Plantation of Trees

Ministry of Environment and Forests08-August, 2016 15:59 IST

Plantation of Trees

The targets of Afforestation/Tree plantation for the year 2016-17 is set as 7082.15 lakhs under Twenty Point Programme. The details of afforestation targets and achievements by the States during the last three years are given in Annexure I.

Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change is implementing flagship schemes for afforestation such as National Afforestation Programme (NAP) for afforestation and eco-restoration of degraded forests and the National Mission for a Green India (GIM) which is one of the eight Missions under National Action Plan on Climate Change. These schemes are implemented in participatory mode under Joint Forest Management approach in the country.

Under NAP, an area of 21.36 lakh hectare have been treated with an investment of  Rs.3639.28 crore, since inception of this programme in 2000-01 to 2015-16.  The state wise details of area approved for afforestation and corresponding funds released during the last three years (2013-14-to 2015-16) is given in Annexure II.

GIM is a pan-India Centrally Sponsored Scheme which was approved in February 2014 for a total cost of ₹13,000 Crore. The ratio of Centre:State fund share is 75:25 respectively for all States except North-Eastern States and Jammu & Kashmir for which it is in the ratio of 90:10. The state wise details of area approved for afforestation and corresponding funds released under GIM is given in Annexure III.

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Annexure I

Details of Afforestation Targets and Achievements (Seedlings planted) under 20 point programme

for the years 2013-14 to 2015-16

Sl. No.	State/ UT	Seedling Planted( in Lakhs)
		2013-14		2014-15		2015-16
		Target	Achievement	Target	Achievement	Target	Achievement
1	Andhra Pradesh	2520.44	3050.71	2597.40	2212.73	966.75	1839.48
2	Arunachal Pradesh	37.44	1.36	37.57	0.27	1.37	0.06
3	Assam	7.67	0.00	26.39	0.00	0.26	0.00
4	Bihar	142.09	449.95	148.20	604.21	148.14	269.22
5	Chhattisgarh	417	577.79	417.30	696.00	327.67	98.70
6	Goa	1.46	2.60	4.77	4.50	0.98	0.33
7	Gujarat	809.38	995.82	945.10	1820.39	905.32	1689.92
8	Haryana	421.79	444.72	300.00	279.27	371.8	238.50
9	Himachal Pradesh	165.49	166.37	130.00	135.00	117	121.68
10	Jammu and Kashmir	58.83	58.77	86.45	59.61	56.55	76.60
11	Jharkhand	144.30	54.72	144.95	74.26	22.43	NR
12	Karnataka	518.44	777.17	443.00	519.29	429.59	435.38
13	Kerala	48.95	28.61	48.95	10.53	25.29	17.30
14	Madhya Pradesh	834.41	878.79	864.50	866.87	719.55	63.94
15	Maharashtra	1025.57	1770.58	1062.43	863.12	798.72	557.50
16	Manipur	74.75	116.55	93.47	92.02	94.9	62.06
17	Meghalaya	25.61	1.04	26.72	45.04	31.53	33.65
18	Mizoram	35.23	32.84	37.96	0.00	26.46	NR
19	Nagaland	12.68	65.63	24.96	0.00	6.83	NR
20	Orissa	650	771.81	1184.76	1242.17	697.39	960.03
21	Punjab	63.05	110.53	65.59	18.00	45.31	19.07
22	Rajasthan	370.5	473.13	345.50	451.96	371.15	461.14
23	Sikkim	40.04	31.93	40.04	23.07	31.27	16.31
24	Tamil Nadu	382.01	456.53	357.96	456.53	456.56	293.34
25	Telengana	-	-	-	445.79	389.81	1378.31
26	Tripura	132.93	105.83	135.85	106.19	105.82	15.38
27	Uttarakhand	129.48	212.17	104.00	175.09	104	157.76
28	Uttar Pradesh	495.50	599.41	443.17	919.73	310.25	587.03
29	West Bengal	51.61	50.75	52.85	100.18	4.88	324.19
30	A & N Islands	7.93	7.23	7.00	6.73	7.28	7.13
31	Chandigarh	0.65	0.70	1.01	0.82	1.17	1.33
32	D & N Haveli	1.43	3.33	1.43	3.52	1.3	3.03
33	Daman & Diu	0.07	0.39	0.07	0.16	0.07	0.00
34	Delhi	7.93	5.51	4.50	9.54	5.53	9.74
35	Lakshadweep	0.13	0.21	0.16	0.00	0.13	0.00
36	Puducherry	0.26	0.45	0.46	1.46	0.26	0.33
Total		9635.44	12303.93	10184.43	12244.07	7583.32	9738.43
	N R : Not reported.

Annexure II

National Afforestation Programme: Details of funds released and afforestation area sanctioned from 2013-14 to 2015-16
S. No.	State	Amount Released			Area
		(Rs. in crore)			(in hectares)
		2013-14	2014-15	2015-16	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16
1	Andhra Pradesh	3.75	4.56	0.87	1605	810	913
2	Bihar	12.84	7.00	5.01	3885	1786	2500
3	Chhattisgarh	21.38	20.00	10.20	5906	4699	4475
4	Gujarat	11.68	10.50	0.00	2735	5284	0
5	Haryana	17.94	11.00	8.54	3035	1900	2755
6	Himachal Pradesh	2.61	0.73	0.72	908	2237	2195
7	Jammu & Kashmir	8.11	3.59	0.00	2260	1606	0
8	Jharkhand	9.02	8.60	0.00	3975	3924	0
9	Karnataka	9.26	21.35	0.00	3070	2900	0
10	Kerala	6.99	2.82	1.05	1620	1478	2580
11	Madhya Pradesh	22.10	21.00	1.02	5110	4786	0
12	Maharashtra	32.33	35.00	9.45	6850	6647	3655
13	Orissa	5.36	17.92	14.90	4910	6535	4135
14	Punjab	2.00	1.87	9.49	1347	1628	1980
15	Rajasthan	2.81	3.35	0.00	2325	2550	0
16	Tamil Nadu	3.21	4.25	0.75	2094	750	800
17	Telangana	0.00	2.03	1.42	0	795	1500
18	Uttar Pradesh	20.15	12.00	0.00	4890	8548	0
19	Uttarakhand	6.01	2.50	2.68	1241	1330	2985
20	West Bengal	2.96	0.78	3.05	970	2495	2132
	Total (Other States)	200.49	190.85	69.15	58736	62688	32605
21	Arunachal Pradesh	0.00	0.15	0.00	0	1000	0
22	Assam	2.99	0.00	2.56	3675	0	0
23	Manipur	12.12	8.00	3.67	2530	1835	0
24	Meghalaya	4.50	3.61	1.35	3000	0	0
25	Mizoram	11.94	15.00	10.17	3000	3135	905
26	Nagaland	9.82	11.00	0.00	4000	2130	0
27	Sikkim	3.77	6.00	1.52	1095	1851	0
28	Tripura	11.99	9.17	5.73	4547	1796	2476
	Total (NE States)	57.13	52.93	25.00	21847	11747	3381
	G. Total	257.62	243.78	94.16	80583	74435	35986

Annexure III

Green India Mission: Details of area approved for afforestation and corresponding funds released under GIM from FY 2015-16 to 2016-17

S. No.	State	Amount Released		Area
		(Rs. in crore)		(in hectares)
		2015-16	2016-17	2015-16	2016-17
1	Andhra Pradesh	--	1.06	--	881
2	Chhattisgarh	23.39	17.39	20716	20716
3	Karnataka	1.06	0.87	760	760
4	Kerala	9.15	--	4978	--
5	Orissa	1.83	1.39	2177.72	2177.72
6	Punjab	6.12	--	3000	--
7	Uttarakhand	20.21	--	7483	--
8	Manipur	8.35	--	9906	--
9	Mizoram	--	9.88	--	19643
Total		70.09	30.59	49021	44178

This information was given by Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Shri Anil Madhav Dave, in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today. 

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