Centre releases Desertification and Land Degradation Atlas of India

Ministry of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change released Desertification and Land Degradation Atlas of India.

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021

It has been published by Space Application Centre, ISRO, Ahmedabad. The Atlas provides state wise area of degraded lands for the time frame 2018-19. It also provides the change analysis for the duration of 15 years, from 2003-05 to 2018-19.

The Desertification and Drought day was commemorated by the Ministry, with an aim to generate large scale awareness towards understanding the key role of land in all environmental and economic concerns that world, as well as India is facing now-a days.

India has been at the forefront of bringing the issue of land degradation to the core of relevant international alliances for protection and conservation of environment.

The government of India has adopted collective approach for making progress towards achieving the national commitments related to land restoration.