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National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) had organised Ganga Vriksharopan Abhiyan in five main Ganga basin states – Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal.The drive was launched on 9th July 2018 for a week upto 15 July 2018 which was observed as ‘Shubharambh Saptah’.
Background :-
Ganga Vriksharopan Abhiyan was initiated as part of Forest Interventions in Ganga (FIG) component of Namami Gange programme. This campaign is particularly concerned with the afforestration path and is also dedicated in awareness campaign on the benefits of the afforestration among the stakeholders.
The states' forest departments of these five states acted as the nodal agency for the implementation of the campaign.It also saw participation from Ganga Vichar Manch (GVM), Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS), NGOs and educational institutions.
Under this campaign, number of schools, colleges and departments were requested to “Adopt a Plant” for making it people’s movement. Besides, various seminars, lectures etc were a charcterstics of the campaign.
Few trees that were planted under the campaign were :- Kanji, Siras, Chhitvan, Mango, Sheesham, Farmis, Jamun, Arjun, Gutal, Neem, Sagwan, Saal, Mahogni, Ber, Semal, Jungal Jalebi, Gulmohar, Kadam, Bamboo, etc
Benefits of Afforestation :-
The benefits that the awareness campaign puts forward are too many. Few of them are:-
National Mission for Clean Ganga:
NMCG is implementation wing of National Council for Rejuvenation, Protection and Management of River Ganga (also referred as National Ganga Council).It has a two tier management structure and comprises of Governing Council and Executive Committee. Both of them are headed by Director General (DG), NMCG. Executive Committee is authorized to approve projects under mission up to Rs.1000 crore.
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