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A PIB Backgrounder traces how removing bamboo from the legal definition of 'tree' in 2017 opened bamboo cultivation, harvesting and transport to farmers and enterprises.
The National Bamboo Mission, NECTAR's bamboo technologies and SHG-led enterprises under DAY-NRLM are expanding the value chain, especially in the Northeast.
NECTAR interventions generate about 30 million person-days of work a year and have raised value addition on bamboo from 10% to as much as 70%.
Engineered bamboo has entered construction: over 42 lakh sq ft of disaster-relief structures, and 576 school rooms in Chhattisgarh.
Defines 'tree'. Before 2017 the definition included bamboos, bringing them under the Act's felling and transit controls.
Promulgated on 23 November 2017 to omit 'bamboos' from the definition of tree.
Replaced the ordinance: passed by Lok Sabha on 20 December and Rajya Sabha on 27 December 2017. The exemption covers bamboo grown on NON-forest land; bamboo in forests stays regulated.
Develop the full bamboo value chain and link growers to industry
Key: Began in 2006-07 as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme; merged into MIDH in 2014-15; restructured NBM launched in 2018-19 (Rs 1,290 crore for 2018-20). Supports planting on non-forest land, nurseries, treatment, processing and markets. Funding ratio: 60:40 generally, 90:10 for NE and hilly states, 100% for UTs.
Organise rural poor women into SHGs for livelihoods
Key: Ministry of Rural Development; restructured from the Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana; renamed Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-NRLM from 29 March 2016. It runs the SARAS Aajeevika Mela, a sales fair for SHG products.
Help SHG women reach a sustainable annual household income of Rs 1 lakh or more
Key: Income counted as an average of Rs 10,000+ a month sustained over four agricultural seasons or business cycles. The original 3 crore target (due March 2027) was met early; in 2026 it was doubled to 6 crore by March 2029.
Cluster development for traditional artisans, including bamboo crafts
Key: Ministry of MSME, launched 2005; revised guidelines in 2020 merged in other khadi and village-industry schemes.
National trade showcase
Key: Organised by ITPO (Ministry of Commerce and Industry) at Bharat Mandapam; 44th edition, 14-27 November 2025.
Autonomous society under the Department of Science and Technology, formed in 2012 by merging the National Mission on Bamboo Applications and the Mission on Geospatial Applications; brings frontier technology to the Northeast
CSIR laboratory for environmental science, set up in 1958. In June 2026 it trained women SHGs in handicrafts made from bamboo grown on fly ash dumps.
A composite made by binding and compressing bamboo fibres, strips or particles into uniform boards and beams. That makes a variable natural stem usable as a standard building material.
GS Paper 3 > Economy > Agriculture, Forest Produce and Rural Livelihoods
General Awareness > Government Schemes
Consider the following statements: 1. As per recent amendment to the Indian Forest Act, 1927, forest dwellers have the right to fell the bamboos grown on forest areas. 2. As per the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, bamboo is a minor forest produce. 3. The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 allows ownership of minor forest produce to forest dwellers. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Answer: 2 and 3 only
Definition of 'tree'; bamboos were omitted from it in 2017
DST autonomous body in Shillong, formed in 2012 from the National Mission on Bamboo Applications and the Mission on Geospatial Applications
The grass family, to which bamboo belongs