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Revised Mission Document - Green India Mission
June 20 , 2025
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- The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has released the revised document for 2021-2030 period.
- The revised mission document also projected, India could achieve a carbon sink of 3.39 billion tonnes, from the combination of all restoration activities.
- This will require an increase in the forest and tree cover over an estimated 24.7 million hectares.
- The National Mission for Green India aims to create an additional carbon sink of 2.5 to 3 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent through additional forest and tree cover.
- The mission’s interventions were started in the year 2015-16.
- About 11.22 million hectares of the area could be included under plantations till 2020-21, as per the revised document.
- The ministry will focus on restoration of vulnerable landscapes like Aravalli’s and Western Ghats Mountain ranges, along with mangroves and Indian Himalayan region.
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