Nagar Van Yojana (NVY)
Updated: 25 Oct 2025
Ministry:
Ministry of Environment, Forest And Climate Change
Beneficiary:
Miscellaneous
Overview
The Van Udyan scheme, launched on World Environment Day 2020, aims to develop 400 Nagar Vans and 200 Nagar Vatikas by 2024-25. It seeks to enhance urban green cover, biodiversity, and ecological benefits while improving quality of life, fully funded under CAMPA.
- It was launched in 2020, on World Environment Day (5th June).
- It envisages developing 400 Nagar Vans and 200 Nagar Vatikas in the country during the period of 2020-21 to 2024-25.
- Objective: To significantly enhance the tree outside forests and green cover, enhancement of biodiversity and ecological benefits to the urban and peri-urban areas apart from improving quality of life of city dwellers.
- Under the scheme
- These forests will come up either on existing forest land or on any other vacant land offered by urban local bodies.
- Van Udyan once established will be maintained by the State Government.
- The scheme is fully funded under CAMPA (Compensatory Afforestation Fund Act, 2016) funds.