CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The correct answer is Maharashtra Govt. Maharashtra government to launch ‘My Plant’ mobile app on tree plantation.

Detailed explanation-2: -The overall objective of the National Afforestation Programme (NAP) scheme is ecological restoration of degraded forests and to develop the forest resources with peoples’ participation, with focus on improvement in livelihoods of the forest-fringe communities, especially the poor.

Detailed explanation-3: -Speaking on the occasion, Shri Amit Shah said the tree saplings plantation program is small in scale but its impact and magnitude are so wide that it provides healthy and long life to many generations to come.

Detailed explanation-4: -Farmers are provided seedilings of the trees in government nursery at the rate of Rs 10 / seedling. If farmers maintain 50 percent of the plants purchased from the forest department in their lands for 3 years, then for this, the farmers will be given an incentive of Rs 60 per plant.

Detailed explanation-5: -SankalpTaru Foundation, as the names suggests, is an e-NGO or an IT enabled NGO, as you may call it, active across 18 Indian cities with its pledge to plant trees for the people, by the people.