There is good news on the climate change front. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affair has cleared the national mission for green India. It is one of the eight national missions approved by the government several years ago. Yet, there has been no progress for want of adequate financial backing. Even the clearance does not amount to much as the Centre is committed to pay only a certain percentage of the expenditure, the rest having to come from states. If experience is any guide, whenever a project is funded jointly by the Centre and the states, it faces a lot of uncertainty. Ideally, the Centre should have been ready to meet the full expenditure.

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