Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar announced that India has committed to rejuvenate 50 lakh hectares (5 million) of degraded land between 2021 and 2030.
About 29% (about 96.4 million hectares) are considered degraded in India.
In January 2019, India became part of the “Bonn Challenge”.
Bonn Challenge is a global effort to bring 150 million hectares of the world’s deforested and degraded land into restoration by 2020, and 350 million hectares by 2030.