JFMCs)  at village level. An amount of Rs 477.30 crores have been released to the States to treat an area of 152627 hectares during the last three years including the current year (2014-15  to 2017-l  g)  as on 2g-022018 details are given in Annexure II.

Further, Government of India has announced the commitment  to work towards achieving Land Degradation  Neutrality  (LDN) by 2030 with the cooperation and synchronized  efforts of allthe relevant Ministries.

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## Annexure referred  to in reply to parts (a) to (Q of Lok Sabha Unstarred  Question  No' 3441 for answer on 15'03'2018

State-wise  details of number of projects sanctioned,  area of the projects and funds released for the projects  in the last 3 years and the current  year

(Area in million  ha & Amount in Rs' crore)

| Sr. No.   | State             | Sanctioned (from 200e-1q!r2q45l   | Sanctioned (from 200e-1q!r2q45l   | Central Share Released   | Central Share Released   | Central Share Released   | Central Share Released    |
|-----------|-------------------|-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|---------------------------|
| Sr. No.   | State             | No. of Proiects                   | Area of the Proiects              | 2014-15@                 | 2015-16*                 | 2016-11"                 | 2017-18* (upto28.02.2018) |
| I         | Andhra Pradesh    | 432                               | 1.810                             | 163.28                   | 86.73                    | 120.96                   | r23.35                    |
| 2         | Arunachal Pradesh | r56                               | 0.467                             | 0.00                     | 18.00                    | 23.12                    | 0.00                      |
| 3         | Assam             | 372                               | 1.577                             | 6.99                     | 45.00                    | 0.00                     | 26.80                     |
| 4         | Bihar             | 123                               | 0.612                             | 21.47                    | 5.00                     | 28.26                    | t9_21                     |
| 5         | Chhattisgarh      | 263                               | 1 .195                            | 10.00                    | 20.00                    | 34.96                    | 33.45                     |
| 6         | Gujarat           | 610                               | 3.1 03                            | 72.34                    | 100.00                   | 11s.04                   | 87.51                     |
| 7         | Haryana           | 88                                | 0.362                             | 26.97                    | 6.91                     | 12.82                    | 10.94                     |
| 8         | Himachal Pradesh  | 163                               | 0.840                             | 0.00                     | 20.00                    | 35.40                    | 26.83                     |
| 9         | Jammu & Kashmir   | 159                               | 0.652                             | 51.43                    | 0.00                     | 25.59                    | 2,91                      |
| 10        | Jharkhand         | t7l                               | 0.91I                             | 0.00                     | 20.00                    | 17.68                    | 0.00                      |
| u         | Kamataka          | 571                               | 2.569                             | 125.43                   | 125.00                   | 145.72                   | 175.69                    |
| t2        | Kerala            | 83                                | 0.423                             | 1 5.16                   | 20.00                    | 16.62                    | l 1.53                    |
| l3        | Madhya Pradesh    | 517                               | 2.937                             | 303.98                   | 1s0.00                   | 129.44                   | 134.84                    |
| 14        | Maharashtra       | I 186                             | 5.128                             | 197.91                   | 2s0.00                   | 186.95                   | 279.21                    |
| 15        | Manipur           | 102                               | 0.491                             | 1 r.l0                   | 9.00                     | 11.29                    | 13.84                     |
| l6        | Meghalaya         | 96                                | 0.236                             | 37.16                    | 18.00                    | 1 1.56                   | 8.95                      |
| t7        | Mizoram           | 89                                | 0.373                             | 75.81                    | 8.87                     | 16.06                    | 10.00                     |
| l8        | Nagaland          | 111                               | 0.476                             | 95.09                    | 27.00                    | 60.84                    | 32.08                     |
| t9        | Odisha            | 310                               | 1.700                             | 248.79                   | 67.50                    | 91.99                    | 94.48                     |
| 20        | Punjab            | 67                                | 0.314                             | 0.00                     | 7.95                     | 0.00                     | 0.00                      |
| 21        | Raiasthan         | 1025                              | s.764                             | 403.08                   | 200.00                   | 199.35                   | 157.47                    |
| 22        | Sikkim            | l5                                | 0.066                             | 0.00                     | 6.30                     | 0.00                     | 1.40                      |
| 23        | Tamil Nadu        | 270                               | 1.368                             | 124.02                   | 75.00                    | 62.36                    | 82.75                     |
| 24        | Telangana         | 330                               | 1.399                             | 124.58                   | 70.00                    | 0.00                     | 5 1.14                    |
| 25        | Tripura           | 65                                | 0.213                             | 19.04                    | 20.89                    | 27.12                    | 9.99                      |
| 26        | Uttarakhand       | 65                                | 0.346                             | 49.77                    | 25.68                    | 16.1 5                   | 9.97                      |
| 27        | Uttar Pradesh     | 612                               | 3.045                             | 75.39                    | 75.00                    | 58.38                    | 63.93                     |
| 28        | West Bengal       | 163                               | 0.693                             | 25.85                    | 10.00                    | 24.06                    | 15.48                     |
|           | Total             | 8214                              | 39.07                             | 2284.63                  | 1487.83                  | 1471.72                  | 1483.75                   |

Water 'shed  Ma t Programme  (IWMP), ffirtheerstwhileIntegratedWatershedManagementProgram which was amalgamated  as the Watershed  Development Component (WDC)  of the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee  Yojana (PMKSY) from 2015-16

#Released  under  the Watershed  Development Component  (WDC) of the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee  Yojana (PMKSY)

- Note: l) WDC-PMKSY is not operational  in union Territories.
- 2) There is no sanctioned project in Goa.

## Annexure referred to in reply to parts (a) to (f) of Lok Sabha Unstarred  Question  No. 3441 for answer on 15.03.2018

State-wise details of number of funds released and Approved Advance  Work area under National A fforestation  Programme  (NAP)

(Area  in ha &Rs. in uore)

| Sr. No.   | State             | Amount Released   | Amount Released   | Amount Released   | Amount Released   | Approved Advance WorkArea   | Approved Advance WorkArea   | Approved Advance WorkArea   | Approved Advance WorkArea   |
|-----------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-----------------------------|-----------------------------|-----------------------------|-----------------------------|
| Sr. No.   | State             | 2014-t5           | 201s- l6          | 2016-17           | 2017-18           | 20t4-r5                     | 2015-r6                     | 2016-17                     | 2017-18                     |
| 1         | Andhra Pradesh    | 4.56              | 0.87              | 1.33              | 3.36              | 810                         | 913                         | 445                         | t487                        |
| 2         | Arunachal Pradesh | 0.15              | 0.00              |                   | 0.86              | 1000                        | 0                           |                             | l0l0                        |
| J         | Assam             | 0.00              | 2.56              |                   | 0.00              | 0                           | 0                           |                             |                             |
| 4         | Bihar             | 7.00              | 5.01              | 2.18              | 4.23              | 1786                        | 2500                        |                             | 2450                        |
| 5         | Chhattisgarh      | 20.00             | 10.20             | 4.92              | 10.86             | 4699                        | 4475                        |                             | 2983                        |
| 6         | Goa               | 0.00              | 0.00              | 0.00              | 0.00              | 0                           | 0                           |                             |                             |
| 7         | Gujarat           | 10.50             | 8.54              | 4.36              | 0.00              | 5284                        | 2755                        |                             |                             |
| 8         | Haryana           | 1 1.00            | 0.72              | 3.50              | 2.71              | I 900                       | 2195                        |                             |                             |
| 9         | HimachalPradesh   | 0.73              | 0.00              |                   | 1.73              | 2237                        | 0                           |                             | 2139                        |
| l0        | Jammu & Kashmir   | 3.59              | 0.00              |                   | 7.20              | I 606                       | 0                           |                             | 2128                        |
| ll        | Jharkhand         | 8.60              | 0.00              |                   | 0.00              | 3924                        | 0                           |                             |                             |
| t2        | Karnataka         | 21.35             | 1,05              | 7.33              | 3.24              | 2900                        | 2580                        |                             | 209s                        |
| l3        | Kerala            | 2.82              | 1.02              |                   | 0.00              | 1478                        | 0                           |                             |                             |
| 14        | Madhya Pradesh    | 21 .00            | 9.45              | 4.00              | 8.74              | 4786                        | 3655                        |                             | 5255                        |
| l5        | Maharashtra       | 35.00             | 14.90             | 4.76              | 6.72              | 6647                        | 4t35                        |                             | 41 50                       |
| t6        | Manipur           | 8.00              | 3.67              | t.2t              | 3.20              | I 835                       | 0                           |                             | 1733                        |
| t7        | Meghalaya         | 3.61              | 1.35              |                   | 1.65              | 0                           | 0                           |                             |                             |
| l8        | Mizoram           | 15.00             | 10.17             | 6.74              | 5.80              | 3135                        | 905                         |                             | 1750                        |
| l9        | Nagaland          | 11.00             | 0.00              | 5.21              | 5.8s              | 2130                        | 0                           |                             | 208s                        |
| 20        | Orissa            | 17.92             | 9.49              | 4.62              | 3.49              | 6s35                        | 1 980                       |                             | 4565                        |
| 2l        | Punjab            | 1.87              | 0.00              |                   | 0.00              | 1628                        | 0                           |                             |                             |
| 22        | Rajasthan         | 3.35              | 0.75              |                   | 1.40              | 2550                        | 800                         |                             | 1400                        |
| 23        | Sikkim            | 6.00              | 1.52              | 5.09              | 0.00              | 1851                        | 0                           | t9t4                        |                             |
| 24        | Tamil Nadu        | 4.25              | 1.42              | 1.56              | 0.00              | 750                         | l 500                       |                             |                             |
| 25        | Telangana         | 2.03              | 0.00              |                   | 0.00              | 795                         | 0                           |                             |                             |
| 26        | Tripura           | 9.17              | 5.73              |                   | 4.94              | t796                        | 2476                        |                             | 1835                        |
|           | Uttar Pradesh     | 12.00             | 2.68              | 2.55              | 0.67              | 8548                        | 2985                        |                             | 0                           |
| 27        | Uttarakhand       | 2.50              | 3.05              |                   | 3.36              | l 330                       | 2132                        |                             | 2782                        |
| 28 29     | West Bengal       | 0.78              | 0.00              |                   | 0.00              | 2495                        | 0                           |                             |                             |
|           | Total             | 243.78            | 94,16             | 59.35             | 80.01             | 74435                       | 35986                       | 23s9                        | 39847                       |

Source: National Afforestation  & Eco-Development  Board,

Minislry  of Environment, Forest  & Climate  Change.

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