Jairam Ramesh’s Rs.46,000 Crore Afforestation Plan Okayed

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First published in Sanctuary Asia, Vol. 31 No. 2, February 2011
 
Called ‘Green India Mission', the project involves adding 10 million hectares to the nation's 40-42 million hectares of good-quality forests, with the long-term target of increasing the ‘good' forest cover from 12% to 33% of the total land. Read the full story here.
 
Source: DNA, New Delhi 
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