30 per cent land to be under green cover: Minister
Promoting activities relating to afforestation through Green India was introduced in the last session of the parliament and is expected to be passed in the coming session. The authority would initially provide about Rs 3,000 crore followed by Rs 1,000 crore per year for four years to part finance afforestation of six million hectares of degraded forest land in two phases, he added. He said that forests were the repositories of priceless wealth of different species and life forms, both plants and animals.