Overview

• The government unveiled an updated National Mission for Green India on June 17, 2025, to restore degraded forest ecosystems in the Western Ghats, Himalayas and Aravalli mountain range.
• Under the Aravalli Green Wall Project, authorities will establish a 1,400-kilometre green corridor up to five kilometres wide across 29 districts in Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Delhi.
• The mission aims to rehabilitate 26 million hectares of degraded land and secure an additional carbon sink of 2.5 to 3 billion tonnes of CO₂ equivalent by 2030.
• Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav called on citizens to create Matri Van forests, build local nurseries with native species and participate in afforestation under the Green Credit Programme.
• The Aravalli range faces advancing desertification driven by deforestation, mining, overgrazing and human encroachment that has damaged aquifers and reduced biodiversity.