Which of the following best describes/describe the aim of 'Green India Mission' of the Government of India?
- 1.Incorporating environmental benefits and costs into the Union and State Budgets thereby implementing the 'green accounting'
- 2.Launching the second green revolution to enhance agricultural output so as to ensure food security to one and all in the future
- 3.Restoring and enhancing forest cover and responding to climate change by a combination of adaptation and mitigation measures
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Answer & explanation
Answer: (c) 3 only
Launched under the National Action Plan on Climate Change (2008), which has eight missions, the Green India Mission is about forests: protect, restore and enhance India's forest and tree cover while helping the country both adapt to and mitigate climate change. It is neither a budget-accounting reform nor an agricultural programme.
- ✗ 1. Valuing environmental costs and benefits in national or State accounts is 'green accounting', a separate idea; it is not what the Green India Mission does.
- ✗ 2. Raising farm output is the domain of agriculture programmes (NAPCC's own farm mission is the National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture), not of the Green India Mission.
- ✓ 3. GoI describes GIM as aiming to protect, restore and enhance India's diminishing forest cover and to respond to climate change through adaptation and mitigation; its goals include better forest/tree cover on 5 million ha and better quality on another 5 million ha.
Remember · Green India Mission (NAPCC mission): forest/tree cover up on 5 million ha, quality improved on another 5 million ha, more ecosystem services, forest-based livelihoods for 3 million households.
Sources
- Government of India: India's Fourth Biennial Update Report to the UNFCCC (2024) ↗ “The National Mission for Green India (GIM) is one of the eight Missions outlined under the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC).”
- Government of India: India's Long-Term Low-Carbon Development Strategy (2022) ↗ “The mission goals include: improve forest/tree cover by 5 million ha; improve quality of forest/tree cover by another 5 million ha; enhance ecosystem services including carbon sequestration”
Question and answer: UPSC's official GS Paper I (2016, Series A) — paper ↗ · answer key ↗. Explanation: Minimalist IAS, checked 30 Sept 2026 (how we verify). ·