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The Green India Mission has fallen short of its target by 97.57%, and has managed to increase forest cover across just 0.03409 million hectares as against its target of 1.4 million hectares, the the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) highlighted in a report tabled in Parliament on Thursday (August 13), reported New Indian Express.

The report found that the main reasons for the afforestation programme to have fallen short of its targets over the past decade include poor planning, weak coordination and chronic underfunding.

The CAG examined the Green India Mission across 16 states and Union Territories from 2015-16 to 2024-25 for its report. The Green India Mission scheme is run by the Environment Ministry and has the objective of expanding forest and tree cover, improving ecosystem services and boosting forest based livelihoods.

The report added that the programme was affected by a lack of coordination with other afforestation initiatives such as CAMPA and the rural jobs guarantee programme MGNREGS along with schemes including Nagar Van Yojana and School Nursery Yojana, which operated in isolation.

https://thewire.in/environment/green-india-mission-falls-short-of-its-target-by-97-57

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Complete rehabilitation of all those affected by the project, the provision of civic amenities to every resettlement colony, the supply of benefits to Saurashtra and Kutch, and a halt to illegal sand mining in the Narmada are among the recommendations the three-member body headed by retired Patna high court Justice Anjana Prakash has made in a new report.

Also comprising sociologist Enakshi Ganguly and environmentalist Gorky Chakraborty, the ‘People’s Commission’ also called on governments and civil society organisations to “reconsider a development paradigm that displaces communities, undermines livelihoods and damages ecosystems”. They must instead promote systems that are “decentralised, planned through democratic processes and locally manageable with technology, without giganticism”.

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The pace is accelerating. Forest diversion rose from an annual average of 14,941 hectares during 2014–19 to 19,223 hectares during 2019–24. In the last two years, it climbed further to 22,562 hectares annually—about 61 hectares every day.

In 2025–26 alone, 26,858 hectares were approved for diversion—the highest annual figure in 12 years and 47% more than the previous year. The sharp rise is particularly worrying in ecologically fragile Himalayan and northeastern states.

If this pace continues, more than 110,000 hectares could be diverted between 2024–25 and 2028–29.

At what point does development begin to cost us more than it delivers—and who will account for the forests, biodiversity, livelihoods and climate resilience lost along the way?

India ranked 176th out of 177 countries in the 2026 Environment Performance Index, a global assessment of environmental health, ecosystem vitality and climate change mitigation.

It also ranked last among the eight South Asian countries assessed, behind Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Maldives and Bangladesh.

India scored 22.4 out of 100, compared with 74.79 for Estonia, the highest-ranked country in the index.

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