Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
Green India Mission
Posted On: 29 JUL 2024 12:13PM by PIB Delhi
National Mission for a Green India (GIM) is one of the eight Missions outlined under the National Action Plan on Climate Change. It aims at protecting, restoring, and enhancing India’s forest cover and responding to Climate Change by undertaking eco-restoration activities in the forest and non-forest areas in the selected landscapes. The activities under GIM were started in the FY 2015-16.
So far, an amount of Rs. 909.82 Crores have been released to seventeen States and one Union Territory for creation of plantation/eco-restoration over an area of 155130 ha. An area of 464.20 ha has been taken under GIM for creation of plantation/eco-restoration in Dahanu Division of Palghar District in Maharashtra.
The State/UT wise details of funds allocated/disbursed and utilized under GIM during the last five years including Maharashtra is detailed in Annexure-1.
Annexure-1
State/UT wise funds allocated/disbursed and utilized under GIM during last five years (2019-20 to 2023-24)
(Rs. In Crores)
Sl. No.
State/UT
Funds Allocated/Disbursed
Funds
Utilized
1
Andhra Pradesh
2.02
2.74
2
Arunachal Pradesh
34.71
10.56
3
Chhattisgarh
12.91
11.38
4
Haryana
17.15
16.82
5
Himachal Pradesh
17.09
6.55
6
Jammu & Kashmir
32.22
31.70
7
Karnataka
14.27
13.56
8
Kerala
16.32
15.74
9
Madhya Pradesh
75.49
88.92
10
Maharashtra
0.00
1.78
11
Manipur
35.19
26.28
12
Mizoram
107.96
86.83
13
Odisha
79.00
74.91
14
Punjab
14.62
9.38
15
Sikkim
27.16
27.16
16
Uttarakhand
122.22
113.31
17
West Bengal
10.95
10.18
18
Uttar Pradesh
5.43
0.00
Total
624.71
547.82
Note: Fund Utilized also include the expenditure incurred from the release prior to FY2019-20
This information was given by the Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Shri Kirti Vardhan Singh in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.
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