National Mission for a Green India (GIM) is one of the eight Missions under the National Action Plan on Climate Change. It aims at protecting, restoring and enhancing India’s forest cover and responding to Climate Change. The target under the Mission is 10 m ha on forest and non-forest landsfor increasing theforest/tree cover and to improve the quality of existing forest. The detail of state wise funds released and utilized under the National Mission for a Green India during the last three years is given in Annexure-1.
The Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office (DMEO), NITI Aayog, Government of India, has conducted the Evaluation of National Mission for a Green India in 2020-21 on aspects such as Relevance, Effectiveness, Efficiency, Sustainability, Impacts and Equity within the scheme and has further recommended the continuation of scheme.
The State-wise details of targets and its achievements regarding the creation of plantationis given in Annexure-II. All the states are being encouraged for participating in implementing GIM.