Green brigades, consisting of members of youth clubs, were drivers of the Green Bodoland mission. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
Guwahati
Youth brigades across the Assam Bodoland territorial region (BTR) are on the mission “to get back the climate”.
According to India State of Forest Report 2023, the northeast region, including eight states, lost a forest cover over more than 3,000 km 2 between 2013 and 2023. The affected areas included BTR, which represents 3.4% of the mainland in the region.
In June 2024, this trend and authorities tried to reverse the Territorial Council of the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) launched the Green Bodoland mission in June 2024 and entrusted a large part of the task of re -improvement of urban spaces and worsen the forests of 176 youth clubs in BTR.
“To promote plant survival through improved plant health management, these clubs were given a motivation of 50,000 GBP on a member of the green brigade. The idea of this support was to support the continuing care of plantation by strengthening local ownership and ensuring active maintenance of postal plants,” said Mark Daimari, official official mission mission.
The green brigades currently have about 6,000 members.
In addition to youth clubs, schools, local councils and female teams were included in the mission for programs of awareness and training of trees care. This initiative brought results, with communities taking care of most of the targeted one crore seedlings of native wood, trees carrying fruit and medicinal and flowering plants per 2,000 hectares.
The mission is supported by a large budget assigned by the BTR LED Bor LED Bor during the fiscal year 2023-24, which also dealt with pollution of plastics and sustainable groundwater management.
Kribiční forests in Kokrhile
In order to emphasize its commitment, the BTR administration involved the youth in re -improvement of government premises in urban and semi -town environments.
The first native forests in northeastern India using the Miyawaki method were set up at two key points – the BTC Secretariat and the Medical College – in Kokrajhar, the BTR, about 220 km west of Guwahati.
These urban forests, which extend over 6,000 square meters, host 12,000 seedlings of 45 indigenous trees and shrubs.
The local ownership of the Green Bodoland mission is expected to bring short and long -term profits in the ecological eastern Himalayan foot. These include soil and slope stabilization, water safety, ground waters, biodiversity, balance between human acid, climate resistance and heat alleviation.
The mission is also aimed at promoting fruit, feed, wood and non -ferrous plant species, as well as to create the flow of income for small owners. Officials said that the support of the “tree economy” is the main part of the initiative.
Published – 13 September 2025 05:52 is
