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NREGA / Right to Work | NREGA: A pathway to climate resilience -Manu Moudgil

NREGA: A pathway to climate resilience -Manu Moudgil

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published Published on Nov 3, 2021   modified Modified on Nov 5, 2021

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Natural resource management activities under NREGA have the potential to help India increase carbon sequestration and combat climate change.

The world’s largest anti-poverty programme may also help India achieve its target of creating an additional carbon sink of 2.5-3 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalent, through additional forest and tree cover, by 2030, in line with the Paris Agreement on climate change.

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) captured 102 million tonnes carbon dioxide (MtCO2) in 2017-18 through plantations and soil quality improvement, found a recent study by researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru. The scheme’s capacity to sequester carbon dioxide may rise to 249 MtCO2 by 2030.

The researchers calculated carbon sequestration by assessing biomass in plantations and carbon stored in the soil of work sites in 158 villages spanning 18 agro-ecological zones of India to arrive at the conclusion. Eighteen agroecological zones, excluding Western Himalayas, Ladakh Plateau and north Kashmir, Andaman and Nicobar and Lakshadweep islands, were selected.

MGNREGS has been offering unskilled manual work to rural households in India since 2006 and turning out to be a major source of relief in times of distress like droughts. It gained more importance last year when millions of workers were forced to leave cities for their native villages after the Indian government imposed a complete lockdown in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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This article was originally published on Mongabay-India.


IDROnline.org, 3 November, 2021, https://idronline.org/article/environment/nrega-a-pathway-to-climate-resilience/?fbclid=IwAR2YlQEd8lxWONxlPTF0zhOrjenfqqmYOAmiXAXiRGGH5wEuR_xd3Ii6TGM


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