Context: Union Minister marked the completion of five years of the “One Plant Per Day” resolution, transforming a personal environmental pledge into a proposed nationwide green movement.
About One Plant Per Day resolution:
What it is?
- The One Plant Per Day Resolution is an environmental initiative launched by Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan in 2021, under which he pledged to plant at least one sapling daily.
- The initiative promotes individual and community participation in afforestation and aims to convert personal environmental responsibility into a large-scale mass movement.
Organisation: Led by the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare and Ministry of Rural Development.
Key Features:
- Daily Plantation Commitment: A continuous pledge to plant one tree every day, promoting long-term environmental responsibility.
- Institutional Integration: All official programmes under agriculture-related institutions to begin with tree plantation activities.
- Digital Participation Model: Platforms like Ankur and the proposed Tree Bank enable citizens to plant or sponsor trees and track them digitally.
Significance:
- Mass Environmental Awareness: Converts individual action into collective climate consciousness and public participation.
- Afforestation & Ecological Restoration: Helps improve green cover, biodiversity conservation, and climate resilience.
- Behavioural Change Model: Encourages sustainable social traditions such as gifting trees instead of mementos, promoting eco-friendly practices.
Relevance in UPSC Exam Syllabus
- GS Paper III – Environment & Ecology
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- Afforestation, climate change mitigation, and community-based conservation initiatives.
- Sustainable development and ecosystem restoration.
- GS Paper II – Governance
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- Public participation in policy implementation.
- Government-led environmental campaigns and behavioural change strategies.
