2. • Depletion of water resources, unscientific methods of solid waste management, air
pollution, dumping garbage and chemical effluence in the water bodies, loss of grass
cover, abuse of agricultural land and deforestation are some of the threats the State is
confronting with.
• With a far-sighted vision to bestow an eco-friendly land with its greenery and serenity to
the posterity, the Government of Kerala has envisioned a people-centric endeavor
named Mission Haritha Keralam, a mission under the umbrella mission named Nava
Kerala Mission.
• Mission Haritha Kerala aims to promote eco-friendly environment sustainable
development of natural resources, effective solid waste management, rejuvenation of the
water reserves, sanitation and social hygiene, promotion of organic cultivation, zero
pesticide food products, healthy foods, propagation of herbicides and Organic farming,
protection of biodiversity and so on.
• Environmental sustainability is framed with a biocentric approach which places humans
within the greater context of their natural environment.
WHY HARITHA KERALAM?
3. Haritha Keralam is an umbrella Mission
integrating the components of Waste
Management, Organic Farming, Water
Resources Management, protection of
biodiversity. It has an ambitious outlook to
address the issues of piling waste, impending
drought and health hazards due to the
consumption of pesticide-treated vegetables
and in general, the agricultural dependency
of the State.
HARITHA KERALAM
MISSION
5. PACHATHURUTH
(GREEN SPOTS
SCHEME)
‘Pachathuruthu’ (green spot) scheme, the ambitious
project of Haritha Keralam Mission aims at promoting
green spaces in the state to effectively combat climate
change. The mission of this scheme is to develop 1000
green spots in the state.
In 2020, Thiruvananthapuram was set out to be the
first Pachathuruth district with 153 green spots.
6. Thank you!
“It is our collective and
individual
responsibility…to preserve
and tend to the world in
which we all live.”
-Dalai Lama.
