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National biodiversity target
Measures taken: policies and initiatives
8.By 2020, ecosystem services especially those relating to water, human
health, livelihoods and well-being, are enumerated and measures to
safeguard them are identified taking into account the needs of women and
local communities particularly the poor and vulnerable
Major Livelihoods Programs:
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural
Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), Deendayal Antyodaya
Yojana—National Rural Livelihoods Mission
Urban Green Spaces: Nagar Van Udyan Yojana,
Smart City Initiative
Promotion of Green Energy:
National Solar Mission, Deendayal
Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana,
SAUBHAGYA—Pradhan Mantri Sahaj
Bijli Har Ghar Yojana
to achieve universal household electrification by
March 2019, Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation
(AMRUT), Energy Conservation Act 2001
Road Connectivity: Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana
Education:
The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act,
2009, National Policy on Education 1986
Health Services: National Health Mission (NHM)
National Rural Health
Mission (NRHM), National Urban Health Mission (NUHM), National
Disease Control Programmes, National Tobacco Control Programme
(NTCP), National Programme for Health Care of Elderly and National
Programme for Prevention and Control of Fluorosis, National Iodine
Deficiency Control Programme, Mid-Day Meal Programme, ICDS, Pradhan
Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana
(PMSSY)
Special Focus on Women: Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakaram
(JSSK),
Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram, Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram
Drinking Water:
National Rural Drinking Water Programme
9. By 2015, access to Genetic Resources (GRs) and the Fair and Equitable
Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization as per the Nagoya
Protocol are operational, consistent with national legislation
Guidelines on Access to Biological Resources and Associated Knowledge
and Benefit Sharing Regulations, (Guidelines 2014), Biological Diversity
Act, 2002 and Biological Diversity Rules, 2004, Protection of Plant Variety
and Farmers’ Rights Act, 2001, The Patents Act, 1970
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Table 1
(continued)
National biodiversity target
Measures taken: policies and initiatives
8.By 2020, ecosystem services especially those relating to water, human
health, livelihoods and well-being, are enumerated and measures to
safeguard them are identified taking into account the needs of women and
local communities particularly the poor and vulnerable
Major Livelihoods Programs:
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural
Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), Deendayal Antyodaya
Yojana—National Rural Livelihoods Mission
Urban Green Spaces: Nagar Van Udyan Yojana,
Smart City Initiative
Promotion of Green Energy:
National Solar Mission, Deendayal
Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana,
SAUBHAGYA—Pradhan Mantri Sahaj
Bijli Har Ghar Yojana
to achieve universal household electrification by
March 2019, Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation
(AMRUT), Energy Conservation Act 2001
Road Connectivity: Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana
Education:
The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act,
2009, National Policy on Education 1986
Health Services: National Health Mission (NHM)
National Rural Health
Mission (NRHM), National Urban Health Mission (NUHM), National
Disease Control Programmes, National Tobacco Control Programme
(NTCP), National Programme for Health Care of Elderly and National
Programme for Prevention and Control of Fluorosis, National Iodine
Deficiency Control Programme, Mid-Day Meal Programme, ICDS, Pradhan
Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana
(PMSSY)
Special Focus on Women: Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakaram
(JSSK),
Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram, Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram
Drinking Water:
National Rural Drinking Water Programme
9. By 2015, access to Genetic Resources (GRs) and the Fair and Equitable
Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization as per the Nagoya
Protocol are operational, consistent with national legislation
Guidelines on Access to Biological Resources and Associated Knowledge
and Benefit Sharing Regulations, (Guidelines 2014), Biological Diversity
Act, 2002 and Biological Diversity Rules, 2004, Protection of Plant Variety
and Farmers’ Rights Act, 2001, The Patents Act, 1970
(continued)