Lok Sabha Question No. 3215 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-07-12
Subject: Tree Plantation
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT,  FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: Parbatbhai Savabhai Patel, Naranbhai Bhikhabhai Kachhadiya

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION

## NO. 3215

TO BE ANSWERED ON 12/07/2019

## Tree Plantation

## 3215.  SHRI PARBATBHAI SAVABHAI PATEL: SHRI NARANBHAI KACHHADIYA:

Will the Minister of ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has any plan to increase tree plantation in the country including Gujarat;
- (b) if so, the details thereof, State-wise;
- (c) whether the Government has achieved the target of covering 33 percent of its geographical area under forest cover;
- (d) if so, the details thereof, State-wise; and
- (e) if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER  OF  STATE  IN  THE  MINISTRY  OF  ENVIRONMENT,  FOREST  AND CLIMATE CHANGE (SHRI BABUL SUPRIYO)

- (a)    &  (b)  Ministry  of  Environment,  Forest  &  Climate  Change  (MoEF&CC)  implements various   schemes for increasing tree plantation and afforestation in the country including Gujarat. National Afforestation Programme (NAP) for tree plantation in degraded forests through people's participation and National Mission for a Green India (GIM), which aims to  increase  forest  &  tree  cover  on  landscape basis,  are  the  two  majorcentrally  sponsored afforestation schemes of the ministry.An area over 2 million ha.has been afforested with an investment  of  about  Rs.3874croreunder  NAP  since  its  launching  year  2000.    The  Statewise  funds  released  during  the  last  three  years  under  NAP  and  GIM  is  given  in  the Annexure-I .  The ministry also supports school nursery and urban forestry programmaes. The  fund  under  Compensatory  Afforestation  Fund  Management  and  Planning  Authority (CAMPA), interalia , is also used in plantation activity including compensatory afforestation.  Besides, afforestation being the multi-departmental effort, is also taken up under  Mahatma  Gandhi  National  Rural  Employment  Guarantee  Scheme  (MGNREGS), Integrated  Watershed  Management  Programme  (IWMP),  which  from  2015-16  has  been amalgamated as  the  Watershed  Development  Component  of the  'Pradhan  Mantri  Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY)' National Bamboo Mission and various State Plan & NonPlan Schemes.
- (c) to (e)  As per the India State of Forest Report (ISFR), 2017 a biennial report  by Forest Survey  of  India  (FSI)  of  this  ministry,  the  total  forest  and  tree  cover  in  the  country  is 24.39%  of  the  geographical  area  of  the  country.  There  is  an  increase  of  8021  square kilometer (forest cover 6778 square kilometer, tree cover 1243 square kilometer) of total forest  and  tree  cover  compared  to  that  of  ISFR-2015.  The  state/UT  wise  forest  and  tree cover is given in Annexure II.

*****

Annexure referred to in reply of parts (a)&(b) of the Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 3215 on 'Tree Plantation' asked by Shri Parbatbhai Savabhai Patel and Shri Naranbhai Kachhadiya for reply on 12.07.2019.

## Yearwise and Statewise Details of funds released under National Afforestation Programme (NAP) and Green India Mission (GIM)  for the last three years (2016-17 to 2018-19)

## NATIONAL AFFORESTATION PROGRAMME

| S. No.   | State                | FY 2016-17   | FY 2017-18   | FY 2018-19   |
|----------|----------------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
| 1        | Andhra Pradesh       | 1.33         | 3.36         | 6.38         |
| 2        | Bihar                | 2.18         | 4.23         | -            |
| 3        | Chhattisgarh         | 4.92         | 10.86        | 7.82         |
| 4        | Gujarat              | 4.36         | -            | -            |
| 5        | Haryana              | 3.50         | 2.71         |              |
| 6        | Himachal Pradesh     | 0.00         | 1.73         | 2.92         |
| 7        | Jammu &Kashmir       | 0.00         | 7.20         | -            |
| 8        | Jharkhand            | 0.00         | -            | -            |
| 9        | Karnataka            | 7.33         | 3.24         | 10.99        |
| 10       | Kerala               | 0.00         | -            | -            |
| 11       | Madhya Pradesh       | 4.00         | 8.74         | 7.78         |
| 12       | Maharashtra          | 4.76         | 6.73         | 15.33        |
| 13       | Orissa               | 4.62         | 3.49         | 11.36        |
| 14       | Punjab               | 0.00         | -            | -            |
| 15       | Rajasthan            | 0.00         | 1.40         | 1.95         |
| 16       | Tamil Nadu           | 1.56         | -            | 2.07         |
| 17       | Telangana            | 0.00         | -            | -            |
| 18       | Uttar Pradesh        | 2.55         | 0.67         | 0.32         |
| 19       | Uttarakhand          | 0.00         | 3.36         | 2.58         |
| 20       | West Bengal          | 0.00         | -            | -            |
|          | Total (Other States) | 41.10        | 57.71        | 69.50        |
|          | North Eastern states |              |              |              |
| 21       | Arunachal Pradesh    | 0.00         | 0.86         | -            |
| 22       | Assam                | 0.00         | -            | 0.58         |
| 23       | Manipur              | 1.21         | 3.20         | 4.38         |
| 24       | Meghalaya            | 0.00         | 1.65         | 0.74         |
| 25       | Mizoram              | 6.74         | 5.80         | 7.79         |
| 26       | Nagaland             | 5.21         | 5.85         | 6.41         |
| 27       | Sikkim               | 5.09         | -            | 5.98         |
| 28       | Tripura              | 0.00         | 4.94         | -            |
|          | Total (NE States)    | 18.25        | 22.29        | 25.88        |
|          | G. Total             | 59.35        | 80.00        | 95.38        |

(Rs. In crores)

## GREEN INDIA MISSION

(Rs. In crores)

| Sl. No.   | States            | FY 2016-17   | FY 2017-18   | FY 2018-19   |
|-----------|-------------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
| 1         | Andhra Pradesh    | 1.06         | 0.45         | 2.67         |
| 2         | Arunachal Pradesh | -            | -            | -            |
| 3         | Assam             | -            | -            | -            |
| 4         | Bihar             | -            | -            | -            |
| 5         | Chhattisgarh      | 20.23        | 10.95        | 5.36         |
|           | Goa               | -            | -            | -            |
| 6         | Gujarat           | -            | -            | -            |
| 7         | Haryana           | -            | -            | -            |
| 8         | Himachal Pradesh  | -            | -            | -            |
| 9         | Jammu &Kashmir    | -            | -            | -            |
| 10        | Jharkhand         | -            | -            | -            |
| 11        | Karnataka         | 0.87         | 0.86         | 1.62         |
| 12        | Kerala            | -            | -            | -            |
| 13        | Madhya Pradesh    | -            | -            | 24.16        |
| 14        | Maharashtra       | -            | -            | 10.30        |
| 15        | Manipur           | 7.82         | 6.41         | 4.89         |
| 16        | Meghalaya         | -            | -            | -            |
| 17        | Mizoram           | 9.88         | 20.00        | 22.36        |
| 18        | Nagaland          | -            | -            | -            |
| 19        | Odisha            | 1.39         | 1.40         | 4.74         |
| 20        | Punjab            | -            | 6.22         | -            |
| 21        | Rajasthan         | -            | -            | -            |
| 22        | Sikkim            | -            | -            | 3.32         |
| 23        | Tamil Nadu        | -            | -            | -            |
| 24        | Telangana         | -            | -            | -            |
| 25        | Tripura           | -            | -            | -            |
| 26        | Uttar Pradesh     | -            | -            | -            |
| 27        | Uttarakhand       | -            | -            | -            |
| 28        | West Bengal       | -            | -            | -            |
|           | TOTAL             | 41.25        | 46.29        | 79.43        |

Annexure referred to in reply of parts (c) to (e) of the Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 3215 on 'Tree Plantation' asked by Shri Parbatbhai Savabhai Patel and Shri Naranbhai Kachhadiya for reply on 12.07.2019.

## State-wise details of Forest and Tree Cover in the country(As per ISFR, 2017)

(Area in Sq.km)

| Sl.No.   | State/UT            |   Geographical Area |   Forest cover | Tree Cover   |   Total Forest& Tree Cover |
|----------|---------------------|---------------------|----------------|--------------|----------------------------|
| 1        | Andhra Pradesh      |              162968 |          28147 | 3753         |                      31900 |
| 2        | Arunachal Pradesh   |               83743 |          66964 | 807          |                      67771 |
| 3        | Assam               |               78438 |          28105 | 1496         |                      29601 |
| 4        | Bihar               |               94163 |           7299 | 2263         |                       9562 |
| 5        | Chhattisgarh        |              135192 |          55547 | 3833         |                      59380 |
| 6        | Delhi               |                1483 |            192 | 113          |                        305 |
| 7        | Goa                 |                3702 |           2229 | 323          |                       2552 |
| 8        | Gujarat             |              196244 |          14757 | 8024         |                      22781 |
| 9        | Haryana             |               44212 |           1588 | 1415         |                       3003 |
| 10       | Himachal Pradesh    |               55673 |          15100 | 822          |                      15922 |
| 11       | Jammu& Kashmir      |              222236 |          23241 | 7815 *       |                      31056 |
| 12       | Jharkhand           |               79716 |          23553 | 2922         |                      26475 |
| 13       | Karnataka           |              191791 |          37550 | 5713         |                      43263 |
| 14       | Kerala              |               38852 |          20321 | 2959         |                      23280 |
| 15       | Madhya Pradesh      |              308252 |          77414 | 8073         |                      85487 |
| 16       | Maharashtra         |              307713 |          50682 | 9831         |                      60513 |
| 17       | Manipur             |               22327 |          17346 | 220          |                      17566 |
| 18       | Meghalaya           |               22429 |          17146 | 657          |                      17803 |
| 19       | Mizoram             |               21081 |          18186 | 467          |                      18653 |
| 20       | Nagaland            |               16579 |          12489 | 379          |                      12868 |
| 21       | Odisha              |              155707 |          51345 | 3993         |                      55338 |
| 22       | Punjab              |               50362 |           1837 | 1622         |                       3459 |
| 23       | Rajasthan           |              342239 |          16572 | 8266         |                      24838 |
| 24       | Sikkim              |                7096 |           3344 | 35           |                       3379 |
| 25       | Tamil Nadu          |              130060 |          26281 | 4671         |                      30952 |
| 26       | Telangana           |              112077 |          20419 | 2669         |                      23088 |
| 27       | Tripura             |               10486 |           7726 | 215          |                       7941 |
| 28       | Uttar Pradesh       |              240928 |          14679 | 7442         |                      22121 |
| 29       | Uttarakhand         |               53483 |          24295 | 767          |                      25062 |
| 30       | West Bengal         |               88752 |          16847 | 2136         |                      18983 |
| 31       | A &NIslands         |                8249 |           6742 | 35           |                       6777 |
| 32       | Chandigarh          |                 114 |             22 | 10           |                         32 |
| 33       | Dadra &Nagar Haveli |                 491 |            207 | 30           |                        237 |
| 34       | Daman &Diu          |                 111 |             20 | 10           |                         30 |
| 35       | Lakshadweep         |                  30 |             27 | 2            |                         29 |
| 36       | Puducherry          |                 490 |             54 | 27           |                         81 |
|          | Grand TOTAL         |             3287469 |         708273 | 93815        |                     802088 |