"CAG audit finds Green India Mission achieved under 10% of forest-restoration targets"
Green India Mission (GIM)
NAPCC mission to restore forest quality and cover as a climate adaptation/mitigation measure
CAMPA
statutory authority channelling industry levies from forest diversion into compensatory afforestation
The Green India Mission (GIM) is one of the eight national missions constituting the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC), launched in 2008 as India's overarching framework for addressing climate change across sectors. The NAPCC's eight missions span solar energy, enhanced energy efficiency, sustainable habitat, water, sustaining the Himalayan ecosystem, green India, sustainable agriculture, and strategic knowledge for climate change. GIM's mandate was explicitly ecological — to restore and enhance forest and tree cover, improve ecosystem services such as biodiversity, water, and carbon sequestration, and strengthen the adaptive capacity of forest-dependent communities.
The constitutional basis for forest governance rests on Entry 17A (forests) and Entry 17B (protection of wild animals and birds) in the Concurrent List under the Seventh Schedule, meaning both Parliament and State Legislatures can legislate on the subject. The Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 provides the overarching statutory framework. GIM was also India's primary instrument for fulfilling the forest-related component of its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement (2015) — specifically, the commitment to create an additional carbon sink of 2.5 to 3 billion tonnes of CO₂ equivalent through forest and tree cover by 2030.
GIM's operational design rested on improving the quality of existing forests over 1.4 million hectares and expanding forest cover — a target that distinguished it from mere plantation drives by focusing on ecological quality rather than raw tree counts. The mission envisaged convergence with two major funding streams: the Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA), which channels levies collected from industries diverting forest land into afforestation activities, and the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) — now rebranded as VB-G RAM G — which funds rural wage labour deployable for plantation and land-restoration works. This convergence model was intended to align employment generation with ecological restoration, making GIM both a climate and a livelihood instrument. …
Which of the following best describes/describe the aim of 'Green India Mission' of the Government of India?
1.Incorporating environmental benefits and costs into the Union and State Budgets thereby implementing the 'green accounting'
2.Launching the second green revolution to enhance agricultural output so as to ensure food security to one and all in the future
3.Restoring and enhancing forest cover and responding to climate change by a combination of adaptation and mitigation measures
Select the correct answer using the code given below.
Consider the following statements:
1.Animal Welfare Board of India is established under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986.
2.National Tiger Conservation Authority is a statutory body.
3.National Ganga River Basin Authority is chaired by the Prime Minister.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
With reference to the Green India Mission (GIM), consider the following statements:
1.GIM is one of the eight missions under the National Action Plan on Climate Change.
2.The primary aim of GIM includes implementing 'green accounting' in Union and State Budgets.
3.GIM is India's principal instrument for meeting the carbon-sink component of its NDC under the Paris Agreement.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
The Compensatory Afforestation Fund Act, 2016 established CAMPA to manage levies collected from industries diverting forest land. Which of the following best describes the intended relationship between CAMPA and the Green India Mission?
Which of the following is the correct constitutional basis for Parliament's authority to legislate on forests in India?
Assertion (A): Replacing a mission-based ecological restoration programme with a large-scale sapling-planting drive may not fulfil India's carbon-sink NDC commitment.
Reason (R): The India State of Forest Report distinguishes between tree cover outside recorded forests and true forest cover, and dense canopy within recorded forests is declining even as overall green cover increases.
Which of the following is correct?
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