Lok Sabha Question No. 937 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-02-08
Subject: Bamboo Cultivation
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT,  FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: MAHEISH GIRRI

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.  937

TO BE ANSWERED ON 08.02.2019

## Bamboo Cultivation

## 937.    SHRI MAHEISH GIRRI:

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

- (a) whether the Government has taken any steps in order to skill youth in environment, forest and wildlife sectors and enable them to be gainfully employed/self-employed;
- (b) if so, the details thereof;
- (c) whether the Government has taken any step to promote bamboo cultivation/ plantation on a large scale; and
- (d) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER  OF  STATE  IN  THE  MINISTRY  OF  ENVIRONMENT,  FOREST  AND CLIMATE CHANGE (DR. MAHESH SHARMA)

- (a) & (b) Yes, Madam. In order to train youth in environment, forest and wildlife sectors and enable them    to  be  gainfully  employed/  self-employed,  MoEF&CC  has  launched  a  Green  Skill Development Programme (GSDP) in June, 2017 on a pilot basis. The programme is now being scaled up to an all India level. More than 30 skilling programmes are being conducted during  2018-19,  covering  diverse  fields  such  as  pollution  monitoring  (air/  water/  soil), Sewage Treatment Plants (STP)/Effluent Treatments Plants (ETP) /Common and Combined Effluent Treatment Plants operation (CETP), waste management, forest management, water budgeting & auditing, conservation of river dolphins, wildlife management, para taxonomy, including PBRs, mangroves conservation, bamboo management and livelihood generation. The  Indian  Plywood  Industries  Research  and  Training  Institute  (IPIRTI),  Bangalore  an institute under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change conduct training in connection  with  forest  product  utilization  for  plywood  industry  and  trade  and  allied industries. It  is  also  imparting  technical  education  and/or  training at  undergraduate, postgraduate, and/or any other level in technology of agro and forests products, adhesives and  laminates,  and/or  synthetic  finishing,  manufacturing  machinery.  Indian  Council  of Forestry Research  and Education (ICFRE), Dehradun is also conducting training for skill development.
- (c) & (d)     The restructured National Bamboo Mission (NBM) under the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers  Welfare has been launched in April, 2018.It focuses on the development of complete  value  chain  of  bamboo  sector  to  link  growers  with  consumers  starting  from planting  material,  plantation,  creation  of  facilities  for  collection,  aggregation,  processing marketing,  micro,  small  &  medium  enterprises,  skill  development  and  brand  building initiative  in  a  cluster  approach  mode.  The  objectives  of  the  NBM  include  increasing  the area under bamboo plantation in non forest Government and private lands to supplement farm income and contribute towards resilience to climate change as well as availability of quality  raw  material  requirement  of  industries.  The  bamboo  plantations  are  promoted predominantly  in  farmers'  fields,  homesteads,  community  lands,  arable  wastelands,  and along irrigation canals,  water bodies etc. This will help to enhance farmer's income. Till date  60  Hi-Tech  nurseries,  146  big  nurseries,  107  small  nurseries  and  16661  hectare  of bamboo based plantation have been approved for different NBM implementing States on the  basis  of  Annual  Action  Plan  submitted  by  them.  The  transfer  of  technology  through training, frontline, demonstration, publicity and training of trainers are an integral part of the  NBM  in  which  skill  development,  adoption  of  scientific  measure  and  training  of farmers and field level workers is provisioned.

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