The Annual State of India’s Environment report, a yearly publication from Down To Earth magazine, was released at the Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2022.
- The dialogue is a national conclave of media persons organised by Delhi-based non-profit, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE).
- The report was released in Nimli, Rajasthan March 1, 2022, by Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Bhupender Yadav.
Salient Features
The report states that India is behind on at least 17 key government targets that have a deadline in 2022. The slow progress made so far means that the deadlines are unlikely to be met.
- The target for the economy is to raise the gross domestic product to nearly $4 trillion by 2022-23. But by 2020, the economy has grown only to $2.48 trillion (Rs 18 trillion).
- The target for employment is to increase the female labour force participation rate to at least 30 per cent by 2022-23; it stood at 17.3 per cent in January-March 2020.
- In the housing sector, the targets are to construct 29.5 million housing units under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY)-Rural and 12 million units under PMAY-Urban; only about 46.8 per cent and 38 per cent respectively of the targets under ‘Housing for All’ have been achieved.
- The target is to double farmers’ income by 2022. While the average monthly income of an agricultural household has increased to Rs 10,218 from Rs 6,426, this increase is largely due to increase in wages and income from farming animals.
- The target for forest cover is to increase it to 33.3 per cent of the geographical area, as envisaged in the National Forest Policy, 1988. By 2019, 21.67 per cent of India was under forest cover.
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