: MGNREGS: India’s rural job scheme can help it get closer to its climate goals #IndiaNEWS The world’s largest anti-poverty programme may also help India achieve its target of creating an additional

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MGNREGS: India’s rural job scheme can help it get closer to its climate goals #IndiaNEWS
The world’s largest anti-poverty programme may also help India achieve its target of creating an additional carbon sink of 2.5 billion tonnes to 3 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalent, through additional forest and tree cover, by 2030, in line with the Paris Agreement on climate change.The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme captured 102 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2017-’18 through plantations and soil quality improvement, found a recent study by researchers at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. The scheme’s capacity to sequester carbon dioxide may rise to 249 million tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2030.The researchers calculated carbon sequestration by assessing biomass in plantations and carbon stored in the soil of work sites in 158 villages spanning 18 agro-ecological zones of India to arrive at the conclusion. Eighteen agroecological zones, excluding Western Himalayas, Ladakh Plateau and north Kashmir, Andaman and Nicobar and Lakshadweep islands, were selected.MGNREGS has been offering unskilled manual work to rural households in India since 2006 and turning out to be a major source of relief in times of distress like droughts. It gained more importance last year when millions of workers were forced to leave cities for their native villages after the Indian government imposed a complete...Read more

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