The implementation of Green India Mission promises to increase the forest cover there by contributing to achieve the targets of India’s Intended Nationally Determined Contribution. Justify (200 Words)
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KEY POINTS
· The Green India Mission is one of eight missions under the National Action Plan on Climate Change and aims at protecting, restoring and enhancing India’s diminishing forest cover and responding to climate change by a combination of adaptation and mitigation measures.
· It hinges on decentralized participatory approach by involving grass root level communities and organizations in decision making, planning, implement.
· Recently, Union Government has merged Green India Mission (GIM) with the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). By merging GIM with MGNREGA Scheme government seeks to increase 10 million hectares of forest cover.
· Under MGNREGA for afforestation, forest works such as pre-plantation, planting, watering and pit digging will be undertaken
Fencing, plant support and protection activities, mulching, weeding and manuring the plants will be also undertaken.
· Technical advice related to the plant species suitable for area and to raise nurseries will be provided by State Forest Development Agencies (SFDA).
· Though Plantation drive increases the green cover in the forests the plant species sown need to be diverse and should be indigenous to the area, this helps not only increasing the biological diversity of the ecosystem but also its stability.
· Further impact of the exotic species and invasive alien species need to prevented by removing them from the forests.
Sahitya 6 years
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Raj 6 years
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better understanding. Try giving arguments in favour of the question and try
adding some changes to mission which promote the forest cover. Keep Writing.
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Nandadeep 6 years
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answer. Try adding some changes that needs to be made in the mission, like
preference to indigenous species for plantation drive, utilizing the knowledge
of local communities etc. Keep Writing.
