Lok Sabha Question No. 1924 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-12-19
Subject: Plantation of Trees in Villages
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT,  FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: Gyaneshwar Patil, Chandra Prakash Choudhary, Nayab Singh

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTIO N NO. 1924

TO BE ANSWERED ON 19.12.2022

## Plantation of Trees in Villages

## 1924.  SHRI GYANESHWAR PATIL:

SHRI CHANDRA PRAKASH JOSHI:

SHRI NAYAB SINGH:

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

- (a)   the details of proposal of the Government for the plantation of trees in villages for soil conservation, better soil productivity;
- (b)   whether the Government has earmarked the progress of afforestation in urban and rural areas especially in tribal areas and if so, the details thereof; State-wise; and
- (c)   the details of funds provided/proposed to be provided to Rajasthan to promote plantation in the private sector?

## ANSWER

MINISTER  OF  STATE  IN  THE  MINISTRY  OF  ENVIRONMENT,  FOREST  AND CLIMATE CHANGE

(SHRI ASHWINI KUMAR CHOUBEY)

- (a) &(b)  Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has been making constant efforts to  increase  forest  and  tree  cover  and  has  taken  several  initiatives  towards  plantation activities  which  in-turn  also  help  in  soil  conservation,  better  soil  productivity  in  the country including villages/rural areas. Afforestation programmes under various Centrally  Sponsored  Schemes  (CSS)  of  the  Ministry  such  as  National  Afforestation Programme (NAP) and  National  Mission  for  a  Green  India  (GIM),  are  implemented with  participatory  approach.  The  funds  under  Compensatory  Afforestation  Fund Management  and  Planning  Authority  (CAMPA), inter-alia ,  is  used  for  forest  and wildlife  management  related  activities  including  compensatory  afforestation.  The Ministry  also  promotes  tree  plantation  as  people's  movement  through  school  nursery and urban forestry programmes. Tree plantation/afforestation being the multidepartmental effort, also taken up cross sectorally by various departments of the Centre and State Governments, Non-Government Organizations, civil society, corporate bodies etc.

Annual afforestation /tree plantation targets are fixed by the Ministry for all States/UTs including rural, urban and tribal areas which are achieved through the concerted efforts. The  State/UT  wise  details  of  afforestation  /tree  plantation  targets  fixed  for  the  year 2022-23 are given in Annexure .

- (c) There is no such proposal, at present in the Ministry, for providing funds to Rajasthan to promote plantation in the private sector.

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Annexure referred to in reply to part (a) &(b) of the Lok Sabha Un-starred Question No. 1924 due for reply on 19.12.2022 by Shri Gyaneshwar Patil,  Shri Chandra Prakash Joshi &   Shri Nayab Singhregarding 'Plantation in Villages'

## State/UT-wise details of afforestation/tree plantation targets for the year 2022-23 under Twenty Point Programme  (Area in hectare)

|   Sl.No. | Name of State/UT      |   Target - 2022-23 |
|----------|-----------------------|--------------------|
|        1 | Andhra Pradesh        |             204400 |
|        2 | Arunachal Pradesh     |                870 |
|        3 | Assam                 |               6740 |
|        4 | Bihar                 |              48170 |
|        5 | Chhattisgarh          |              45790 |
|        6 | Goa                   |                170 |
|        7 | Gujarat               |             167180 |
|        8 | Haryana               |              25310 |
|        9 | Himachal Pradesh      |              29610 |
|       10 | Jharkhand             |              33610 |
|       11 | Karnataka             |              58870 |
|       12 | Kerala                |              12810 |
|       13 | Madhya Pradesh        |              83460 |
|       14 | Maharashtra           |             229770 |
|       15 | Manipur               |               5810 |
|       16 | Meghalaya             |                850 |
|       17 | Mizoram               |               6080 |
|       18 | Nagaland              |               2620 |
|       19 | Orissa                |             127200 |
|       20 | Punjab                |              21310 |
|       21 | Rajasthan             |              37740 |
|       22 | Sikkim                |               3540 |
|       23 | Tamil Nadu            |              22860 |
|       24 | Telangana             |             291030 |
|       25 | Tripura               |              19400 |
|       26 | Uttarakhand           |              34650 |
|       27 | Uttar Pradesh         |             445590 |
|       28 | West Bengal           |              52640 |
|       29 | A &NIslands           |               2910 |
|       30 | Chandigarh            |                140 |
|       31 | D &NHaveli Daman &Diu |                650 |
|       32 | Delhi                 |               4900 |
|       33 | Jammu and Kashmir     |              20770 |
|       34 | Ladakh                |                150 |
|       35 | Lakshadweep           |                 20 |
|       36 | Puducherry            |                510 |