Green India Mission

Green India Mission (GIM) has been initiated by the Ministry of Environment & Forest as one of the eight missions under National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) The mission has been approved by the Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change on 22nd February 2011 and an amount of Rs.200 crores have been allocated in the budget for the preparatory activities in the year 2011-12 in the union budget for the year 2011-12. Total Mission cost is Rs. 46,000 crore over ten years starting from the year 2012-13, coinciding with the 12th and 13th Five year Plan Period. The Mission aims to increase forest and tree cover on five million hectare area and to improve quality of forest cover on another five million hectare area as well as to improve ecosystems services, forest based livelihood income of about three million households and to enhance annual CO2 sequestration.