SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 12 September 2025, Shift 3 · General Awareness · Question 24 of 100

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Consider the following statements about the MISHTI Scheme: 1. It aims at mangrove plantation using scientific methods. 2. It was announced under Budget 2023-24. 3. It includes commercial leasing of mangrove forests.

(a)Only 1 and 2 are correct
(b)Only 2 and 3 are correct
(c)Only 1 and 3 are correct
(d)All 1, 2 and 3 are correct

Answer

Why

Correct — A. Statements 1 and 2 are true. MISHTI (Mangrove Initiative for Shoreline Habitats & Tangible Incomes) is a mangrove plantation and restoration programme, and it was announced in the Union Budget 2023-24.

Statement 3 is false. MISHTI is described as restoration and reforestation of about 540 sq km of mangroves; leasing mangrove forests commercially is no part of it. That leaves 1 and 2 only.

Why the others are wrong

(b)
Only 2 and 3 are correct — Keeps the false statement 3 and drops statement 1. Mangrove plantation is MISHTI's core aim, and commercial leasing of mangrove forests is not part of the programme.
(c)
Only 1 and 3 are correct — Drops statement 2, though MISHTI was announced in the Union Budget 2023-24, and keeps the false statement 3 on commercial leasing.
(d)
All 1, 2 and 3 are correct — Statement 3 breaks it. MISHTI plants and restores mangroves; commercial leasing of mangrove forests is not part of the programme, so all three cannot be correct.

Concept

MISHTI was announced in the Union Budget 2023-24 and launched by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change on World Environment Day, 5 June 2023.

It envisages restoring and reforesting about 540 sq km of mangroves across 9 States and 3 Union Territories over five years from 2023-24. States are encouraged to fund the work through convergence with existing schemes.

Keep the two dates apart: the Budget announced MISHTI on 1 February 2023, and the Environment Ministry launched it on 5 June 2023.

Key facts

MISHTI stands for Mangrove Initiative for Shoreline Habitats & Tangible Incomes.
MISHTI was announced in the Union Budget 2023-24 and launched by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change on 5 June 2023.
MISHTI envisages restoring about 540 sq km of mangroves across 9 States and 3 Union Territories over five years from 2023-24.

Study next

Maharashtra's Mangrove Cell and state-level mangrove protectionCAMPA, the Compensatory Afforestation FundMangrove cover in the India State of Forest Report

Common traps

Crediting MISHTI to the Ministry of Rural Development — the Environment Ministry launched it.
Treating the launch date, 5 June 2023, as the announcement — the Budget announced it in February 2023.

MISHTI is asked again at 14 Sep 2025, 12:30, GA Q.23, which tests its ministry and its CAMPA and MGNREGS funding. This paper's GA Q.22 asks about Maharashtra's Mangrove Cell.

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