- National Solar Mission
- The ultimate objective is to make solar energy competitive with fossil-based energy options. By increasing the share of solar energy in the total energy mix, it aims to empower people at the grass roots level.
- Another aspect of this Mission is to launch an R&D program facilitating international co-operation to enable the creation of affordable, more convenient solar energy systems and to promote innovations for sustained, long-term storage and use of solar power.
- Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
- National Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency
- The Energy Conservation Act of 2001 provides a legal mandate for the implementation of energy efficiency measures through the mechanisms of The Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) in the designated agencies in the country.
- A number of schemes and programs have been initiated which aim to save about 10,000 MW by the end of the 11th Five-Year Plan in 2012.
- Ministry of Power
- National Mission on Sustainable Habitat
- This Mission was launched to make habitats sustainable through improvements in energy efficiency in buildings, management of solid waste and a modal shift to public transport.
- It aims to promote energy efficiency as an integral component of urban planning and urban renewal through its initiatives.
- Ministry of Urban Development
- National Water Mission
- By 2050, India is likely to be water scarce. Thus, the Mission aims at conserving water, minimizing wastage, and ensuring more equitable distribution and management of water resources.
- It also aims to optimize water use efficiency by 20% by developing a framework of regulatory mechanisms.
- It calls for strategies to accommodate fluctuations in rainfall and river flows by enhancing water storage methods, rain water harvesting and more efficient irrigation systems like drip irrigation.
- Ministry of Water Resources
- National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem
- The Himalayan eco-system is vital to preserving the ecological security of India. Increases in temperatures, changes in precipitation patterns, drought and melting of glaciers are obvious threats.
- The Mission calls for empowering local communities especially Panchayats to play a greater role in managing ecological resources.
- It also reaffirms the measures mentioned in the National Environment Policy, 2006.
- Ministry of Science and Technology
- National Mission for a Green India
- The Mission aims at enhancing ecosystem services such as carbon sinks.
- It builds on the Prime Minister’s Green India Campaign for afforestation and increasing land area under forest cover from 23% to 33%.
- It is to be implemented through Joint Forest Management Committees under the respective State Departments of Forests.
- It also strives to effectively implement the Protected Area System under the National Biodiversity Conservation Act, 2001.
- Ministry of Environment and Forests
- National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture
- The Mission aims to make Indian agriculture more resilient to climate change by identifying new varieties of crops (example: thermally resistant crops) and alternative cropping patterns.
- This is to be supported by a comprehensive network of traditional knowledge, practical systems, information technology and biotechnology.
- It makes suggestions for safeguarding farmers from climate change like introducing new credit and insurance mechanisms and greater access to information.
- Ministry of Agriculture
- National Mission on Strategic Knowledge on Climate Change
- The aim is to work with the global community in research and technology development by collaboration through different mechanisms.
- It also has its own research agenda supported by climate change related institutions and a Climate Research Fund.
- It also encourages initiatives from the private sector for developing innovative technologies for mitigation and adaptation.
- Ministry of Science and Technology
- A Ninth Mission – Government to Prepare a National Bio-energy Mission
- The mission, to be launched during the 12th Five-Year Plan, will offer a policy and regulatory environment to facilitate large-scale capital investments in biomass-fired power stations, Minister of New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah said.
- It will also encourage development of rural enterprises.
- Ministry of New and Renewable Energy – Related Press Releases.