UPSC Prelims 2016 · Question 58 of 98

UPSC Prelims 2016 question on Green India Mission

Which of the following best describes 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

Select the correct answer using the code given below.

  1. 1 only
  2. 2 and 3 only
  3. 3 only
  4. 1, 2 and 3
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Answer: C. 3 only

Verdict

The answer is 3 only. The Green India Mission aims to restore and enhance forest cover and respond to climate change through adaptation and mitigation.

Analysis

Statement 3 is CORRECT. The National Mission for a Green India is one of the eight missions under the National Action Plan on Climate Change, and it aims at protecting, restoring and enhancing India's forest cover while responding to climate change through combined adaptation and mitigation, with attention to biodiversity, water, biomass, mangroves and wetlands alongside carbon sequestration. Statement 1 is INCORRECT because green accounting in budgets is a separate idea. Statement 2 is INCORRECT because a second green revolution in agriculture is a food security objective, not a forestry mission.

Source

Press Information Bureau material and environment ministry documentation.

How to crack it

The word green carries three unrelated meanings in Indian policy vocabulary, referring to forests, to environmental accounting and to the agricultural green revolution, and this question is built entirely on that ambiguity. Fix the mission by its parent framework instead: the Green India Mission is one of the eight National Action Plan on Climate Change missions, and all eight are climate missions. Parent framework beats keyword every time.

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