‘Green Skilling’ Programme and ‘GREEN’ GDP

In the news (TH): 

Starting this year (2018), the government will begin a five-year exercise to compute district-level data of the country’s environmental wealth. The numbers will eventually be used to calculate every State’s ‘green’ Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The metric will help with a range of policy decisions, such as compensation to be paid during land acquisition, calculation of funds required for climate mitigation, and so on.

‘green skilling’ programme:

The government has also launched a ‘green skilling’ programme (Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change) under which youth, particularly school dropouts, would be trained in a range of ‘green jobs’— as operators of scientific instruments used to measure environmental quality, as field staff in nature parks, and as tourist guides. Some of the labour required for the survey would also be sourced from the green-skilled workforce.

 

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