Lok Sabha Question No. 5199 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-04-03
Subject: Afforestation Programmes
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT,  FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: Rajveer Diler

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTIO N

## NO. 5199

TO BE ANSWERED ON 03.04.2023

## Afforestation Programmes

## 5199.   SHRI RAJVEER DILER:

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

- (a) the details of the programmes being run by the Government to promote afforestation for environmental conservation and rain water harvesting;
- (b) whether  the  Government  provide  any  financial  assistance  to  the  States  for  running afforestation programmes and if so, the details thereof;
- (c) the  details  of  the  funds  allocated  and  spent  under  the  programmes  being  run  for environmental conservation and afforestation during the last three years and the current year, year-wise; and
- (d) whether  the  Government  proposes  to  run  afforestation  programme  throughout  the country and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

MINISTER  OF  STATE  IN  THE  MINISTRY  OF  ENVIRONMENT,  FOREST  AND CLIMATE CHANGE (SHRI ASHWINI KUMAR CHOUBEY)

(a) to (d) The Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change supports the States/Union Territories for carrying out afforestation activities through Centrally Sponsored Scheme namely National Mission for a Green India (GIM). It aims at protecting, restoring and enhancing India's forest cover and responding  to  climate  change.  National  Afforestation  Programme  (NAP)  has been the flagship afforestation scheme of the Ministry, implemented since year 2000 on pan India basis, for afforestation in identified degraded forest areas with people's participation and decentralized forest governance. The schemes primarily support environmental conservation and rain water harvesting through afforestation/tree  plantation,  protection,  forest  landscape  restoration,  habitat improvement, soil moisture conservation activities etc. In order to achieve the targeted  objectives  of  National  Afforestation  Programme,  the  Ministry  has merged NAP into Green India Mission (GIM) so that the overall greening efforts are  augmented.  The State  wise  and  year-wise  details  of  funds  released  during last three years (2019-20 to 2021-22) and current year under NAP and GIM is given in Annexure .

Besides, afforestation is a major activity under the Compensatory Afforestation Fund as per the provisions of the Compensatory Afforestation Fund Act, 2016 and  the  Rules  made  there  under.  Further,  tree  plantation,  being  a  multidepartmental,  multi-agency  activity,  are  also  taken  up  cross-sectorally  under various programmes/funding sources of other ministries/ organizations and also through State Plan budgets.

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Annexure referred to in reply to part(a) to (d) of the Lok Sabha Un-Starred Question No.  5199  due  for  reply  on  03.04.2023  by  Shri  Rajveer  Diler  regarding  'Afforestation Programmes'.

State-wise and year-wise details of funds released under National Afforestation Programme (NAP) and Green India Mission (GIM)during the last three years (2019-20 to 2021-22) and current year.

## (A) National Afforestation Programme (NAP)

| Sl.No.   | States            | 2019-20   | 2020-21   | 2021-22   |
|----------|-------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
| 1        | Andhra Pradesh    |           |           |           |
| 2        | Bihar             | 1.18      | 0.80      | 4.30      |
| 3        | Chhattisgarh      | 5.71      | 9.88      | 5.56      |
| 4        | Goa               |           |           |           |
| 5        | Gujarat           |           |           |           |
| 6        | Haryana           |           |           |           |
| 7        | Himachal Pradesh  | 0.52      | 0.57      |           |
| 8        | Jammu &Kashmir    |           |           |           |
| 9        | Jharkhand         |           |           |           |
| 10       | Karnataka         |           |           | 9.01      |
| 11       | Kerala            |           |           |           |
| 12       | Madhya Pradesh    |           | 0.57      |           |
| 13       | Maharashtra       |           |           |           |
| 14       | Orissa            | 8.45      | 13.67     | 7.77      |
| 15       | Punjab            |           |           |           |
| 16       | Rajasthan         |           |           |           |
| 17       | Tamil Nadu        |           |           |           |
| 18       | Telangana         |           |           |           |
| 19       | Uttar Pradesh     |           |           |           |
| 20       | Uttarakhand       |           | 1.06      |           |
| 21       | West Bengal       |           |           |           |
|          | Total (Other      | 15.87     | 26.55     | 26.63     |
|          | North Eastern     |           |           |           |
| 22       | Arunachal Pradesh |           |           |           |
| 23       | Assam             |           |           |           |
| 24       | Manipur           |           |           |           |
| 25       | Meghalaya         |           |           |           |
| 26       | Mizoram           |           | 7.40      | 5.14      |
| 27       | Nagaland          | 2.35      | 4.27      | 10.65     |
| 28       | Sikkim            |           | 0.87      |           |
| 29       | Tripura           | 3.76      | 1.33      | 3.75      |
|          | Total (NE States) | 6.11      | 13.87     | 19.54     |
|          | G. Total          | 21.98     | 40.42     | 46.17     |

(Rs. in crore)

Contd….

(B) Green India Mission (GIM)

(Rs. in crore)

| Sl.No.   | States            | 2019-20   | 2020-21   | 2021-22   | 2022-23   |
|----------|-------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
| 1        | Andhra Pradesh    |           |           | 2.02      |           |
| 2        | Arunachal Pradesh |           |           | 13.43     |           |
| 3        | Chhattisgarh      | 5.04      | 1.66      | 6.12      |           |
| 4        | Haryana           |           |           | 9.55      |           |
| 5        | Himachal Pradesh  |           | 17.09     |           |           |
| 6        | Jammu &Kashmir    |           | 25.73     |           | 6.49      |
| 7        | Karnataka         | 2.21      | 2.35      | 4.45      | 2.93      |
| 8        | Kerala            | 16.32     |           |           |           |
| 9        | Madhya Pradesh    | 30.65     |           | 18.29     | 17.93     |
| 10       | Maharashtra       |           |           |           |           |
| 11       | Manipur           | 4.16      | 6.74      | 9.93      | 5.45      |
| 12       | Mizoram           | 17.71     | 2.99      | 29.86     | 36.27     |
| 13       | Odisha            | 14.19     | 26.01     | 17.74     | 8.48      |
| 14       | Punjab            | 3.19      |           | 3.32      | 2.7393    |
| 15       | Sikkim            | 3.12      | 2.19      | 7.77      | 6.57      |
| 16       | Uttarakhand       |           | 27.89     | 33.99     | 28.40     |
| 17       | West Bengal       | 9.43      |           |           | 0.76      |
|          | Total             | 106.01    | 112.65    | 156.46    | 116.01    |

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