Recently, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has released Desertification and Land Degradation Atlas of India. 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.
Challenges
Area under Degradation
Government’s Commitment
Government Action
The following plans/programmes have been launched by the government to meet the issue of land degradation: