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Centre to start measuring ‘green GDP’ of States
News:
- Central government for the first time calls for a national environment survey to measure green GDP of state.
Important Facts:
- The government will start a five-year exercise to compute district-level data of the country’s environmental wealth.
- The data will be used to calculate ‘green’ Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of every states.
4.The data required for the inventory would be sourced from data-sets that already exist with other government ministries.
- The project will begin from September in 54 districts.
- Under the project, Land will be demarcated into “grids” with about 15-20 grids per district
- The grids will capture the key feature which will be used to compute the value these include:
- Diversity of State geography
- Farmland
- Wildlife
- Emissions pattern
- The data obtained will help government to understand policy decisions such as:
- Compensation to be paid during land acquisition
- Calculation of funds required for climate mitigation
- The government has also launched a ‘green skilling’ programme under which youth, particularly school dropouts, would be trained in a range of ‘green jobs.
