👉Mangrove Initiative for Shoreline Habitats & Tangible Incomes’, MISHTI, will be taken up for mangrove plantation along the coastline and on salt pan lands.
👉The Mangroves cover 0.15% of the total Indian Geographical area.
👉This is around 4,975 square kilometers.
👉The state of West Bengal alone has 42.45% of India’s mangroves.
👉 Indian mangroves are facing limitations such as an increase in salinity, lack of oxygen, and diurnal tidal inundations.
👉The main aim of the scheme is to take up mangrove plantations along the coastline and to preserve Mangrove forests
👉Mangrove forests are spread across AP, WB, Odisha, Andaman and Nicobar, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu.
👉MISHTI is to be implemented by converging CAMPA Fund, MGNREGS, and other sources.
