| Environment Ministry to
hold consultations on Green Mission |
NEW DELHI, June 4:
The Environment Ministry will hold a series of
country-wide public meetings from next week to
discuss the proposed Rs 44,000 crore Green
Mission which aims to increase the total forest
cover by 20 million hectares by 2020.
The consultations are in keeping with
Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh’s decision to
discuss the mission with NGOs and various
stakeholders before framing its blueprint, a
part of the government’s plan to tackle climate
change.
The first meeting will be held in Guwahati on
June 11 to be followed in Visakhapatnam on June
15 and Pune on June 19. The fourth meeting will
be held in Deharadun (June 22), Bhopal (June
30), Jaipur (July 2) and Mysore on July 5.
Ahmedabad-based Centre for Environment Education
(CEE) which had organised country-wide public
consultations on controversial Bt brinjal will
hold the meeting to be chaired by Mr. Ramesh.
This is the first mission under the National
Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) which is
going through public scrutiny.
Of the eight missions under the NAPCC launched
by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last year, the
government has already started implementing
Solar, Energy Efficient and the Water Mission
which was approved last Friday.
“We hope by the end of August we would be in a
position to have a final design of the Mission,”
Mr. Ramesh had said recently.
The proposed draft emphasises a holistic
approach to greening with an aim to focus just
not on plantations and trees, but also on
restoring diverse ecosystems.
Regarding funding of the mission, Mr. Ramesh
said, “Initially, the money was proposed from
Compensatory Afforestation Management and
Planning Authority (CAMPA) collected from states
in lieu of diversion of forest land.
“But now with CAMPA money being diverted to
states as directed by the Supreme Court, we are
looking towards planning commission besides
development agencies and under the UN Framework
Convention on Climate Change for funds.” |
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