Lok Sabha Question No. 1346 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-07-25
Subject: Area under ESZ
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT,  FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: Rajmohan Unnithan, Praveen Kumar Nishad

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

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1346 ANSWERED ON 25.07.2022

## Area under ESZ

## 1346.   SHRI RAJMOHAN UNNITHAN: SHRI PRAVEEN KUMAR NISHAD:

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

- (a) whether  the  Government  has  details  of  land  in  sq  km  under  protected  forest,  national parks and wildlife sanctuaries across the country, if so, the details thereof, State and UT wise;
- (b) whether the Government has details of the total land in sq km under the Eco-Sensitive Zone currently; and
- (c) whether the freshwater marsh in the Sant Kabir Nagar district which is the largest natural flood plain wetland of Eastern Uttar Pradesh falls under 1 km Eco Sensitive Zone, if so, the details thereof including the steps to conserve this wetland?

## ANSWER

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

(SHRI ASHWINI KUMAR CHOUBEY)

- (a) The  State/Union  Territory  (UT)  wise  details  of  Protected  Forest,  National  Park  and Wildlife Sanctuary are given at Annexure.
- (b) The total area covered under Eco-Sensitive Zone, so far notified is 68776.07 sq.km.
- (c) The  Eco-sensitive  Zone  around  Bakhira  Lake  Wildlife  Sanctuary was  published  in  the Gazette of  India  vide  S.O.  06(E), dated 31 st Dec,  2018.   The  ESZ  area  is  of  35.46  sq. km and the ESZ extent is 1.0 km uniform around the Protected Area. The important steps taken to conserve this wetland are as follows:
- (i) Ministry provides financial assistance under Centrally Sponsored Schemes of 'Development of Wildlife Habitats' to State/UT Governments including Uttar Pradesh for the conservation and management for wildlife habitats.
- (ii) The Eco-Sensitive  Zone notification  provides  for Zonal Master  Plan,  which provide restoration of denuded areas,  conservation of existing water bodies, management of catchment areas, watershed management, groundwater management, soil and moisture conservation etc.

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## ANNEXURE

## ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (a)  OF  THE  LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1346 DUE FOR REPLY ON 25.07.2022 REGARDING 'AREA UNDER ESZ'

## Details of National Parks/Wildlife Sanctuaries/Protected Forests in States/UTs (Area in square

kilometre)

|   S.No. | State/Union Territory   |   National Park as on December 2020 |   Sanctuaryas on December 2020 | Protected Forest as per the India State of Forest Report 2021   |
|---------|-------------------------|-------------------------------------|--------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
|       1 | Andhra Pradesh          |                             1368.87 |                       6771.4   | 5,069                                                           |
|       2 | Arunachal Pradesh       |                             2290.82 |                       7614.56  | 11,857                                                          |
|       3 | Assam                   |                             1977.79 |                       1840.14  | 0                                                               |
|       4 | Bihar                   |                              335.65 |                       2901.68  | 6,183                                                           |
|       5 | Chhattisgarh            |                             2899.08 |                       3760.28  | 24,036                                                          |
|       6 | Delhi                   |                                0    |                         19.605 | 25                                                              |
|       7 | Goa                     |                              107    |                        647.96  | 755                                                             |
|       8 | Gujarat                 |                              480.12 |                      16618.4   | 2,898                                                           |
|       9 | Haryana                 |                               48.25 |                        118.21  | 1,158                                                           |
|      10 | Himachal Pradesh        |                             2256.28 |                       6115.97  | 28,887                                                          |
|      11 | Jharkhand               |                              226.33 |                       1955.82  | 18,922                                                          |
|      12 | Karnataka               |                             2794.05 |                       7923.22  | 3,931                                                           |
|      13 | Kerala                  |                              558.16 |                       2156.22  | 0                                                               |
|      14 | Madhya Pradesh          |                             4349.13 |                       7046.19  | 31,098                                                          |
|      15 | Maharashtra             |                             1273.6  |                       7592.3   | 6,433                                                           |
|      16 | Manipur                 |                              140    |                        708.143 | 3,254                                                           |
|      17 | Meghalaya               |                              267.48 |                         94.107 | 12                                                              |
|      18 | Mizoram                 |                              150    |                       1359.75  | 1,823                                                           |

| 19   | Nagaland                           |    202.02 |       43.91 | 0      |
|------|------------------------------------|-----------|-------------|--------|
| 20   | Odisha                             |   990.7   |   7094.65   | 25,133 |
| 21   | Punjab                             |     0     |    326.6    | 1,137  |
| 22   | Rajasthan                          |  3947.07  |   5592.38   | 18,543 |
| 23   | Sikkim                             |  1784     |    399.1    | 389    |
| 24   | Tamil Nadu                         |   827.516 |   6240.56   | 1,053  |
| 25   | Telangana                          |    19.615 |   5672.7    | 1,592  |
| 26   | Tripura                            |    36.71  |    603.639  | 2      |
| 27   | Uttar Pradesh                      |   490     |   5829.2    | 296    |
| 28   | Uttarakhand                        |  4915.02  |   2690.12   | 9,885  |
| 29   | West Bengal                        |  1981.48  |   1440.18   | 3,772  |
| 30   | A &NIslands                        |  1216.95  |    389.39   | 1,558  |
| 31   | Chandigarh                         |     0     |     26.009  | 0      |
| 32   | Dadra &Nagar Haveli and Daman &Diu |     0     |     94.3483 | 5      |
| 33   | Jammu&Kashmir                      |  2432.45  |   1729.03   | 2,551  |
| 34   | Ladakh                             |  3350     |   9000      | 0      |
| 35   | Lakshadweep                        |     0     |      0.01   | 0      |
| 36   | Puducherry                         |     0     |      3.9    | 2      |
|      | Total                              | 43716.2   | 122420      | 212259 |

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