State Profile of Haryana

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    Location of Haryana in India

    Geographic Area and Land Use

    * The reporting area for land utilization in Haryana is 4.37 Mha.
    Source: India State of Forest Report 2017

  • Forest Protection and Landscape Restoration Potential

    Total area available for restoration: 1.08 Mha






    Carbon Sequestration Potential

    Haryana has the potential to sequester between 17.13 to 33.96 million tons (MT) of additional above-ground carbon through the improvement of tree cover. The chart and map represents potential for increase in above-ground carbon sequestration where maximum tree cover in cultivated areas is capped at 20%.

  • Past and Ongoing Initiatives

    The study on past and on-going initiatives found that Haryana has four projects that involve at least four types of interventions.


    These interventions cover 81136 hectares and have been implemented by government agencies, the private sector as well civil society organisations.



    Financial Flows

    Between 2011-16, INR 68,933.6 crore was allocated to Haryana under different programs and schemes, for improvements in forest and tree cover.


    In 2018, Haryana’s share of the Compensatory Afforestation Fund, which was created to compensate the ecosystems services lost as a result of forest land diversion, was INR 1,632.17 crore.

    Tenure and Resource Rights

    No data available for the number of districts in Bihar partially covered under the Panchayat (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act of 1996. Joint Forest Management Committees covering 66,036 households are present in 26% of the state. The potential for recognition of Community Forest Resources Rights (CFRs) under the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 is 0.02 Mha.

    Risks to Improvement in Forest and Tree Cover

    There are four major risks that can adversely impact improvements in forest and tree cover in Haryana:


    1. • Between 2011-2017, Haryana recorded 291 incidents of fires.
    2. • Between 2011-2017, Haryana diverted nearly 13,745.04 hectares of forest land. This is nearly 9 % of Haryana’s total forest area.
    3. • According to the Land Conflict Watch, 1 conflict between state agencies and communities was reported in Haryana. The conflict is related to tenure and resource rights (1).
    4. • Biotic pressure including open grazing and collection of fuel-wood.

  • Disclaimer: Maps in the page are not to scale