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Missions Major objective/Target Progress
7. National Mission • To continuously assess the health • The key achievements include setting
for Sustaining status of the Himalayan Ecosystem. up of the Centre of Glaciology at Wadia
Himalayan Eco- Enable policy bodies in their policy Institute of Himalayan Geology.
systems formulation functions. • A national network programme on
• Start of new centres relevant to cli- Himalayan Cryosphere has been
mate change in the existing institu- launched.
tions in the Himalayan States. • A mega programme named Human
• Regional cooperation with neigh- and Institutional Capacity Building
bouring countries in Glaciology. (HICAB) programme for the Indi-
an Himalayan Region was launched
during the 2018-19 and six state lev-
el knowledge networks have been
supported in the states of Jammu &
Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Assam,
Meghalaya, Manipur and Arunachal
Pradesh in the Himalayan Region. Un-
der this programme, 18 projects and 7
Major R&D programmes are getting
implemented.
• In addition, three Centres of Excellence,
one each at Kashmir University, Sikkim
University and Tezpur University have
been supported under the mission.
8. National Mission • To gain a better understanding • Key achievements include setting up
on Strategic of climate science, formation of of 12 Centres of Excellence and 10
Knowledge for knowledge networks among the State Climate Change Centres.
Climate Change existing knowledge institutions • 8 Global Technology Watch Groups
(NMSKCC) engaged in research and (GTWGs) in the areas of Renewable
development.
Energy Technology, Advance Coal
Technology, Enhanced Energy
• Development of national capacity Efficiency, Green Forest, Sustainable
for modeling the regional impact Habitat, Water, Sustainable
of climate change on different Agriculture and Manufacturing have
ecological zones within the country. been set up.

Source: MoEFCC

6.13 The Government launched the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) in 2010
with the aim to (i) deploy 20,000 MW of grid connected solar power by 2022 to be achieved in
3 phases, (ii) 2,000 MW of off-grid solar applications including 20 million solar lights by 2022
and (iii) 20 million sq. m. solar thermal collector area. The above targets are divided phase wise
as presented in Table 2 below: