core sector communique

Brain Storming Session on Green India Mission Begins Tomorrow

The brainstorming session on the Green India Mission (GIM) is organized here tomorrow. The session will focus on the action plan for the year 2011-12, perspective plans for the next 5 to10 years and state level action plans of the Green India Mission. Senior Forest Officers of the Country, Civil Society, members of Joint Forest Management committee (JFMC) and officials of the Ministry would participate in it.

The National Mission for a Green India is one of the eight Missions under the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC). The Mission recognizes that climate change phenomena will seriously affect and alter the distribution, type and quality of natural resources of the country and the associated livelihoods of the people. GIM acknowledges the influences that the forestry sector has on environmental amelioration though climate mitigation, food security, water security, biodiversity conservation and livelihood security of forest dependent communities. The Key Innovations are the focus on quality of forests, ecosystem services, democratic decentralization, creating a new cadre of Community Youth as Foresters, Adoption of Landscape-based Approach and Reform Agenda as conditionality.

The Draft Green India Mission document was put on website for comments on 23rd May 2010. 7 Regional Consultations were organized over a month and a half from 10th June to 15th July in Guwahati, Dehradun, Pune, Bhopal, Jaipur, Vizag and Mysore. Over 1450 people participated in the consultations and thousands of mails were received from Panchayats, community groups, academia, researchers, schools, government agencies, private sector, media and concerned citizens. The revised document was approved by the Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change with certain observations. The Mission will be implemented in the twelfth and thirteen five year plans and the year 2011-12 would be the preparatory year.