Gujarat SAPCC

Gujarat
SAPCC: Draft Report
GUJARAT
Solar

STATE
ACTION PLAN
ON
CLIMATE CHANGE

GOVERNMENT OF GUJARAT

CLIMATE CHANGE
DEPARTMENT

Supported by
The Energy and Resources Institute

New Delhi
&
GIZ
2014
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Gujarat SAPCC: Draft Report
Contents
Section 1 Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 1
1.0 Introduction to Gujarat State Action Plan on Climate Change ............................................................. 3
1.1 Background ................................................................................................................................. 3
1.2 The State Action Plan on Climate Change .................................................................................... 5
2.0 Gujarat – An Overview ........................................................................................................................ 7
2.1Physiography and Climate ............................................................................................................ 7
2.2 Demography ................................................................................................................................ 8
2.3 Economic Growth and Development ........................................................................................... 9
2.4 Policies and Measures ............................................................................................................... 13
2.5 Institutions and Governance ..................................................................................................... 16
2.6 In Summary ............................................................................................................................... 18
Section 2 Climate Variability and Change ............................................................................................ 19
3.0 Climate Trends and Projections...................................................................................................... 21
3.1 Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 21
3.2 Observed climate trends over Indian region .............................................................................. 22
3.3 Observed trends over Gujarat State .......................................................................................... 23
3.4 Climate Change Projections ....................................................................................................... 26
3.5 Gaps to be addressed ................................................................................................................ 29
4.0 Climate Vulnerabilities and Impacts .................................................................................................. 30
4.1 Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 30
4.2 Vulnerability of Gujarat ............................................................................................................. 30
4.3 Agriculture ................................................................................................................................. 32
4.4 Water ........................................................................................................................................ 36
4.5 Health ........................................................................................................................................ 39
4.6 Forests and Biodiversity ............................................................................................................ 42
5.0Sources of Green House Gas Emissions .............................................................................................. 47
5. 1 Energy ...................................................................................................................................... 49
5.2 Industry ..................................................................................................................................... 56
5.3 Transport ................................................................................................................................... 61
5.4 Agriculture ................................................................................................................................. 66
5.5 Forestry ..................................................................................................................................... 68
5.6 Urban Development .................................................................................................................. 69
5.7 Waste ........................................................................................................................................ 74
Section 3 Strategies for the State Action Plan on Climate Change....................................................... 75
6.0 Strategies for the State Action Plan on Climate Change ................................................................... 77
6.1 Gaps in scientific research studies ............................................................................................. 77
6.2 Approach of the action plan ...................................................................................................... 78
Sectoral Themes ...................................................................................................................................... 80
7.0 Agriculture ........................................................................................................................................ 80
7.1 Strategies for Sustainable Agriculture ........................................................................................ 80
7.2 State initiatives and achievements ............................................................................................ 81
7.3 Ongoing initiatives ..................................................................................................................... 83
7.4 Key Strategies ............................................................................................................................ 86
8.0 Water Resources ............................................................................................................................... 93
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8.1 Strategies for management of water resources ......................................................................... 93
8.2 States initiatives and achievements ........................................................................................... 93
8.3 Innovative climate change projects ........................................................................................... 98
8.4 Community participation & empowerment of Panchayat Raj Institutions by WASMO ............ 101
8.5 Key initiatives by the Government of Gujarat .......................................................................... 102
8.6 Key Strategies .......................................................................................................................... 103
9.0 Forests and Biodiversity .................................................................................................................. 108
9.1 Strategies for conservation of forests and biodiversity ............................................................ 108
9.2 States Initiatives and Achievements ........................................................................................ 108
9.3 Key Strategies .......................................................................................................................... 112
10.0 Health ........................................................................................................................................... 119
10.1 Strategies for health .............................................................................................................. 119
10.2 Government Initiatives .......................................................................................................... 119
10.3 Key Strategies ........................................................................................................................ 120
11.0 Urban Development ...................................................................................................................... 125
11.1 Strategies for Urban Development ........................................................................................ 125
11.2 State Initiatives and Achievements ........................................................................................ 126
11.3 Key Strategies ........................................................................................................................ 128
11.4 Waste management .............................................................................................................. 129
11.5 Water/wastewater management .......................................................................................... 132
11.6 Urban transport system ......................................................................................................... 135
11.7 Land use ................................................................................................................................ 137
Cross‐Sectoral Themes .......................................................................................................................... 142
12.0 Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency ...................................................................................... 142
12.1 Strategies for renewable energy and energy efficiency ......................................................... 142
12.2 Renewable energy initiatives ................................................................................................. 144
12.6 Energy efficiency initiatives ................................................................................................... 148
12.7 Key Strategies ........................................................................................................................ 149
13.0 Vulnerable Communities ............................................................................................................... 168
13.1 Strategies for empowerment of vulnerable communities ...................................................... 168
13.2 State Initiatives and Achievements ........................................................................................ 171
13.3 Key Strategies ........................................................................................................................ 176
14.0Sea Level Rise and Coastal Infrastructure ....................................................................................... 178
14.1 Strategies for Sea Level Rise and Coastal Infrastructure ........................................................ 178
15.0 Green Jobs ..................................................................................................................................... 182
15.1 Strategies for Creation of Green Jobs .................................................................................... 182
16.0 Enablers ........................................................................................................................................ 185
16.1 Generating knowledge, building capacity and public awareness ........................................... 185
16.2 Strategies for the transfer of knowledge ............................................................................... 187
16.3 Initiatives for communication and change ............................................................................. 189
16.4 People’sparticipation ............................................................................................................. 190
16.5 Proactive role for NGO and Private Sector ............................................................................. 193
16.6 Innovating Grassroots level Action ........................................................................................ 194
Section 4 The Way Forward .............................................................................................................. 197
17.0 Further Course of Action................................................................................................................ 199
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17.1Institutionalarrangement ....................................................................................................... 199
17.2Implementation Plan .............................................................................................................. 202
The Way Forward.................................................................................................................................. 205
References ............................................................................................................................................ 207
Abbreviations ........................................................................................................................................ 217
List of Project Proposals ............................................................................................................ 221
List of Tables ............................................................................................................................... 221
List of Figures ............................................................................................................................. 221
List of Boxes ................................................................................................................................ 223
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Section 1
Introduction
Gujarat is recognized for the pace of its economic growth. Although

primarily an industrial economy, large sections of population are
dependent on climate sensitive sectors such as agriculture. Its long
coastline supports large section of poor vulnerable populations. These
factors contribute to Gujarat’s vulnerability to impacts of Climate Change.
The Government of Gujarat is committed to building a sustainable and

climate resilient future for its people. Gujarat has already demonstrated its
leadership through a range of policies and that have the potential to
counter some of the challenges of Climate Change. The State Action Plan
on Climate Change (SAPCC) has been prepared following a consultative
process and aims to ensuring success of these measures and realization
of the ‘ambitious and progressive’ vision for development.
This section provides a brief introduction to preparation of SAPCC in the

given socio-economic context of Gujarat.
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1.0 Introduction to Gujarat State Action Plan on

Climate Change
1.1 Background
Gujarat stands out, amongst all the Indian states, for its economic growth. With only
five per cent of the country’s population and six per cent of the country’s geographical
area, Gujarat contributes to about 16 per cent of industrial and 12 per cent of
agricultural production in India, and is dominant in the manufacturing and infrastructure
sectors. However, in the backdrop of mounting global concern regarding potential risks
of future Climate Change, there is a need to ensure that Gujarat’s economic
performance and social progress stays resilient and capable of withstanding climatic
stress and shocks. The complexity of the climate-economy relationship has been made
apparent by various studies and the Government of Gujarat recognizes that Climate
Change is not only an environmental concern; it has profound implications for
economic growth, social advancement, and almost all other aspects of human well-
being. Accordingly, the Government of Gujarat initiated a number of processes,
involving multiple stakeholders at multiple levels, representative of all sections of
society, to cooperate and create a roadmap that leads to the realization of a growing,
low-emitting and sustainable economy with a more climate resilient population in
Gujarat.
In the year 2008, The Government of India released a National Action Plan on Climate
Change (NAPCC) setting eight priority missions-National Missions on Solar Energy,
Enhanced Energy Efficiency, Sustainable Habitats, Water, Sustaining the Himalayan
Ecosystem, Greening India, Sustainable Agriculture and Strategic Knowledge for
Climate Change-outlining a national strategy that aims to promote development
objectives while yielding co-benefits for addressing Climate Change effectively and
enhancing the ecological sustainability of India’s development path. For the realization
of these proposed actions at the sub national level, in August 2009, the Hon’ble Prime
Minister of India urged each State Government to create its own State level action plan
consistent with strategies in the National Plan.
As part of Gujarat’s proactive approach, in 2009, the Hon’ble Chief Minister declared
an in-principle decision of the Government to form a new Department of Climate
Change. The Gujarat Government’s Department for Climate Change was set up on 17th
September 2009 with a vision to act as a bridge within the Government, and between
the Government and society to address Climate Change. Gujarat is the first State in
India, the first in Asia and fourth in the world to form an independent Department for
Climate Change.
The Government of Gujarat is committed to building a sustainable and climate resilient

future for the people of Gujarat, at the highest level of administration. The former Chief
Minister of Gujarat and current Hon’ble Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi has
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authored “Convenient Action - Gujarat’s Response to Challenges of Climate Change”,a

publication outlining policy based answers to adaptation and mitigation.
Gujarat has already demonstrated its leadership through a range of policies and
programmes that have the potential to counter some of the challenges of Climate
Change while ensuring achievement of sustainable development objectives.
Opportunities for energy efficiency and improvements, in the industry, transportation
and households/services sectors, are being explored and harnessed by adopting
measures like energy efficiency audits, adopting clean fuels and introducing a Bus
Rapid Transport System, setting up integrated State-wide gas grids among others. In
the arena of renewables, Gujarat has introduced an ambitious Solar Power Policy in
2009 and Wind Power Policy in 2007. In addition a large number of initiatives such as
Smart Grid Project; establishment of a Solar Park and developing Gandhinagar as a
Solar City; andintroducing fiscal incentives for encouraging private investment in
renewables, are underway to tap the immense potential of renewables in Gujarat.
In addition, novel initiatives such as the “Green Credit Scheme”, social afforestation
and urban greening programmes, will help in planned expansion of forest and tree
cover besides ensuring sustained flow of ecosystem services including carbon
sinks. There are also on-going measures supporting sustainable agricultural practices
such as agro-meteorological field stations, automatic weather stations and Climate
Change research in State agriculture universities.
Numerous path breaking measures for water conservation and management, urban
development, disaster management and coastal area development will also help build
the adaptive capacity in the State. The inclusion of marginalized communities and
women are emphasized in the planning process.
These ongoing initiatives are largely in consonance with the directives of the National
Action Plan on Climate Change. To incorporate emerging concerns, in line with the
NAPCC,nine thematic groups representing key priorities of the State of Gujarat have
been identified.
These include:
1. Agriculture
2. Water
3. Health
4. Forests and Biodiversity
5. Sea-level rise and coastal infrastructure
6. Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
7. Urban Development
8. Vulnerable Communities
9. Green Jobs
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1.2 The State Action Plan on Climate Change
The Government commenced preparation of the State Action Plan on Climate Change
(SAPCC) in 2009, with the aim to create a more sustainable and climate resilient future
for people in the State. Adhering to the spirit of the NAPCC, the SAPCC intends
understanding and comprehending possible Climate Change impacts, and will prepare
strategies, with a long term vision, to convert challenges into opportunities.
Box 1: Vision of the Gujarat State Action Plan on Climate Change

To build a sustainable and climate resilient future for the people of Gujarat and
enabling a low carbon pathway for Gujarat’s economic growth that would meet
people’s aspirations with equity and inclusiveness.
For this purpose, it was proposed that nine thematic groups be formed, under the aegis
of Department of Climate Change with technical representatives from other State
Government Departments, reputed research institutes, international development
organizations and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). These thematic groups
have been identified for sector-wise assessment of overall policy and reflect SAPCC
priorities, for the next two plan periods. A high powered State Level Steering
Committee has also been set-up to oversee and approve the preparation and
implementation of the State Action Plan on Climate Change.
The development of the State Action Plan on Climate Change will help to prioritize
Climate Change concerns in the State’s planning process by means of the following
steps:
Mainstreaming action on Climate Change in Government Departments

Devising innovative and forward looking policies and their means of implementation
Generating comprehensive Climate Change consciousness among Policy Planners
Building wide ranging strategic knowledge partnerships
Ensuring broad based people’s participation
Institutionalizing capacity building at the State level
In 2008, the Government of Gujarat executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)

with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) for building capacity on Climate
Change planning for mitigation and adaptation. Consequently, an “Orientation
Programme on Climate Change” for senior ministers and civil servants of Gujarat was
organized by TERI.
The drafting of the Gujarat SAPCC has involved extensive consultations with experts,
practitioners and policy makers in order to understand expectations and aspirations,
and ensure relevance of identified strategies. A high powered State Level Steering
Committee has been set-up to oversee and approve the preparation of the State
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Action Plan on Climate Change (SAPCC). Figure 1 highlights the steps to the
preparation of Gujarat SAPCC.
Figure 1: Steps to the preparation of Gujarat SAPCC
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2.0 Gujarat – An Overview
2.1Physiography and Climate
The State of Gujarat lies on the western coast of India between 2006’ N and 240 42’ N
and 680 10’ E to 740 28’E. The length of Gujarat from north to south is approximately
590 km and width from east to west is approximately 500 km The State is spread
across an area of 196,024 sq km, which is just six per cent of the total geographical
area of India. And it has a longest
coastline (1,663 km) among Indian
Figure 2: Districts of Gujarat
states. The State is bound by Arabian
Sea on the west and south-west,
Rajasthan in the north and northeast,
Maharashtra in the south and south-
east and Madhya Pradesh in the east.
The State has an international boundary
with Pakistan in north-west. The Gulf of
Kutch and Gulf of Khambhat are
situated on the Arabian Sea. Three
perennial rivers - Narmada, Tapi and
Mahi are located in South Gujarat. The
major non-perennial river, Sabarmati
flows through the districts of
Sabarkantha, Mehsana and Ahmedabad.
Five types of landforms are found in Gujarat, namely alluvial plains, hilly areas,
highlands, desert areas and coastline areas. The alluvial plains extend from
Banaskantha in north Gujarat to Valsad in the south and westward to the little Rann
and Banni area of Kutch. Hilly tracts form a major divide in the State and most of the
rivers originate from the hills in the east and flow towards the south and southwest
except the Narmada and Tapi (interstate rivers). The Highland of Kutch (Saurashtra)
with an elevation of about 150 to 500 m. comprises of sedimentary and volcanic rocks.
Marshy and saline deserts of Rann of Kutch and little Rann of Kutch extend into the
saline tracts around the Gulf of Kutch. The coastal areas extend from Rann of Kutch
through the little Rann of Kutch and low lying delta region of Bhadar, Bhogavo,
Sabarmati, Mahi Dhadar, Narmada and Tapi rivers.
The State has 33 districts and Gandhinagar is the capital city. Ahmedabad, Vadodara,
Surat, Rajkot, Bhavnagar and Jamnagar are other key cities. The State falls in the sub-
tropical climate zone and experiences sub-humid climate in southern Gujarat (South of
River Narmada), moderately humid climate in central Gujarat (between Narmada and
Sabarmati rivers), humid and sultry climate in the coastal region (south facing coastal
region of Saurashtra), dry climate in regions of central Gujarat (north of Ahmedabad
and part of central Saurashtra) and arid and semi-arid climate in north Gujarat and
Kutch.
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The average temperature varies across the State. The summer temperature varies
between 250 C and 450 C while the winter temperature ranges between 150 C and 350C
degrees.
The average annual rainfall over the State varies widely from 300 mm in the Western
half of Kutch to 2,100 mm in the Southern part of Valsad district and the Dangs. The
monsoon usually commences by the middle of June and withdraws by the end of
September, with about 95 per cent of the total annual rainfall being received during
these months. The monsoon usually commences by the middle of June and withdraws
by the end of September, about 95 per cent of the total annual rainfall being received
during these months. The total number of rainy days varies from one part of the
State to another, ranging from a minimum of 16 days in Kutch to a maximum of 48
days in Surat and the Dangs. Generally, the number increases towards the eastern and
the southern parts of the State, and is higher in the months of July and August, as
compared to June and September.
2.2 Demography
Gujarat has a population of 60.38 million in 2011 (Census, 2011) showing a decadal
growth rate of 19.17 per cent as compared to the all India growth rate of 17.64 per
cent. The decadal growth rate for 2001-2011 has decreased by 3.49 per cent as
compared to the corresponding rate of growth during 1991- 2001. The sex ratio for the
State has marginally decreased from 920 in 2001 to 918 in yr 2011. The population
density of State has increased from 258 persons per sqkm in 2001 to 308 persons per
sqkm in 2011 (Census 2001, 2011). Surat district has recorded a highest density with
1,376 persons per sqkm while Kutch district has the lowest density of 46 persons per
sqkm The literacy rate in Gujarat has increased from 69.14 per cent in 2001 to 79.31
per cent 2011. The net increase in literacy is more in the female population (12.93
percentage points) than the male population (7.57 percentage points). Dahod district
has recorded a lowest literacy rate (45.15 per cent) while Ahmedabad has recorded the
highest (86.65 per cent). The overall literacy rate in the State has shown an upward
trend during the period 1951-2011.
Table 1: Key features of the State

Parameter Gujarat
Capital Gandhinagar
Districts 33
Talukas 248
Towns 348
Villages 18,225
Municipal corporations 8
Municipalities 159
Population 60,383,628
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Parameter Gujarat
Urban population 25,712,811
Rural population 34,670,817
Number of districts 33
Population density 308

Sex ratio 918
Literacy rate ( per cent), Male ( per cent), Female ( per cent) 79.31, 87.23, 70.73
Birth rates (per ‘000) 21.3
Death rates (per ‘000) 6.7
Infant mortality rate (per ‘000) 41
Source: DoES, 2008, Census of India 2011, GoG 2013
2.3 Economic Growth and Development

The Gross State Figure 3: Components of Gross State Domestic Product
Domestic Product
(GSDP) at
constant (2004-
05) prices, for
2011-12 has
been estimated
at Rs. 3,98,884
crore as against
Rs. 3,67,540
crore in 2010-11,
registering a
growth of 8.5
percent during
the year. Gross
State Domestic Product at factor cost at current price in 2011-12 has been estimated at
Rs. 6,11,767crore as against Rs. 5,30,430 crore in 2010- 11, registering a growth of
15.3 percent during the year.
The higher growth in the economy during the year 2011-12can be mainly attributed to
secondary (manufacturing), and tertiary sectors which have contributed 39.3 and 46.0
per cent growth during the year 2011-12 at constant (2004-05) prices (GoG, 2013).
The Per Capita Income (i.e. Per Capita NSDP) at factor cost at constant (2004-05)
prices has been estimated at Rs. 57,508 in 2011-12 as against Rs. 53,789 in 2010-11,
registering a growth of 6.9 percent during the year. The Per Capita Income at current
prices has been estimated at Rs. 89,668 in 2011-12 as against Rs. 78,802 in 2010-11,
showing an increase of 13.8 percent during the year (GoG, 2013)
The State of Gujarat is highly industrialized and one of the most economically
developed states in India. Since the inception of the State in 1960, the structure of its
economy has changed significantly. Not only have the State’s GSDP and per capita
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GSDP increased, but it has shown all signs of a developed and urbanized economy
and has maintained its high rank in key economic indicators among the Indian states.
Gujarat has excellent infrastructure as compared to the other Indian states. There are
42 ports, 13 domestic airports and one international airport. The State also has an
extensive road and rail network. The urban and rural areas have 24 hour power supply.
A 2,200 km gas-grid supplies gas to industrial areas. There are 83 product clusters,
202 industrial estates, 59 Special Economic Zones (SEZs) and upcoming infrastructure
on the Delhi-Mumbai Dedicated Freight Corridor (GOG, 2010b).
Table 2: GSDP by broad sectors - sectoral contribution (percentage)

S. No. Industry At Current Prices
1999-00 2007-08 2008-09 2011-12
1 Primary 18.62 19.85 17.76 21.8
1.1 Agriculture 14.54 15.95 14.10 18.3
2 Secondary 39.21 40.82 41.05 36.1
2.1 Manufacturing 30.75 31.62 31.08 26.7
3 Tertiary 42.17 39.33 41.19 42.1
Total GSDP 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
Source: GOG 2010b, GoG 2013
Robust financial growth and the presence of leading national and international
companies belonging to diverse industry sectors, makes it one of the most attractive
investment destinations in the country. Accounting for five per cent of the total Indian
population, Gujarat contributes 21 per cent to India’s exports and around 13per cent to
its industrial production. The industrial sector in the State had a 12.5 per cent growth in
2009 (RBI, 2007) According to the study on ‘Outlook for corporate investments’
conducted by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in 2007, Gujarat ranks first in private
corporate investments in the country. These investments can provide an avenue for
promotion of sustainable and green growth in the State.
The visionary approach of the Government of Gujarat has proved to be beneficial for
promoting investment and advancement of economic and social development.
Important events, such as the Vibrant Gujarat Summit, provide enormous opportunities
for the State to display its strengths, progressive stand and initiatives taken to improve
governance, among others. The summit was also an opportunity to attract climate
friendly investments in the State besides providing excellent networking opportunities
through business to business meeting arrangements, network dinners, buyer seller
meets, export pavilions and catalogue shows.
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Box 2:
Vibrant Gujarat Summit, 2011
• Participation from 101 Countries, with over 1400 foreign delegates
• About 7,936 memorandums of understanding (MoUs) were signed for Rs. 20,
83,000 Crores ($ 450 billion). 66 MOUs were signed in the energy sector with
emphasis on promotion of renewables.
• Around 100 tie-ups with leading institutions from across the globe for exchange
of knowledge were forged
Vibrant Gujarat Summit, 2013
• Participation from 121 Countries, with over 2100 foreign delegates
• 17,719 Investment Intentions were signed and 2,670 Strategic Partnerships were
signed in the areas of Technology transfer, R&D, Education, etc. during the
summit.
Effective governance enables Gujarat to be in a position to harness economic

opportunities, while aiming for a low carbon transition, to build a sustainable and
climate resilient future for the people of Gujarat.
2.3.1 Rapid urbanization
According to the Development Programme Report 2011-12 (GoG, 2012), urbanization

in Gujarat of about 40 per cent, is well above the national average. The heavy influx of
investments will generate more jobs, resulting in migration of people from other areas,
not only from Gujarat but also from other parts of the country. This could increase
demand on the basic infrastructure and basic services available, which presently
requires further augmentation and integration.
Figure 4:Percentage growth of urban population to total population in 2011 over 2001
Source: GoG, 2011
One of the key reasons for Gujarat’s accelerated urbanization is the fast growing
economy of the State. The Government of Gujarat’s outlay on urban development for
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2010-11 is 30 billion, which is an approximate tenfold increase in the budget of Urban

Development Department in the last five years.
2.3.2 Demand for energy services
Policy drivers and planned

investment are likely to Figure 5: Demand and supply of electricity in Gujarat
keep the State on a high
economic growth path over
the next 10 years. This
growth would necessitate
an increase in demand for
energy. Figure 5 shows the
significant increase in
demand for electricity and
additions to installed
capacity projected for the
next 10 years.
Given the recent growth

trends in the State as Source: Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Limited
shown in Figure 6 the
demand of energy services is likely to increase rapidly over the coming decade.
However, it can be seen that the State will remain a surplus State in terms of
installed capacity. The State energy policy already has a focus on renewable energy
sources and there are ambitious targets for harnessing solar and wind potential.
Figure 6: Sector wise energy consumption patterns for the next ten years
Source: Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Limited
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Figure 7: Renewable consumption in Million Units (MUs) (included in

total consumption -
Source: Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Limited
2.4 Policies and Measures
Gujarat has a number of comprehensive and forward looking policies in place along
with efficient governance, which is poised to take advantage of a conducive policy
framework to undertake measures for addressing Climate Change concerns.
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Figure 8: Policies, programmes and projects of Government of Gujarat which have

direct/indirect thrust on GHG mitigation
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Figure 9: Policies, programmes and projects of Govt. of Gujarat which have direct/indirect
thrust onadaptation
2.5 Institutions and Governance
Various studies have recognized the role of institutions at multiple scales, especially in
local contexts, as being the key to adaptation (Thompson et al, 2006; Shepherd et al,
2006). A study commissioned by The World Bank Group, suggests that adaptation to
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Climate Change is inevitably local and that institutions influence adaptation and climate
vulnerability in three critical ways: a) they structure impacts and vulnerability; b) they
mediate between individual and collective responses to climate impacts and thereby
shape outcomes of adaptation; and c) they act as the means of delivery of external
resources to facilitate adaptation, and thus govern access to such resources.
Institutions are also critical leverage points through which to determine the direction
and magnitude of flows of resources to different social groups (Agarwal, 2008).
Gujarat has placed considerable emphasis on empowerment of village level institutions

through extensive capacity building and proactive facilitation. The creation of Water
and Sanitation Management Organization (WASMO) has successfully been able to
bring effective citizens’ engagement through its innovative governance model, for
facilitating the community led water supply programme throughout the State of Gujarat.
Gujarat is also a pioneer State to implement the programme of Decentralized District

Planning in its true sense. Under this programme, about 20 per cent of the grant of the
district level provision is available at the discretion of District Planning Boards to
formulate and implement development schemes of local importance (GoG,
2011).Proactive measures by the State for further enhancing capacity, strengthening
institutional coordination and improving access to institutions by local communities will
help to improve the adaptive capacity to cope with Climate Change stress.
Informing an effective response to Climate Change requires a decentralized and

bottom up approach in planning. This not only provides a better understanding of local
vulnerability and impacts of Climate Change, but also provides a clear guidance on
identifying local needs and priorities to help for designing appropriate interventions for
building resilience of local communities.
To encourage decentralization of planning, starting at the finest level of governance, in

2011 the Gujarat Government launched a Rs. 600-crore programme that will involve
talukas in the development process and redress people's grievances at the block level.
The scheme, ‘Apno Taluko Vibrant Taluko (ATVT)’, covers all the talukas of the State.
Under ATVT, every Taluka in Gujarat is empowered and self-sustaining to provide a
local platform for meeting the twin objectives of economic growth and social
development. The decentralization of administration upto sub-district (taluka) level is
expected to make the governance structure fast, effective, transparent, and citizen
centric. Under the scheme, every taluka plans as per its requirements and as per the
challenges that it faces, and accordingly carries out more focused implementation of
development schemes to reap higher benefits. Such a platform can be ideal for local
level adaptation planning by engaging farmers and communities. Another noteworthy
initiative of Government of Gujarat, to facilitate participatory and decentralized
planning, is a unique programme known as ‘Gujarat Pattern of Financial Allocation’
which was launched in tribal areas in the 1998. The Gujarat Pattern funds are specially
intended for bridging the missing links in interventions and aim at economic
development and creation of local infrastructure.
In addition to these, local institutions in the State like Pani Panchayat among others,
have huge influence and can be further strengthened to serve as an effective means of
steering local communities towards climate sensitive practices.
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2.6In Summary
The vulnerabilities that climate variability and change create are key issues in the
economic and social development of the State. Although, there are studies on climate
trends and projections for the Indian region, there are few that are focused on the State.
Available observational evidence indicates that regional changes in climate, particularly
increases in temperature, have already affected a diverse set of physical and biological
systems. There is a need to study systematically the inter-relationship between Climate
Change impacts to derive effective adaptation and mitigation measures
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Section 2
Climate Variability and
Change
The earth’s climate system is found to be affected by the anthropological activities of
increase in greenhouse gases (GHGs) thus leading to Climate Change. Climate Change
does not only increase the mean average surface temperature over a region but also imply
changes in the type of weather, frequency and intensity of these weather events (IPCC,
2007). Many available observational evidences indicates that regional changes in climate,
particularly increases in temperature, have already affected a diverse set of physical and
biological systems in many parts of the world (IPCC 2001). The State of Gujarat is a
situated on the western end of the Indian region, with vast coastline of approximately 1663
km, which is highly vivid and distinct from others in terms of geomorphology, natural
resources and human activities. This makes Gujarat even more sensitive to impacts due to
Climate Changes. Covering more than 15 districts extending from Lakhpat in the north to
Valsad in the South, the State of Gujarat lies exposed to the likelihood of changes in
climatic parameters including changes in temperatures, rainfall variability, sea surface
temperatures, rainfall extremes, variation in sea levels, storm surge occurrences and
cyclonic activity in the Arabian Sea.
The first step towards preparation of a detailed State Action Plan on Climate Change
(SAPCC) is to assess state-specific risks and impacts and prioritize areas for research and
policy action in response to current and future vulnerabilities and projected impacts of
Climate Change. For this it is essential to analyze the climate variability over the state and
assess the risk associated with extreme climatic events, the use of climate models both at
the global level and regional level becomes imperative.
At the same time, the potential for the mitigation of green house gasses in the State is
substantial and needs to be harnessed.
This section provides information on Climate Trends and Projections, Climate Vulnerability
and Impacts and Sources of GHG emissions.
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3.0 Climate Trends and Projections
3.1 Introduction
Since the onset of industrial revolution it has been observed that the human induced or
anthropogenic activities have influenced the physical as well as chemical composition
of the earth’s atmosphere. The global atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide
which is a greenhouse gas has increased to a value of 400 ppm in 2014, from 280 ppm
in the pre-industrial times. Along with this, the global atmospheric concentration of
Methane and Nitrous oxides, other important GHGs, have also increased considerably.
The earth’s climate system is constantly being affected by increased anthropogenic
activities, leading to increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, thus resulting in
Climate Change. According to the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), most of the
increase in observed global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very
likely linked to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations
(IPCC, 2007a). The AR4 concludes that discernible human influences have now
extended to other aspects of climate, including ocean warming, continental-average
temperatures, temperature extremes and wind patterns. Projected scenarios also
indicate rise in global mean temperatures in the range of 1.1 to 6.4oC and Sea Level
Rise (SLR) in the range of 0.18 to 0.59 m by 2100 (IPCC, 2007). An analysis of
instrumental records, globally for over one and a half century, has revealed that the
earth has warmed by 0.74o (0.56 to 0.92)oC during the last 100 years, with 12 of the
last 13 years being the warmest. According to AR4, the rise in temperature by the end
of the century with respect to 1980-1999 levels would range from 0.60C to 4.00C and
the sea level may rise by 0.18 m to 0.59 m during the same period, globally.
The projections for future climate are obtained by the use of global and regional
models. General Circulation Models (GCMs) act as basic tools to simulate earth's
climate consisting of physical processes in atmosphere, oceans, ice sheets and land
surface. Such models give a projection globally and generally have a resolution of
about 1-3° (110-300 km) in latitude and longitude which is too coarse to provide
significant assessment over an area. Hence, regional changes are simulated by
dynamically downscaling information from GCMs using a Regional Climate Model
(RCM). The physical processes are scaled over a higher resolution (25-50 km typical)
to arrive at much better assessments over the desired area. Global models, being
mathematical manifestations of physical processes, have inherent biases and
systematic errors. By downscaling or ‘zooming’ from them, there is a risk of cascading
these inherent biases. Regional climate models also face uncertainty issues due to
regions with complex topography, such as mountainous separation between two
climatologically different plains. Since, the projections for future GHG emissions
depend on assumptions about economic developments; this also forms one of the
uncertainty parameters. Hence, for all such models, limitations should be properly
understood before carrying out any modeling exercise. Most climate scientists carry out
bias correction methods to correct outputs to arrive at better approximations both at
global as well as regional scales.
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3.2 Observed climate trends over Indian region
Indian annual mean

Figure 10: Spatial patterns of linear trends of (a) maximum
temperature for the and (b) minimum temperature
period 1901-2007 has
shown a significant
warming trend of
0.51oC per 100 years
(Kothawale et al, 2010).
Accelerated warming
has been observed in
the recent period 1971-
2007, and has been
mainly contributed by
the warming in winter
and post-monsoon
seasons, which have
increased by 0.80oC
and 0.82oC in the last
hundred years
respectively. The Indian
Network for Climate
Change Assessment
(INCCA) report
indicates an increase in
maximum temperatures
over Indian region by
0.71oC per 100 years (Figure 10a) (MoEF, 2010). The all India minimum temperature
also shows an increase in temperature by 0.27oC per 100 years during the period
1901-2007 (Figure 10b) (MoEF, 2010). In figure 10, red and blue colours indicate a
significant warming and cooling trend respectively whereas, yellow and green colours
indicate a comparatively lesser warming and cooling trend respectively. Dhorde et al,
(2009) have found that some metropolitan cities in India have recorded a significant
increase in minimum temperature during winter.
In India, and in particular homogenous regions of the east coast, west coast and the
Indian peninsula, a significant increasing trend in frequency of hot days as well as
decreasing trends in frequency of cold days, during the pre-monsoon season over the
period 1970-2005, has been observed (Kothawale and Rupa Kumar, 2005).
According to Parthasarthy (1984), monsoon rainfall is trend-less during the last four
decades, particularly on an all India scale, but Rupa Kumar et al, (1994) brought out
regional monsoon rainfall trends in the past century.
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Figure 11 shows trend analysis of extreme

rainfall for the period 1951-2007 from the Figure 11:Trends in annual extreme
rainfall. (Dark green color indicates
INCCA report (MoEF, 2010). The darker
increasing trends)
shades of green indicates significant increasing
trend. Sen, Roy and Balling (2004) also
reported overall increase in extreme rainfall
events and their intensities during the period
1901-2000.
3.3 Observed trends over Gujarat

State
This chapter brings out climate variability over

the State of Gujarat for various climate
parameters like temperature, rainfall sea level
rise etc. Gujarat has a tropical climate, primarily Source: MoEF, 2010
sub humid, arid and semi-arid spread over
different regions over the State. Regions over North Gujarat like Kutch, part of
Banaskantha, Mehsana and north western part of Saurashtra have arid climate while
the South Gujarat experiences sub humid and in rest of the State, semi-arid climate is
witnessed. The general variation of temperature is from 6oC to 46oC. Annual rainfall
varies from 250 mm in the North West and to more than 1,500 mm in South Gujarat.
Box 3: Data and model projections used
The high resolution (1o X 1olat/long) IMD gridded data and station data from
observatories have been utilized in most of the variability studies over the Indian, as
well as the Gujarat region. The all India model projections for future climate stated in
this chapter are generated by PRECIS (Providing Regional Climates for Impact
Studies, a high-resolution modeling system developed by the Hadley Centre, UK).
The runs were made at 50 X 50 km resolution for various IPCC SRES scenarios. High
resolution regional climate model (PRECIS) simulations using lateral boundary forcing
from three QUMP (Quantifying Uncertainties in Model Projections) runs made at IITM
for A1B emission scenario for 2030’s indicate an all-round warming over the Indian
Subcontinent (Figure 4). The Q1, Q0 and Q14 represent the three ensemble runs
carried out using the PRECIS model.
Out of 225 talukas (existing then), 56 talukas are drought prone. The all India
assessments in the INCCA report (MoEF, 2010) indicates a warming trend over the
Gujarat State for annual mean, maximum and minimum temperatures and also shows
a possible increasing trends in extreme rainfall.
Ray et al, (2009) have analyzed various components of temperature and rainfall over
the Gujarat using the India Meteorological Department (IMD) thirty year gridded data.
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The gridded 30 years moving averages of mean maximum temperature over Gujarat
indicate an increase by 0.11oC for the past 40 years (1969-2005). The station wise
analysis (1969-2008) also indicates the increase in temperatures more over Saurashtra
region as compared to other regions of the State. The moving averages of mean
minimum temperatures over Gujarat show an increasing trend of 0.107oC for the past
40 years (1969-2005). Saurashtra and Kutch also show higher increase in night
temperature as compared to other regions using station wise analysis.
An increase of 0.07oC in mean temperatures over Gujarat in the past 40 years (1969-
2005) with a comparative higher increase over Coastal Saurashtra region (1969-2008)
has been observed. Another analysis by Ray et al., (2009) over the cold and heat wave
conditions over Gujarat shows a considerable decrease in cold wave conditions for the
past decade indicating an increase in night temperature (Table 3) and an increase in
heat wave conditions except for Ahmedabad, Bhuj and Okha (Table 4). As compared
to 103 cold wave conditions in Saurashtra and Kutch for the period 1969-1978, the
period 1999-2008 only recorded 13 cold wave conditions. Heat wave conditions have
shown an increase over the southern part of the Gujarat and a decrease over the
northern parts. Along the coastal stations of Saurashtra an appreciable rise in heat
wave conditions have been observed.
Table 6 gives the frequencies of the occurrence of cold and hot waves in Gujarat,
Saurashtra and Kutch for different time periods. In the plains, the most severe cold
wave that has occurred included areas over Gujarat, Saurashtra and Kutch during 30
January - 2 February 1929 where a departure of -12oC of minimum temperature over
Gujarat region and adjoining parts of Saurashtra and Kutch were seen. Saurashtra and
Kutch region have also recorded considerably high number of heat spells (Raghavan,
1966). A 30 year moving average of seasonal rainfall from meteorological data from all
the stations in Gujarat for the 40 year period (1969-2008) show an increase in normal
rainfall for all the stations. Regions of Saurashtra (Bhavnagar, 60 mm) and Southern
Gujarat (Surat, 100 mm) show the maximum rise of seasonal rainfall normals. Rainfall
extremes have also shown an increasing trend in the past decade for Southern Gujarat
region and Saurashtra (Table 3). But the northern Gujarat region and adjoining Kutch
hasn’t shown any considerable trend both for mean seasonal rainfall and rainfall
extremes. An assessment on extreme weather events over India for the last 100 years
has been done by De et al., (2005). In July 1927 and July 1941 Gujarat witnessed
floods in Sabarmati and Tapi rivers respectively. The severe flooding in Saurashtra and
Kutch due to incessant rains over Rajkot in August 1979, flooding of river Narmada in
1970 and river Mahi in 1973 are few of the extreme flooding events that Gujarat have
witnessed in the past.
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Table 4: Decadal frequency of heat wave

Table 3: Decadal frequency of cold wave conditions for selected stations
conditions for selected stations
Station 1969- 1979- 1989- 1999-
Station 1969- 1979- 1989- 1999- Period 1978 1988 1998 2008
Period 1978 1988 1998 2008
Ahmedabad 52 72 35 46
Baroda 67 47 22 6
Baroda 16 12 9 28
Deesa 60 32 15 47
Deesa 20 5 10 29
Bhuj 146 111 144 10
Bhuj 31 27 42 16
Rajkot 95 33 10 21
Rajkot 9 1 14 22
Veraval 54 43 21 4
Veraval 53 52 34 72
Naliya 107 33 19 27
Naliya 17 35 30 52
Okha 4 3 4 2
Okha 5 1 2 1
Surat 48 25 0 62
Surat 54 43 25 32
Bhavnagar 116 50 8 5
Source: Ray et al. 2009
Table 5: Decadal frequency of heavy Table 6: Frequencies of

rainfall events in selected stations occurrence of cold waves and
hot waves for different
periods
Station 1969- 1979- 1989- 1999-
Gujarat, Saurashtra and Kutch
Period 1978 1988 1998 2008
Period Cold Heat
waves waves
Baroda 21 14 17 34
1901-10 2 -
Deesa 13 7 21 25
Bhuj 5 10 12 10 1911-67 85 -
Rajkot 13 18 15 21 1968-77 6 2
Veraval 21 27 26 33 1978-99 6 -
Naliya 10 13 10 11 1901-99 99 2
Porbandar 16 25 19 22
Surat 92 88 39 101 Source: 1901.10: Annual Summary
Bhavnagar 13 10 13 17 1911 .67 : Bedekar FMU
1968 .77 : Disastrous Weather Events Reports . Annual
1978 .99 : WMO Bulletin October 2000, 49, 4, pp. 340 – 348
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An analysis of tide gauge records from Mumbai, Kochi from west coast and
Vishakhapatnam and Diamond Harbour from east coast have depicted a mean sea-
level rise along the Indian coast of around 1.3 mm/year. The data from the Kandla and
Okha were linearly correlated with Mumbai data in the analysis (Unnikrishnan and
Shankar, 2007).
3.4 Climate Change Projections
The understanding on climate science and various components of climate system and
their interactions have increased to an advanced level nowadays. The main reasons for
this increased knowledge are better global data availability and hierarchy of coupled
ocean-atmosphere-sea-ice-land-surface models that provide indicators of global
response as well as possible regional patterns of Climate Change. The Global ocean
atmosphere coupled Climate Models (GCMs) provide satisfactory representations of
the planetary scale features but owing to their coarse resolution (100-300 km) their
application to regional studies is often limited. For example, to study the influence of
realistic topographical features like the Western Ghats along the west coast of India on
the monsoon rainfall patterns over India, these global models require to be used at
extremely high resolution which is not only computationally expensive but also suffers
from uncertainties of representing small scale (high resolution) climate processes on
global scale. Hence, State-of-art Regional Climate Models (RCMs) are utilized that
dynamically downscale the global model simulations to simulate the regional details of
regions of interest.
Figure 12: (a, b, c and d): Mean annual surface air
Since the knowledge and temperature climatology based on observations
understanding of implications of and simulated by three PRECIS runs compared
Climate Change at national level was with the observed climatology for baseline period
inadequate and fragmentary and to (1961-1990); (e): Projected changes in the annual
surface air temperature in 2030’s with respect to
have a sense of future Climate the 1970’s.
Change over Indian region, Ministry
of Environment and Forests
published a report “Climate Change
and India: A 4X4 Assessment: A
sectoral and regional analysis for
2030s”, prepared by the Indian
Network for Climate Change
Assessment (INCCA) in 2010. This
report provides an assessment of
impact of Climate Change in 2030s
on four key sectors of the Indian
economy - agriculture, water, natural
ecosystems and biodiversity and
health - in four climate sensitive
regions of India, namely the
Himalayan region, the Western
Ghats, the Coastal Area and the
North-East Region.
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High resolution regional climate model (PRECIS) simulations for 2030’s indicate an all-
round warming over the Indian Subcontinent (Figure 13). The Q1, Q0 and Q14
represent the three ensemble runs carried out using the PRECIS model. Particularly
over the west coast the annual
temperatures are set to increase from a Figure 13: Changes in the minimum (upper
minimum of panel) and maximum temperatures (lower
0 0
26.8 C to a maximum of 27.5 C in the panel) in 2030s with respect to baseline.
2030’s (MoEF, 2010). The rise in
temperature with respect to the 1970’s
(climatology) shows a range between
1.7 - 1.80C (Figure 12 e). Seasonal
temperature from the simulations also
projects a rise from 1.5 to 2.20C, with
the monsoon months of June, July,
August and September showing
maximum rise amongst all the seasons
(MoEF, 2010). The State of Gujarat
shows a projected rise in the range of
1.5 to 2.50C for the period of 2030’s (in
figure 12 e).
The spatial pattern of the change in

lowest daily minimum and highest
maximum temperature from the three simulations suggests a warming of 1 to 40C in
2030’s for the entire Indian region with Gujarat depicting high positive changes for
minimum and maximum temperatures indicating warming under the projected
temperature extremes (Figure 13).
The projections of all-India summer monsoon rainfall indicate a 3 to 7 per cent overall
increase in the 2030’s with respect to the 1970’s. Particularly over west coast, the
2030’s projections indicate the
Figure 14: (a) Change in frequency of rainy days, (b)
annual rainfall variations from Change in intensity of rainydays. Both changes are
935±185.33mm to observed in 2030s with respect to 1970s
1794±247.1mm which amounts to
an increase in rainfall by 6 to 8
per cent (MoEF, 2010). The
monsoon months (June, July,
August and September) show an
average increase of 8 mm of
rainfall in 2030’s with respect to
1970’s, however, the months of
March, April and May and winter
months of January and February
show a decrease in the average
rainfall with respect to 1970’s
(MoEF, 2010).
Projections of extreme rainfall
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events do not show any particular trend for the frequency of rainy days over Gujarat
(Figure 14a). However, intensity of rainy days is projected to show an increasing trend
over Gujarat region (Figure 14b).
Bengtsson et al., (2006) have modeled the track density and the mean intensity for
cyclones occurring globally for 2071-2100 vis a vis baseline 1961-1990. The study
shows that under A1B scenario, though the track density (frequency of cyclones) over
Indian region does not seem to change much but the track intensity (intensity of
cyclones) shows a positive increase for the future time period.
The regional model (PRECIS) simulation of cyclone tracks and intensity show that the
cyclonic disturbances over Arabian Sea may be less for the period 2030’s with respect
to 1970’s but the intensity of these systems would be more intense as compared to the
present under the global warming scenario A1B.
The INCCA report also suggests that the model-based projections of global average
sea-level rise at the end of 21st century indicate a rise from a minimum of 0.18 m to a
maximum of 0.59 m. The sea level rise at shorter time scales (few decades) can be
attributed to the thermal expansion. For the period 2000-2020, the rate of thermal
expansion as projected by an ensemble of Atmospheric Ocean Global Circulation
Models (AOGCMs) under the SRES A1B scenario is 1.3±0.7 mm/year which shows no
significant difference under the A2 or B1 SRES scenario as well (Meehl et al., 2007).
For the north Indian Ocean region the regional variation in sea level has been projected
to be less than 0.05 m by 2100 (Meehl et al., 2007). In the absence of availability of
regional projections, global projections can be used as a first approximation of sea-
level rise along the Indian coasts for the next few decades as well as towards the end
of the 21st century (MoEF, 2010).
3.4.1 Temperature variation
The historical data (past 30 years) analysis indicates an increase of mean maximum
temperature over Gujarat by 0.11oC. The station wise analysis (1969-2008) indicates
an increase more over Saurashtra as compared to other states. Saurashtra and Kutch
regions have recorded high number of heat spells.
The global as well as regional modeling results show a rise in the range of 1.5 to 2.5oC
for the period of 2030’s for A1B scenario and 0.5 to 3.00C for A2 scenario and 0.5 to
2.00C for B2 scenario.
3.4.2 Rainfall variation
Historical data for the 40 year period (1969-2008) over Gujarat shows an increase in
rainfall over all stations specifically over Saurashtra and Southern Gujarat. The rainfall
extremes also show an increase over the same regions.
3.4.3 Sea level change
The analysis of tide gauge data shows an increase in mean sea-level rise along the
west coast.
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Model based projections of global sea level rise show an increasing trend at the end of
21st century. In absence of availability of regional projections, global projections can be
used as first approximation of sea-level rise along Indian coast.
3.4.4 Cyclone intensity
Cyclones over Indian coastlines are projected to increase in intensity in future though
the number of cyclones occurring doesn’t show an increase.
Box 4: Cyclone risk analysis

There are not many cyclone risk analysis studies associated for Gujarat State. A
further in-depth detailed study for cyclone and storm surge hazard risk mapping both
with the use of statistical GIS based modeling and dynamic high resolution regional
climate modeling is advised. A rigorous parameterization of cyclonic storms
especially for the Arabian Sea is also recommended. Detailed ground-truthing has to
be undertaken to study the effect of the cyclone at settlement level. Inundation maps
for vulnerable sites in terms of sea level rise and storm surge impact should be
carefully prepared and studied. The data gaps for the Gujarat coast to validate the
surge model outputs should also be addressed.
3.5 Gaps to be addressed
While presenting any modeling output study a proper peer review should be carried out
and uncertainty in data and model outputs should be reported.
To have an effective response to future Climate Change there is a need for Gujarat
specific projections and also there is a need to have the required infrastructural and
institutional capacity in the State to make use of such strategic knowledge. It is very
important to take into account the existing gaps in this regard.
Box 5: Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES)

The A1 scenario family describes a future world of very rapid economic growth, low
population growth, and the rapid introduction of new and more efficient technologies.
A1B is a subgroup of A1 scenario. This scenario assumes a balanced mix of
technologies and supply sources, with technology improvements and resource
assumptions such that no single source of energy is overly dominant.
A2 scenarios are of a more divided and independently operating world having self-
reliant nations with continuously increasing population and regionally oriented
economic development. A2 is characterized by slower and more fragmented
technological changes and improvements to per capita income.
B2 scenarios are of an ecologically friendly divided world with slower rate of
increasing population than in A2. Under this scenario the emphasis are on local rather
than global solutions to economic, social and environmental stability with intermediate
levels of economic development. B2 is characterized by less rapid and more
fragmented technological change than in A1 and B1.
Source: IPCC, 2000
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4.0 Climate Vulnerabilities and Impacts
4.1 Introduction
Climate Change is anticipated to have adverse consequences on key aspects of

human development and ecosystem sustainability. The projected impacts of Climate
Change include increases in temperature and shifts in precipitation patterns, sea level
rise and extreme events.
4.2 Vulnerability of Gujarat
The IPCC (2001) defines vulnerability as ‘‘the degree to which a system is susceptible
to, or unable to cope with adverse effects of Climate Change.’’ Key vulnerability factors
for Gujarat include of Gujarat a long coastline and large sections of population
dependent upon the natural resource base and climate-sensitive sectors such as
agriculture, water and forestry.
Gujarat has over 1,600 km of coastline and settlements, both urban and rural, which
could be impacted by sea level rise in terms of inundation of low lying coastal areas,
sea water ingress into the coastal groundwater aquifers and loss of ecologically fragile
and important mangroves and wet lands. The incidences of storm surges and cyclones
could bring heavy economic and structural losses to communities besides making the
entire area vulnerable to water resources particularly for drinking and agricultural
purposes.
The vulnerability of socio-economic systems and to an extent, ecological systems

depend upon economic circumstances and institutional infrastructure. The stronger the
economy and institutional capacity, the greater is resilience and adaptability to climate
variability.
Development can help reduce vulnerability to Climate Change by reducing the impacts
of climate hazard due to less sensitivity and exposure to hazards. It is well admitted
that better economic circumstances enhance the capacity situated to cope with Climate
Change. Gujarat is one of the progressive States in India with a wide array of policy
and programmes in place for the betterment of society and environment. Although if
properly implemented these can significantly reduce the vulnerability to many Climate
Change impacts, certain studies suggest that in some cases development initiatives
may in fact increase the vulnerability to climatic changes. For example, coastal zone
development plans which fail to take into account sea level rise will put people,
industries and basic infrastructure at risk and prove unsustainable in the long term
(OECD, 2009). Therefore in some cases creation of explicit adaptation strategies may
be required in addition the on-going development process.
Nine thematic groups have been identified under the aegis of Climate Change for
addressing some of the key priority areas for Gujarat. Of these, we review change
impacts and vulnerability for the five critical sectors of agriculture; water, health, forests
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and biodiversity, sea level rise and coastal infrastructure. Table 7 indicates changes in
extreme weather and climate events, based on projections to the mid- to late 21st
century.
Table 7:Possible impacts of Climate Change on Various Sectorsin Asia

Observed impacts on Asia attributed to climate change reported in the
scientific literature since the AR4
Snow & Ice, • Permafrost degradation in Siberia, Central Asia, and Tibetan Plateau (high
Rivers & confidence, major contribution from climate change) • Shrinking mountain
Lakes, glaciers across most of Asia (medium confidence, major contribution from
Floods & climate change) • Changed water availability in many Chinese rivers, beyond
Drought changes due to land use (low confidence, minor contribution from climate
change) • Increased flow in several rivers due to shrinking glaciers (high
confidence, major contribution from climate change) • Earlier timing of
maximum spring flood in Russian rivers (medium confidence, major
contribution from climate change) • Reduced soil moisture in north-central and
northeast China (1950–2006) (medium confidence, major contribution from
climate change) • Surface water degradation in parts of Asia, beyond
changes due to land use (medium confidence, minor contribution from climate
change) [24.3-4, 28.2, Tables 18-5, 18-6, and SM24-4, Box 3-1; WGI AR5
4.3, 10.5]
Terrestrial • Changes in plant phenology and growth in many parts of Asia (earlier
Ecosystems greening), particularly in the north and east (medium confidence, major
contribution from climate change)
• Distribution shifts of many plant and animal species upwards in elevation or
polewards, particularly in the north of Asia (medium confidence, major
contribution from climate change)
• Invasion of Siberian larch forests by pine and spruce during recent decades
(low confidence, major contribution from climate change) • Advance of shrubs
into the Siberian tundra (high confidence, major contribution from climate
change) [4.3, 24.4, 28.2, Table 18-7, Figure 4-4]
Coastal • Decline in coral reefs in tropical Asian waters, beyond decline due to human
Erosion & impacts (high confidence, major contribution from climate change) •
Marine Northward range extension of corals in the East China Sea and western
Ecosystems Pacific, and of a predatory fish in the Sea of Japan (medium confidence,
major contribution
from climate change) • Shift from sardines to anchovies in the western North
Pacific, beyond fluctuations due to fisheries (low confidence, major
contribution from climate change) • Increased coastal erosion in Arctic Asia
(low confidence, major contribution from climate change) [6.3, 24.4, 30.5,
Tables 6-2 and 18-8]
Food • Impacts on livelihoods of indigenous groups in Arctic Russia, beyond

Production & economic and sociopolitical changes (low confidence, major contribution from
Livelihoods climate change) • Negative impacts on aggregate wheat yields in South Asia,
beyond increase due to improved technology (medium confidence, minor
contribution from climate change) • Negative impacts on aggregate wheat and
maize yields in China, beyond increase due to improved technology (low
confidence, minor contribution from climate change) • Increases in a water-
borne disease in Israel (low confidence, minor contribution from climate
change) [7.2, 13.2, 18.4, 28.2, Tables 18-4 and 18-9, Figure 7-2]
Source: IPCCAssessment Report 5, 2014
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4.3 Agriculture
Agriculture is an important sector in the State of Gujarat as it is one of the primary
sources of livelihood for more than half (52.0 per cent - 59.84 per cent) of its workforce
(Planning Commission, 2002; UNDP, 2004). Around 51per cent of the total geographical
area is under cultivation (Department of Agriculture, Gujarat, 2014) and agriculture
contributes to about 18.3per cent of the states GDP. Horticulture, animal husbandry and
fisheries are important sub-sectors.The output of the agriculture sector grew at an
average annual rate of more than 11 per cent in Gujarat (GoG, 2013)
4.3.1 Agro-climatic zones
The State is divided into eight agro-climatic zones based on rainfall, soil types and
cropping pattern. These are South Gujarat (a heavy rain area, south of River Ambika),
South Gujarat (between rivers Ambika and Narmada), Middle Gujarat (between rivers
Narmada and Vishwamitri), whole Panchamal, Vadodra, parts of Bharuch, Anand and
Kheda districts, North Gujarat (between rivers Vishwamitri and Sabarmati and part of
Mehsana, Ahmedabad and Banaskantha districts), Bhal and Coastal Area (around the
gulf of Khambhat and Bhal and coastal region in Bharuch, Bhavnagar, Ahmedabad and
Surat districts), South Saurashtra (all of Junagadh district, parts of bhavnagar, Amreli
and Rajkot districts), North Saurashtra (all of Jamnagar district, part of Rajkot district,
part of Surendranagar district and part of Bhavnagar district), and the North West zone
(all of Kutch district and part of Rajkot, Surendranagar, Mehsana, Banaskantha and
Ahmedabad districts).
4.3.2 Vulnerability factors
Agriculture is subject to different kinds of pressures, most of which are dependent on

nature and natural resources. Though the Government is taking measures to
counteract these, they still remain. In Gujarat, agriculture is partially dependent on
rainfall since
most of the Figure 15: Food production and average daily rainfall for Gujarat
kharif crops are
rainfed. The
incidence and
distribution of
rainfall,
particularly in
Saurashtra and
Kutch regions
and in the
northern part of
Gujarat region,
is highly erratic.
As a result,
these regions
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are often subject to drought (GoG). Hence non-availability of proper rainfall is a limiting
factor for the growth of kharif crops inGujarat.However, it can be inferred from Figure
15 that improvement of irrigation facilities in the State has helped to increase resilience
of farming systems to climate variability.
4.3.2.1Salinity
Apart from this, since Gujarat has a long coastline, salinity ingress is a problem. An
increase in the ratio of CL/CO3 HCO3 was also noted towards the coast, indicating
considerable mixing of seawater with local ground water. In 1971 sea water ingress
was observed to a distance between 2.5 and 4.5 km from the coast, and the distance
increased between 5.0 and 7.5 km from the coast in 1977. Due to this, there was a
decrease in both quality and crop yield (up to 90 per cent) in the coastal belts of
Saurashtra and Kutch, known for cultivation of high value cash crops mainly, wheat, ,
mango, coconut and garden vegetables etc. (GoG 2010).
A study by Coastal Salinity Prevention Cell (CSPC, 2008) on salinity in the coastal
areas of Rajkot district shows that farmers growing groundnut and pearl millet (bajra)
shifted to cotton and castor. The coconut plantations existing in some villages have
been destroyed. The financial requirement of the farming community has increased
due to an increasing shift towards cash crops, which demand high input. The survey
has recorded that more than 50 per cent of the farmers are seeking loans. This trend
has also resulted in people migrating for work. The table given below shows the impact
of salinity ingress on agriculture and animal husbandry in the five coastal districts of
Gujarat.
Table 8: Salinity ingress impacts on agriculture and animal husbandry
District Impacts on Agriculture Impacts on Animal Husbandry
Porbandar • Crops like pulses and horticulture crops • Decline in population of

like coconut, mango, sitafal (custard animals and animal rearers
apple) are declining with increasing due to reduction in grasses
salinity in coastal area. from the common property
resource as well as from the
• In recent period cotton and castor crop agriculture. Over the last 20
area is increasing due to change years
towards groundnut crop which is highly
sensitive to saline water
Rajkot • Shift from groundnut and bajra to cotton • Less impact on animal
and castor. husbandry since majority of
animals are indigenous
• The coconut plantation existing in some
villages have been completely
destroyed.
• The average production of Bajra, Jowar,
castor and cotton has halved
Junagadh • The area under horticulture is reducing • The number of milch animals
gradually, no new plantation of per family has reduced from
mangoes and coconut is carried out by 10-12 animals 20 years back
the farmers. to two- three animals at
present.
• Groundnut cultivation is being replaced
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District Impacts on Agriculture Impacts on Animal Husbandry

by cotton • Milk production capacity of
animals has reduced due to
reduction in green fodder from
Agriculture
• Animals yielding 15-20 liter
milk in north Gujarat, produce
less than 10 liter milk per day
in coastal villages
Jamnagar • Shift in cropping pattern in saline • Health of animals is

villages from horticulture and ground nut deteriorating due to non -
to cotton and fodder crops like jowar. availability of fresh drinking
water.
• Crops like chilly and ground nut have
reduced. • Reduction in Groundnut crop
area has resulted in shortage
• Change in agriculture season from three of fodder
crops to one crop.
Kutch • Area under Horticulture is declining • Animal husbandry has

declined due to reduction in
• Crop area under pulse cultivation has number of Maldhari families.
declined.
• Lack of fodder is another
problem faced by cattle
rearers.
Source: Costal Salinity Prevention Cell, 2008
The study reveals that in almost all the coastal districts, there is a gradual shift in the
cropping pattern, decline in area under horticulture and reduction in yield of crops.
However, even with the existing pressure on agriculture sector the State has shown an
increasing trend in crop yield, especially from 2001-02. Lack of fodder and health
impacts on animals have affected the animal husbandry sector.
4.3.3 Climate impacts
According to IPCC 2007, global average temperatures are projected to rise by about
1°C by 2030, while the global mean precipitation and runoff is expected to increase by
1.5 to 3 per cent. These changes will impact global agriculture, differentially, with
negative impacts greater in the tropics, than in the temperate areas, thus affecting
developing countries. The projected net effect will be a decrease in land suitability for
cultivation in arid and semi-arid areas. Reduction in runoff and groundwater recharge
will lead to changes in availability of water from rivers and aquifers, and a substantial
decrease is projected for India. Climate Change will increase dependence on irrigation
while the irrigation capacity will be reduced due to more frequent droughts. Decline in
water availability will be greater after 2030, but there could be negative effects on
irrigation in the short term (FAO, 2003).
4.3.3.1 Crops
Indian agriculture is facing many challenges, climate variability being one of them.
IPCC projects a probability of 10-40 per cent loss in crop production in India by 2080-
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2100 due to global warming. India’s first National Communication to the UNFCCC
suggests that an increase in CO2 to 550 ppm will increase the yield of rice, wheat,
legumes and oilseeds by 10-20 per cent. Yields of wheat, soybean, mustard,
groundnut, and potato are likely to decline by 3-7 per cent with a one degree rise in
temperature. On the west coast, there is a probability of improvements in yields of
chickpea, rabi, maize, sorghum, millets and also, coconuts. Due to reduced frost,
losses in potato, mustard and vegetables in the north-west India will be less.
In the case of Gujarat, sufficient studies are not available pertaining to impacts of
Climate Change on agriculture. Since most kharif crops are rainfed, while rabi and
other summer crops are irrigated, it is important to analyze trends in rainfall and
temperature. Analysis of rainfall data shows a decreasing trend of five per cent per 100
years in the western part, including Saurashtra and Kutch and the Gujarat subdivision.
Analysis of temperature trends reveal that maximum temperature has increased by 0.2-
0.90 C per decade. The highest rate of increase (0.90 C) was found in Saurashtra (GoG
2011).
According to GoG 2011, temperature is the main limiting factor to achieve productivity
of rabi crops like wheat and mustard. The productivity of wheat declined from 3,013 kg
per ha in the year 2007-08 to 2,400 kg per ha during the rabi season due to
suddentemperature rise at flowering stage(GoG 2011).
In Gujarat, irrigated rice yields are expected to decline in certain regions by 2030. In
the southern regions, including Saurashtra, there will be a decline in irrigated
wheatyield. The coast is projected to lose up to 40 per cent of its coconut yield and this
can be attributed to existing high summer temperatures which are projected to increase
relatively more than in the west coast region (MoEF, 2010).
Some studies suggest that agriculture is likely to be affected in the coastal regions
where agriculturally fertile areas are vulnerable to inundation and salinization (Samui
and Kamble, 2009). Also, standing crops in these regions are also more likely to be
damaged due to cyclonic activity (O’Brien, 2001).
Figure 16: Projected impacts (PRECIS)
Source: INCCA, 2010

4.3.3.2 Livestock
Gujarat is one of the foremost contributors to the rapidly growing livestock sector.
Livestock contributes five per cent to the total GDP of the State and 22.89 per cent to
the agriculture and allied sector. Livestock is also vulnerable to the impacts of Climate
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Change, according to IPCC 2007, in many developing countries; and production losses
due to greater heat stress, leading to decreased fodder productivity, will negatively
impact livestock rearing. According to FAO, effects on livestock will be partly through
deterioration of some grassland in developing countries (mostly after 2030). In case of
India, heat stress will have effect upon animal reproduction (MoEF, 2010). There will be
an increase in water, shelter and energy demand. Impacts on livestock also likely to
include, lower yields fromdairy cattle..
4.3.3.2 Fisheries
Since Gujarat has a long coast line, fisheries is an important sector in the State, the
sector is vulnerable to Climate Change impacts like sea level rise, higher sea
temperatures and changes in ocean currents. According to IPCC, rise of average
temperatures over the northern latitude can disrupt ocean currents and fish breeding
pattern. Coral bleaching and destruction through higher water temperatures could
damage fish breeding grounds in Middle and Southern Latitudes. Sea level rise and
increase in temperatures are likely to affect fish breeding, migration and harvests in
India.
Possibilites of change in salinity, temperature and ocean currents are anticipated due
to global climate change. These factors may influence marine fishiries sector. Till date,
marine fisheries sector of the state was mostly focusing on exploiting marine fisheries
resource.In the changing scenario, other alternatives like Aquaculture, Cage culture
and Artificial Reef programme need to sustain the marine fisheries sector.
The state government is implementing need based programme for the sustainability of
marine fisheries sector. Research activites on marine fisheries and allied activites are
being carried out by the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) under
ICAR, National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) under CSIR and Government level by
the department of Animal Husbandry, Dairy and Fisheries. The above institutes are
working on the issue likely to crop up due to climate change and their effect on marine
fisheries.
4.4 Water
Surface water is the main source of water in Gujarat. Out of 50,100 million cubic
meters of available quota in the State, 38,100 million cubic meters is surface water.
There are 185 river basins in the State, but the available water resources are unevenly
distributed:North and Central Gujarat, Saurashtra Kutch and South Gujarat have water
resources of 10per cent, 17 per cent2 per cent and 71 per cent respectively. Major
rivers flowing through the State include Sabarmati, Mahi, Narmada and Tapi. The
Sabarmati river basin has an annual per capita water availability of 360 cum/ca/annum.
In the Mahi and Tapi basins, it is below 1,000 cum/ca/annum (GoG, Gujarat).
The underground water resources of State are 12,000 million cubic meters. Agricultural
activities consume 80 per cent of the available water resource, of which irrigation
consumes the major part. Ground water resources are not adequate to meet water
demands of the State.
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Over exploitation of groundwater has resulted in deterioration of quality and quantity.

The water table in Ahmedabad could go down at the rate of 4 to 5 m every year (Singh
and Kumar, 2010). Water stressed conditionscould be observed mostly in regions of
Saurashtra, North Gujarat and Kutch regions. High fluoride concentrations and salinity
levels in ground-water, the main source of drinking water supply, were also detected in
few of Gujarat’s 25 districts in the early 2000s (CGWB, undated).
In the mainland region of Gujarat, water levels could be declining in all the water
bearing units in the region. The water level decline in the lower alluvial sub-aquifer,
during 1982-1991 was to the extent of 40-60 m, which indicates that this sub-aquifer
may be over drawn.
According to the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) 2014, in Gujarat, out of the 223
assessment units (one taluka for each assessment unit (except Ahmedabad and
Dascroi grouped as one unit, Surat city and Chorayashi grouped as one unit) in the
State, in terms of ground water, nearly171talukas are safe while 13are semi-critical,
05are critical and 24 talukascould be over exploited. The per capita availability in north
Gujarat and Saurashtra Kutch is low (130 m3 to 424 m3), putting pressure on ground
water. A maximum fall of 3m per year in ground water level has been observed in the
over exploited blocks is around.
Figure 17: Ground water utilization pattern of Gujarat
Source: Dynamic Ground Water Sources of Gujarat State, 2014
Climate Change poses uncertainties to the supply and management of water

resources. Changes in climate variables like temperature increases affect the
hydrologic cycle by directly increasing evaporation of available surface water and
vegetation transpiration. Consequently, these changes can influence precipitation
amounts, timings and intensity rates, and indirectly impact the flux and storage of water
in surface and subsurface reservoirs (i.e., lakes, soil moisture and groundwater).
Climate Change affects surface water resources directly through changes in the major
long-term climate variables such as air temperature, precipitation, and evapo-
transpiration. The relationship between the changing climate variables and
groundwater is more complicated. Greater variability in rainfall could result in frequent
and prolonged periods of high or low groundwater levels, and saline intrusion in coastal
aquifers due to sea level rise and resource reduction (Singh and Kumar, 2010). Thus
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groundwater resources are related to Climate Change through the direct interaction
with surface water resources, such as lakes and rivers, and indirectly through the
recharge process. The direct effect of Climate Change on groundwater resources
depends upon the change in the volume and distribution of groundwater recharge.
Scientific assessments show that Climate Change will have a significant impact on
Gujarat's fresh water resources. A basin-wise daily grid rainfall data for a period of
1951-2003 was analyzed by IITM using a mathematical model. A falling trend in the
annual rainfall of varying magnitude was indicated for Narmada and west coast river
basins (MoWR, 2008). According to India’s first national communications to UNFCCC,
it can be inferred that under the Climate Change scenario, some basins are likely to
observe a reduction in the quantity of the available runoff (GoI, 2004). Luni, the west
flowing river of Kutch and Saurashtra occupying about one-fourths of the area of
Gujarat is likely to experience water scarce conditions (Gosain et al, 2006).The river
basins of Mahi, Pennar, Sabarmati and Tapi are also likely to experience water
scarcities and shortage. (Gosain etal, 2006)
4.4.1.1 Sea level rise and coastal areas
Gujarat has a coastline of approximately 1,663 km, which is the longest and is
approximately 22 per cent of the total coastline of India (GEC, 2008). The coastal
region in this State is highly vivid and distinct from others in terms of geomorphology,
natural resources and human activities. The long coastline of the State is dotted with
41 ports and has a strong industrial presence. With almost 37 per cent of the total
population living along the coast and being an economically active zone, the coastal
regions of Gujarat are highly vulnerable to the impacts ofClimate Change.
Coastal regions harbour some of the most diverse and productive ecosystems and act
as an active interface between land and water. One of the most visible impacts of
Climate Change is that of sea level rise in the coastal regions. Sea Level Rise (SLR) is
accounted by an increase in the volume of the ocean with change in mass mainly due
to the thermal expansion of ocean water and melting of continental ice (IPCC, 2001).
Coastal regions are sensitive to climate-related stimuli owing to their exposure to SLR
and tropical cyclones. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts an
increased SLR of between 0.18 m and 0.59 m across various emission scenarios over
the next 100 years (IPCC, 2007). It also expects, with a high degree of confidence, an
increase in the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events including storm
surges and cyclonic events. Most coastal regions could be subject to increased levels
of flooding, leading to loss of land due to inundation, accelerated erosion, salt-water
intrusion and loss of wetlands and mangrove ecosystems. The key climate-related
risks associated could be SLR, flooding, storm surges and tropical cyclone
occurrences, changes in precipitation, and sea-surface temperatures (IPCC, 2007).
The projected biophysical changes due to Climate Change could have adverse socio
economic implications for human settlements, health, tourism, fresh water resources,
agriculture, fisheries, and so on (IPCC, 2007; McLean et al, 2001; GoI, 2004; Nicholls,
2002). High climate sensitivity and low adaptive capacity of the coastal regions in India
makes it a highly vulnerable system. The Delft hydraulics study for the United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP) identified India among the 27 countries with most
vulnerable SLR (UNEP, 1989).
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A variety of impacts are expected as a consequence of sea level rise with significant
implications for coastal population. The primary effects include increased coastal
flooding, loss of land due to inundation and erosion of sandy beaches. These could
lead to loss of ecosystems such as wetlands, mangroves and corals, degradation of
coastal vegetation and habitats, intrusion of salt water into groundwater systems, and
loss of cultivable land with huge implications on human systems and settlements
relating to health, displacement of population, loss of life and economic losses. All
these will increase the exposure and frequency and intensity of storms will increase the
sensitivity, leading to an overall increase in vulnerability of the coastal zones.
Studies conducted by Dwiwedi et al (2003) and Chauhan etal (2005) indicate that Gulf
of Kutch is vulnerable to sea level changes including sea level rise and of erosion along
with shoreline changes.
4.4.1.2 Coastal areas infrastructure
The economy of Gujarat, to a significant level is linked to the coastal region and
also depends upon the coastal resources. Sea level rise poses a threat to the coastal
infrastructure as it can lead to inundations, flood and storm damages in case of
cyclones, erosion, salt water intrusion and wetland loss. Gujarat is also vulnerable to
these threats.
4.5 Health
The status of health depends on a large number of factors: poverty, food security, food
pricing and malnutrition; environmental pollution and degradation; occupational health
problems; reproductive health problems; household economy and wages; economic
development; represented by per capita income, urbanization and industrialization;
social development; especially literacy rates; prices of private health care system and
public health care delivery system. Gujarat’s performance is better than all India
aggregates with regard to all vital statistics (Table 9).
Table 9: Health indicators for the State of Gujarat
Sr. Current
Particulars 1971 1991 2001
No level
1. Crude Birth Rate(CBR) 40.0 27.5 24.9 21.3
(Per 1000 population) (SRS 2011)
2. Crude Death Rate 16.4 8.5 7.8 6.7

(CDR) (SRS 2011)
(Per 1000 population)
3. Total Fertility Rate 5.6 3.1 2.9 2.5
(TFR) (SRS 2010)
(Per Woman)
4. Maternal Mortality Ratio - 389 202 148
(MMR) (Per lakh live (1992- (SRS-1999- (SRS2007-
births) 93) 01) 09)
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5. Infant Mortality Rate 144 69 60 41

(IMR) (SRS 2011)
(Per ‘000 live births)
6. Child (0-4) Mortality 57.3 31.7 18.5 12.9
Rate (SRS 2010)
(Per ‘000 children)
7. Current Contraceptive - 49.3 59.0 66.6
Use-Any Method (%) NFHS-I NFHS-II NFHS-III
8. Life Expectancy at birth
8.1 Male
8.2 Female N.A 60.9 62.9 64.9
N.A 62.7 65.2 69.0
(1991- (2002-06) (2006-10)
95)
Source: GoG, 2013
Climatic conditions play an important role in the distribution, degree of endemicity and
epidemicity of diseases in an area. Climate Change is expected to adversely impact
humanhealth by increasing the risk of exposure to vector, water- and food-borne
diseases, aggravating malnutrition and increasing injuries and deaths from extreme
rainfall events and thermal stresses. In addition, a number of non-climate factors such
as population growth and demographic change, access to clean water, adequate
nutrition and sanitation facilities, improvements in health care, and disease prevention
and control programs have tremendous influence on either reducing or aggravating
these climate induced impacts. Climate Change can have both direct and indirect
human health impacts. Indirect impacts arise from changes in temperature patterns,
which may disturb natural ecosystems, change the ecology of infectious diseases,
harm agriculture and fresh water supplies, exacerbate air pollution levels, and cause
large-scale reorganization of plant and animal communities.
Incidences of vector borne diseases (VBDs) malaria could br high in the State. VBDs
are probably the most sensitive to changes in climate parameters. Weather conditions
determine malaria transmission to a significant extent. Climate Change will modify the
dispersal, reproduction, maturation and survival rate of vector species and
consequently alter disease transmission. Temperature, humidity, rainfall, soil moisture
and the rising sea level are changes in climate that have implications for disease
transmission. Heavy rainfall which results in puddles provides good breeding conditions
for mosquitoes. In arid areas of western Rajasthan and Gujarat, malaria epidemics
have often followed excessive rainfall (GOI, 2004). Malaria, Dengue fever,
chickungunya, and Lymphatic Filariasis could be the VBDs in the State. Dengue cases
may have increased since 2008. Sporadic cases of chickungunya have also been
reported from few districts (SER, 2010-2011).Scabies too,was prevalent in the State
however, reporting on scabies has stopped since 1994. Scabies, which is a result of
water scarcity, is a communicable disease, spreads rapidly in drought prone regions.
As future projections indicate decrease in water availability in the State it could further
increase the case of scabies in the State.Coastal districts may face major health
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problems due to salinity ingress and non-availability of drinking water. The table below
shows the probable health impacts of salinity ingress, district wise.
Table 10: Probable health impacts of salinity ingress, district wise

District Probable Health Issues
Porbandar • Gastric problems, fluorosis and kidney diseases
Rajkot • Kidney stone, fluorosis, skin and gastric problems
Junagadh • Diseases like kidney stones, fluorosis, skin and gastric problems
Jamnagar • Malaria, kidney stone, fluorosis and gastric problems
• Incidences of HIV-AIDS have increased due to migratory population
in coastal areas
Kutch • Kidney stones, fluorosis, skin and gastric diseases are common in
coastal areas
Source: CSPC, 2008
Climate Change is expected to adversely impact human health by increasing the risk of
exposure to vector, water- and food-borne diseases, aggravating malnutrition and
increasing injuries and deaths from extreme rainfall events and thermal stresses.
Severity and distribution of livestock diseases and parasites is also decided by climatic
factors. (Sirohi etal, 2007)
Preliminary assessments carried out for India’s first National Communication to

UNFCCC (GoI, 2004) show that under the severity of droughts and intensity of floods in
various parts of India is likely to increase. A general reduction in the quantity of
available runoff, for period 2041 to 2060, is to be expected which would affect the water
availability in many a river basins of the country. River basins like Sabarmati and Luni
may experience water scarcity along with basins of Mahi, Pennar and Tapi (Gosain et
al, 2006). Further the study brings forth that Luni along with the west-flowing rivers of
Kutch and Saurashtra which occupy about one fourth of the area of Gujarat might face
water stress conditions. Decline in water availability in the State can affect water
resources, agriculture and other dependent sectors which may have serious
implications on health outcomes such as water borne and nutrition related diseases
amongst others.
Climate Changecould also be expected to reinforce the association between

malnutrition and some infectious diseases (Caulfield et al, 2004). While malnutrition
can increase susceptibility to infections by inducing alterations in hosts’ immune
function, infectious diseases adversely affect nutritional status by reducing an
individual’s capacity for food intake and nutrient absorption (Brown, 2003). Some global
studies (Edirisinghe, 1986) show that deficiencies in Vitamin A, zinc, iron and other
micronutrients are responsible for a substantial proportion of malaria morbidity and
mortality as these nutrients are vital for building natural resistance against malarial
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infection. A reciprocal relationship has also been postulated between diarrhea and
malnutrition in children, with diarrhea leading to nutrient loss and malnutrition
predisposing diarrhea. Other than this, Climate Change may impact quality and
quantity of feed and fodder resources such as pastures, forages and grain having
significant bearing for the livestock sector.
The projected increase in frequency and intensity of extreme temperatures may also
have direct impacts on human health in terms of thermal stresses, such as
hypothermia, influenza, cardio-vascular and respiratory diseases, heat exhaustion,
heat cramps, dehydration and many others.
Climate Changemay have both direct and indirect impact on animal husbandry sector.
The direct impacts include reduced availability of water and food due to reduced crop
yield. Increased growth of insects and eco-parasites due to irregularities in seasonal
changes and lengthening of hot periods. Examples of such diseases include
Leishmaniasis, Babesiosis, Leptospirosis, and blue tongue.
Indirect impacts include resource scarcity due to more dependence of human beings
on these resources. Congestion, overcrowding, unhealthy and unnatural feed for the
animals are the result of resource scarcity.
Studies conducted for India suggests that milk yield of crossbred cows in India could be
negatively correlated with temperature-humidity index. A rise in minimum temperature
can reduce the average daily milk yield of the crossbred animals (Sirohi etal, 2007).
4.6 Forests and Biodiversity
The forests of Gujarat extend over an area of 21647.44sqkm in the year 2011-2012
and constitute11.04per cent of the total geographical area of the State(GoG,2013). The
State has 23 wildlife sanctuaries and four National Parks covering about 8.71 per cent
of the total geographical area of the State (GoG, 2011). The forest areas are unevenly
distributed, mainly concentrated along the eastern border of the State and the hilly
portion of Saurashtra, in the districts of Dangs, Valsad, Surat and Junagadh. On the
basis of forest classification by Champion and Seth (1968), the following four forest
types are found in Gujarat: Tropical moist Deciduous Forest, Tropical Dry Deciduous
Forest, Northern Tropical Thorn Forest, Littoral and Swamp Forest.
Table 11: Forest cover in Gujarat (2007)
(Area in km2)
State Geogra Forest Cover per cent Change Scru
phical of G.A. * in b
Area Forest
Cover
Very Mod. Open Total
Dense Dense Forest
Forest Forest
Gujarat 196022 376 5249 8995 14620 7.46 16 1463
India 328726 83510 319012 288377 69089 21.02 728 4152
3 9 5
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Note:* The change in the above table refers to change in the area with respect to
revised assessment for 2005. Source: Indiastat (Ministry of Environment and Forests,
GoI), accessed on March 8, 2011
The State has a large number of wetlands, both inland and coastal. They are spread
across an area of 2,092 sq. km. and 25,083 sq. km. respectively making a total area of
27,175 sq km constituting 36 per cent of the total wetland share of India. The Gulf of
Kutch, the Gulf of Khambhat and the two Ranns cover vast area of coastal wetlands.
Main species include wintering waterfowl, lesser and greater Flamingoes. Coral is one
of the special coastal wetland ecosystem found only in the district of Jamnagar lying in
the Gulf of Kutch. The area occupied by coral is around 33,547 ha, scattered over 50
sites.
Gujarat has the largest area of mangroves (991 sqkm) after West Bengal (FSI, 2009).
Mangroves are found in the inter-tidal zone along the Gulf of Kutch, Gulf of Khambhat
and Kori creek covering 13 districts of the State with Kutch having 50,197 ha, followed
by Jamnagar district with 18,537 ha (ISRO, 2010).
The categories of wetlands and their respective areas are given below.
Figure 18: Type wise wetland distribution in Gujarat
Source: ISRO, 2010
Climate is an important determinant of the geographical distribution, composition and

productivity of forests, species populations and migration, the occurrence of pests and
diseases and of forests regeneration. These changes, in turn, could have profound
implications for traditional livelihood, industry, biodiversity, soil and water resources,
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and hence, agricultural productivity. Moreover, these Climate Change induced effects
would aggravate the existing stresses due to non-climate factors such as land use
changes and the unsustainable exploitation of natural resources.
4.6.2.1 Forests
There are few studies addressing the impact of Climate Change on forests (and
biodiversity) in India. None of these studies have looked into the impact or plausible
impact on the fauna; focusing only on the flora. Most of the earlier studies were based
on GCM models and earlier versions of BIOME model that had limited capacity in
categorizing plant functional types (Ravindranath et al, 2006). However, these studies
revealed critical trends.
More recent studies using BIOME-3 vegetation response model, based on regional
climate model projections for India show shifts in forest boundary, changes in species-
assemblage or forest types, changes in net primary productivity, possible forest die-
back in the transient phase, and potential loss or change in biodiversity (MoEF, 2004).
Building upon the above study, Ravindranath et al, (2006) studied the impacts of
projected Climate Change on forests of India, using regional climate model (RCM) and
more advanced version of BIOME model (BIOME 4). The model results indicate that
well over half of the area under forests in India is vulnerable to the projected Climate
Change impacts.
Most of the forest biomes in India seem to be highly vulnerable to the projected change
in climate. More than 50 per cent of the vegetation in India is likely to find it less than
optimally adapted to its existing location, making it more vulnerable to the adverse
climatic conditions as well as to the increased biotic stresses. These impacts on forests
will have adverse socio-economic implications for the forest-dependent communities
and the national economy. The impacts of Climate Change on forest ecosystems are
likely to be long-term and irreversible.
4.6.2.2 Wetlands
Wetlands provide a large number of ecosystem services. Inland wetlands are important
water resources replenishing groundwater and sub-soil aquifers. Coastal wetlands,
including mangroves and coral reefs, often function as natural barriers against salt-
water intrusion, protecting coastal land and inland water habitats. Wetlands are also
habitat to a large number of animals and micro-organisms.
Sea level rise will have considerable impacts on the wetlands in Gujarat. According to a
study by Dwivedi et al, (2005), 0.1 to 0.5m rise in sea level could result in wetland
losses between 2,508.3 sq. km. to 12,541.5 sq. km. (Table 12) in Gujarat.
Table 12: Estimated losses in coastal wetland (km2) in different possible scenarios of sea
level rise
State If Sea Level rises by
Gujarat 0.1 (m) 0.2 (m) 0.3 (m) 0.4 (m) 0.5 (m)
2508.3 5016.6 7524.9 10033.2 12541.5
Source: Dwivedi et al, 2005
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Table 13: Losses in coastal wetland if the present trend continues for next 100 years
Projected sea level rise (M) Loss in Wetland Areas (km2)
0.337 8452.971
Source: Dwivedi et al, 2005
The Great Rann of Kutch has vast areas of seasonal salt lakes that support huge
populations of flamingos, and is also the only remaining habitat for the approximately
2000 Indian wild asses. However, the area is highly vulnerable to sea level rise
threatening both the Wild Ass Sanctuary and the Kutch Desert Sanctuary (Clark and
Duncan, 1992). Submergence of salt marshes and mudflats due to sea level rise could
further result in loss of habitat for breeding flamingoes and lesser floricans (Sankaran
et al, 1992).
4.6.2.3 Mangroves
Mangroves play a very significant role in maintaining the coastal environment, reducing
the impact of wave action and erosion in the coastal areas, preventing salinity and
seawater ingress into the inland agricultural areas, and also providing protection to the
coastline from the impact of cyclones. Apart from these ecological functions,
mangroves play a very significant economic role in the lives of the coastal village
communities. Climatic factors like temperature fluctuation, humidity, precipitation,
number of rainy days, regular wind flow, radiation and fresh water flow in the region are
the most significant factors for development of mangroves. Global warming and sea
level rise are likely to case changes in the evapo-transpiration rate across most of the
region, resulting in changes to mangrove plantation. While mangroves in the Gulf of
Kutch could possibly adapt to low or moderate sea level rise, a rise of more than one-
metre relative to the elevation of the mangrove sediment surface in the next century
may cause serious losses. SLR could cause a loss of mangroves on the seaward front
and cause a landward migration of the mangrove forests (Gilman, 2008). Sea level rise
can also change salinity distributions, which can affect mangroves very adversely by
reducing their productivity.
Mangroves are also vulnerable to an increase in temperature, which is likely to cause

decreased tree height, changes in species composition, changes in phonological
patterns, a decrease in leaf size and an overall decrease in productivity. Besides sea
level rise and temperature stress, the mangroves in the Gulf towards Jamnagar and the
Kutch coasts may also be threatened by drought. Hardy species like Avicennia spcan
can tolerate moderate Climate Change and re-colonise but this is not true in the case
of the species like Rhizophora, Ceriops, Sonneratia and Aegiceras.Climate Change is
also likely to cause a change in ocean circulation patterns, resulting in a change in the
community structure of mangroves and could also lead to extreme storm events that
would result in a loss of forest cover (Woodroffe and Grime, 1999).
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4.6.2.4 Corals
Corals are sensitive to Climate Change impacts such as increased sea surface
temperature and ocean acidification. High species diversity and very high rate of
biological productivity make coral reefs a very important and unique marine ecosystem.
They increase shore stability and protect the coastline from wave action and the impact
of natural disasters like cyclones and storm surges. Apart from a significant role as
carbon sinks, they also provide a habitat and food for fishes, crabs, prawns and other
marine life.
The productivity of corals depends upon their structure, biological recycling and
retention of nutrients. Climate Change induced sea-water warming and clear skies
(resulting from a higher incidence of solar radiation) damage corals by bleaching them,
resulting in high mortality of a number of coral species. Increased ocean acidification
could potentially also cause a decrease in the calcification of corals in the region.
Impacts of tropical storms may extend further than the direct physical impact of the
wind waves they generate. Secondary impacts through changes in coastal runoff that
often extend on a scale of 100s of km and cause reduced water quality in near shore
areas. Runoff of freshwater and dissolved nutrients from coastal catchments is perhaps
the biggest threat to corals in near shore waters. Often these secondary impacts may
persist for weeks following a major event, and may extend over a larger area than the
physical impact area; they may cause far more damage to reefs than the structural
impact (Porter, 1992). IPCC in itsAR4 Report has predicted that up to 88 per cent of all
Asia’s coral reefs may be lost as a result of warming ocean temperatures.
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5.0Sources of Green House Gas Emissions

The effectiveness of mitigation efforts over the next two or three decades is reported to
have a significant impact on the ability to stabilize atmospheric greenhouse gases at
lower levels (IPCC, 2007). IPCC Working Group III (Mitigation) focused on seven
sectors, in AR4, that are sources of GHG emissions. These are: energy supply;
transportation and its infrastructure; residential and commercial buildings; industry;
agriculture; forestry; and waste management.
India has pledged a reduction, though this excludes emissions from agriculture, of
between 20 and 25 per cent in GHG emissions intensity per unit of GDP by 2020 from
a 2005 baseline (Planning Commission, 2011). An ambitious target of reducing the
energy intensity by 20 per cent per unit of GDP by 2016-2017 has been mentioned in
the 11th Five Year Plan (2007-2012). The Energy Conservation Act (2001) provides a
legislative and regulatory framework for implementation of energy efficiency across
nine key energy intensive sectors. India is also finalizing an incentive based market
mechanism in the form of trading of energy saving certificates in energy intensive
sectors (GOG, 2010). The Green India initiative includes planned expansion of forests
for enhancing ecosystem services, including carbon sinks, by afforestation of six million
ha to reach the national target of 33 per cent land area under forest and tree cover; and
also, supports sustainable agricultural practices. Opportunities for efficiency
improvements in industry (both manufacturing and services), transportation,
renewables and domestic sectors are simultaneously being explored and harnessed,
by adopting measures like standards and labeling for appliances, adhering to
performance standards for reducing vehicular emissions, and planned use of incentives
such as reduced taxes on energy-efficient appliances etc.
Figure 19: Sector-wise consumption of electricity (2011-12)
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Source: GoG2013
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5. 1 Energy
Since, Gujarat has recorded significant economic growth over the past decades; the
State has a high per capita consumption of electricity. Huge investments that are
planned to add to its economic momentum, and the resultant increase in
industrialization will lead to increase in urbanization and income levels, that results in
substantially higher demand for power.
5.1.1 Power generation
Gujarat will need to secure its fuel requirement as most of it is imported. Gujarat also
has a large untapped potential for energy generation through renewable sources,
which needs to be exploited. The assured availability of power at competitive tariffs can
help in positioning Gujarat as a competitive destination for industries, while also
providing a good quality of life for its citizens. This will also help revival and
development of rural industries and build rural economies, thereby reducing migration
from rural areas for employment.As on March 31, 2014, the total installed capacity of
the State is over 22,791 MW, of which 4281 MW is from renewable sources of
energy.i.e. nearly 19% of share of renewables. This includes energy from wind (3352
MW, 78.4%), solar (891 MW, 20.8%), biomass (31MW, 0.73%) and mini hydro (7MW,
0.16%) There are 23 large power plants in the State which includes nine thermal power
plants, nine gas power plants, four large hydro-power plants and one atomic power
plant.
Figure 20: Installed capacity of the State
Source: Gujarat Energy Development Agency, 2014
In Gujarat, the scenario with respect to ownership distribution is also interesting and
has dramatically changed since2009-10. The 7,607 MW of capacity in the private
sector (independent power producers) has exceeded the State Government's share of
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7,063 MW, not to mention that it has by far surpassed the central share of 3,840 MW
by March 2014.
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Table 144: Installed power capacity in western region (MW)
Installed Power Capacity in Western Region (MW)
As of June 30, 2014 As of March 31, 2009
Central State Private Total Central State Priva Total

te
Gujarat 3631.86 7596.70 17194.80 28423.36 2,351 5,447 3,826 11,624
Madhya 4306.81 5572.32 4585.47 14464.60 3,451 4,583 191 8,225

Pradesh
Chhattisgarh 1538.01 2952.00 5485.00 9975.01 521 2,168 1,156 3,845
Maharashtra 6627.34 12284.27 16255.76 35167.37 5,169 10,818 4,467 20,453
Goa 351.97 0.05 48 400.02 303 0 78 381
Daman & Diu 48.29 0 0 48.29 28 0 0 28
Dadra & 79.93 0 0 79.93 55 0 0 55

Nagar Haveli
Western 18631.60 28405.34 43569.03 90605.97 11,878 23,016 9,717 45,987

Region
Note: Grand total includes unallocated power from Central utilities
Source: Central Electricity Authority, Ministry of Power, Government of India

(http://www.cea.nic.in, accessed on July 31, 2014)
Table15: Private capacity in Gujarat (MW)
Private Capacity in Gujarat(MW)

June 2014 March 2009
Coal 8620 640
Gas 4160 1,813
Diesel 0.20 0
Hydro 0 0
Nuclear 0 0
Renewables 4414.60 1,373
Total 17194.80 3,826
Source: Central Electricity Authority, Ministry of Power, Government of India

(http://www.cea.nic.in, accessed on July 31, 2014)
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One of the facts worth highlighting is that from 2001-08, the State’s net generation
(GWh) has increased by 28.75 per cent and CO2 intensity (tCO2/MWh) has reduced by
4.18 per cent vis-à-vis India’s net generation which has increased by 37.34 per cent
and CO2 intensity has decreased by 0.93 per cent only. The State Government has
undertaken several steps to improve the overall efficiency of the power generating units
through adoption of better operation and maintenance (O&M) practices (to reduce
station heat rate and auxiliary consumption); renovation and modernization (R&M) of
low-performing/old units; and use of better quality - high calorific value coal (washed
coal/imported coal). Regular energy audits of power plants are carried out and by
implementation of recommendations of audit results, the generating stations have
achieved a saving of 13,035.831 MWh of energy per annum. In addition, the State is
aggressively promoting gas-based combined cycle power generation plants (219 MW
CCTP at Dhuvaran, Anand promoted by GSECL leading to CO2 emission reductions by
2,14,000 tCO2/annum; 375 MW CCTP at Utran, Surat).
The Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation Limited (GSPC) has planned a ‘State Wide
Gas Grid’ to provide clean fuel to remote areas of the State. A 1,500 km long high
pressure gas pipeline passing through 15 districts of the State (to cater to power,
fertilizer, chemicals and SME units like glass and ceramic etc.) has been laid and
commissioned and an 800 km stretch is under construction. The power generating
units of the State are also exploring fuel switching options from naptha to gas (for both
captive use and grid supply) to reduce GHG emissions. The State’s new Power
Generation Policy encourages setting up of super-critical and ultra-super-critical
technology based generation projects.
5.1.2 Renewable energy
In addition, the State is aggressively promoting renewable energy sources. According

to Gujarat Energy Development Agency (GEDA), the State nodal agency working in the
field of renewable energy development, investments worth Rs.65,000 crore is expected
by 2014. According to the Socio-economic Review of the State Government for 2012-
13, the wind power potential in the state is around 10,000 MW of which approx. 3352
MW has already been installedalong with the solar power projects of 891 MW capacity
commissionedas on March 2014.Some of the other key energy generation options in
the State include biofuel energy, Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) to electricity and
geothermal energy.
Table 15: Renewable energy potential in Gujarat
Source Resource Energy Generation/saving

Potential
Biomass 24 Million tones 900 MW
Tidal Gulf of Kutch, Gulf of Khambhat 9000MWe
Solar Solar radiation 5- 6.4 kWh/sq.mt./day
Wind Coastline and hilly regions 10,000 MW at 50m height
Energy 23 per cent
Conservation
Source: GEDA, 2014
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5.1.2.1 Wind energy
On the wind energy-front, Gujarat has the benefit of the longest coastal belt. The State
has the second highest potential (10,645 MW) and third highest installed capacity
(3352 MW as on March 2014) in the country with 50 sites across the State having wind
generation potential. The State Government has ambitious plan for the coasts of
Saurashtra and Kutch. Gujarat’s Wind Power Policy (2013) spells out various
incentives and exemptions (e.g. feed-in-tariff has been increased from Rs. 3.56/unit to
Rs.4.15/unit) to tap over 10,000 MW wind energy potential of the State. The
Renewable Energy Power Purchase Obligation (RPOs) for the year 2014-15 has been
increased to 6.25per cent to further promote investments in the area. By making use of
the wind energy potential of the region, the State can save 4.68 million tonnes of coal
per annum and as a result reduce its CO2 emissions by 6.70 million tonnes per annum
(GEDA, 2014)
5.1.2.2 Solar energy
In the context of solar energy potential, the State once again, benefits from its
geographical position, and has almost 300 days of clear sun and solar insolation of 5.0-
6.4kwh per sqmt per day, along with conducive arid condition and minimal sun tracking,
making it an ideal place for solar energy power plant. Vast tracts of land in
Banaskantha, Kutch and Saurashtra are ideally suited for tapping solar energy both for
generation of power and green houses. The State Government’s Solar Power Policy
(2009) extensively promotes solar power and already 891 MW of solar power has
been commissioned in various districts of Gujarat. Under the policy, a slew of
incentives are offered to prospective developers in the State. The Government has
fixed a tariff of Rs.15/unit for the first 12 years for the sale of energy by those megawatt
scale photovoltaic solar projects commissioned before March 31, 2010, and Rs.5/unit
for the remaining 13 years For solar thermal power projects, a levelized tariff of Rs.
11.55 has been fixed for 25 years.. According to State Government estimates, by using
the solar potential of the State there would coal savings of around 1.00million tonnes
per annum thereby leading to reductions in CO2 emissions of 1.43million tonnes per
annum. The State agencies are already being harnessed to provide energy inthe tribal
and rural regions of the State (Kanzal, Porbandar, Junagadh, etc.). In fact, as a
pioneering initiative in the country, the State has already launched a Smart Grid for
integrated and efficient distribution of solar energy from the solar parks to urban and
rural areas.
5.1.2.3 Tidal energy
A large coastline of 1,663 km and a tidal wave altitude reaching nearly six metres at
various locations in Gujarat presents the State with yet another energy option - tidal
energy. However, the technologies for the efficient use of tidal waves are at the
developmental stage, in the State, but undoubtedly could be harnessed. The State
Government has completed a feasibility study to set-up the ambitious Kalpasar project
which aims to generate 6,000 MW of electricity from tidal waves, during peak hours.
The multi-purpose project includes a 33 km long dam-cum-bridge across the Gulf of
Khambhat to store a huge reservoir of rain water flowing down the rivers for irrigation
purposes.
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5.1.3Energy efficiency
To address the issue of energy access to all, the State Government has introduced
several initiatives to promote use of energy efficient technologies (e.g. power
generation) and equipments (e.g. domestic use), and reduction of Transmission and
Distribution (T&D) losses. The Jyoti Gram Yojana (JGY) introduced by the State
Government supplies three phase power supply for 24 hours to all villages and
surrounding hamlets in the State for non-agricultural practices. Besides ensuring
regular energy supply to the rural population, this program has to a great degree
resulted in creation of better opportunities of local employment in the villages and
reduced the migration of people from rural to urban centres. All 18,000 villages and
52,28,660 rural households are beneficiaries of this program with a total expenditure of
Rs. 1,290 crores (Rs. 1,110 crores from GoG).
For reducing the T&D losses and improving the power factor, lines with higher
transmission voltages have been laid, high voltage sub-stations have been set-up, and
capacitor banks have been installed at various sub-stations in the State. As a result
T&D loses have drastically decreased over the years. The T&D loss during the year
2000-01 was 35.27 per cent with an installed capacity of 8,588 MW and the generation
efficiency i.e. the plant load factor (PLF) of 67.85 per cent. The installed capacity has
increased to 9,864 MW by 2008-09 with a PLF of 75.32 per cent and a T&D loss of
21.14 per cent. The maximum power demand catered in the 2000-01 and 2008-09 was
7,289 MW and 9,437 MW respectively. Thus it is evident that there has been a
reduction in T&D losses by 14.13 per cent (35.27 – 21.14) and increase in generation
efficiency by 7.47 per cent (75.32-67.85) during 2001-2009.
Thus the coming years will witness Gujarat emerging as a hub not only for power
generation from conventional sources but also from more environment-friendly
renewable sources.
Box 6: Bal Urja Rakshak Dal

The State government has introduced several programs and schemes to create
awareness about the merits of energy conservation efficiency upgradation. For
example, the Bal Urja Rakshak Dal (BURD), initiated in 2004-05, mobilizes children
as Urja Rakshaks (energy guardians) to create awareness about responsible,
restrained and rational use of energy among communities and schools. Till date a
force of 50,000 children and 3,600 school teachers has been engaged in this
program
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Box 7: Sardar Sarovar Project

Amongst the 30 large dams planned for the Narmada, the Sardar Sarovar dam is the
largest with a proposed height of 136.5 m (455 feet). According to GoG the multi-
purpose Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) would irrigate more than 1.8 million ha of land,
covering 3112 villages of 73 talukas in 15 districts of Gujarat (75 per cent of this area
is drought prone). It will also irrigate 75,000 ha of land in the strategic desert districts
of Barmer and Jallore in Rajasthan and 37,500 ha in the tribal hilly tracts of
Maharashtra. Assured water supply will soon make this area drought proof.
Year Electricity Generated (Million

KWh)
2004-05 263.257
2005-06 1951.782
2006-07 3600.082
2007-08 4435.692
2008-09 2317.673
2009-10 2501.327
2010-11 3588.740
2011-12 4359.296
2012-13 3698.239
2013-14 5877.324
There are two power houses - river bed power house and canal head power house
with an installed capacity of 1200 MW and 250 MW respectively. With the installed
capacity of 1450 MW and commenced since 2004, SSP would generate 856 to 1007
MU per year. The power is shared by three states - Madhya Pradesh (57%),
Maharashtra (27%) and Gujarat (16%). This provides a useful peaking power to the
western grid of the country which has very limited hydel power production at present.
The two powerhouses – River Bed Power House and Canal Head power of SSNNL
has generated 32593 MUs of electricity till March- 2014. A series of micro hydel
power stations are also planned on the branch canals where convenient falls are
available.
An equivalent power generation through thermal sources would require huge amount
of coal every year and would release large amount of emissions (after observing all
environmental norms and permissible limits of emissions). Moreover, the assured
water supply to the region would reduce the pressure on groundwater and in turn
reduce the electricity consumption for pumping.
Source: http://www.narmada.org/sardarsarovar.html
http://www.supportnarmadadam.org/sardar-sarovar-benefits.htm
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5.2 Industry
5.2.1 Industrial growth
Gujarat has registered impressive industrial development, since its formation as a

separate State in 1960. The industrial sector at present comprises of over 1,200 large
industries and over 3,45,000 micro, small and medium industries. As per the results of
the Annual Survey of Industry (ASI), 2005-06, carried out by the Central Statistical
Organization (CSO), under Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation,
Government of India, Gujarat accounts for 19.69 per cent of fixed capital investment,
16.13 per cent of gross output and 15.35 per cent of net value added in the industrial
sector in India. This survey further reinforced the position of Gujarat as the most
industrially developed State in India, in respect of first ranking in industrial investment
and second, in terms of value of production and value addition in the industrial sector.
Over the years, Gujarat has diversified its industrial base substantially. In 1960-61,
textiles and auxiliaries were the major contributor to the industrial economy of the
State. In the span of over 49 years, the industrial spectrum has been completely
transformed and today 12 major industry groups together account for 86 per cent of
factories, 96 per cent of fixed capital investment, 94 per cent of value of output and 95
per cent of value addition in the State’s industrial economy. In the recent years, refined
petroleum products has emerged as one of the largest industrial groups having 29.25
per cent share, followed by chemicals having 21.21per cent share. Other important
groups include food products (3.03per cent), textiles (5.66per cent), basic metals
(7.65per cent), machinery and equipment (5.61per cent), non-metallic mineral based
products (4.15per cent), fabricated metal products (3.37per cent),(GoG, 2013). The
industries in Gujarat produce a wide variety of products. The products which contribute
significantly to the Indian economy include - soda ash (98 per cent), salt (75 per cent),
processed diamonds (80per cent), petrochemicalproducts (62 per cent),crude oil (53
per cent), chemical (51per cent), groundnut (37 per cent), cotton (31 per cent) and
natural gas (30 per cent). Thus a strong manufacturing sector is the edifice of
economic activity in Gujarat. The State contributes 17.22 per cent to the total value of
output added by manufacturing sector of the country.(GoG,2013)
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Figure 21: Gujarat: Contributing to the nation across sectors
Source: Government of Gujarat, 2013
Over a period of time, Gujarat has also succeeded in widening its industrial base
geographically. At the time of its inception in 1960, industrial development was
confined only to four major cities, namely Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat and Rajkot and
some isolated locations such as Mithapur and Valsad. Today, almost all the districts of
the State have witnessed industrial development in varying degrees. Such a massive
scale of industrial development has been possible on account of judicious exploitation
of natural resources, such as minerals; oil and gas; marine; agriculture; and animal
wealth. The discovery of oil and gas in Gujarat in the 60s has played an important role
in setting up of petroleum refineries, fertilizer plants and petrochemical complexes.
During the same period, the State Government has also established a strong
institutional network. Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC), established
industrial estates by providing developed plots and built-up sheds to industries across
the State. Institutions were also set up to provide term finance, assistance for purchase
of raw materials, plant and equipment and marketing of products. Later, District
Industries Centers (DICs) were set up in all the districts to provide assistance for
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setting up industrial units by providing support services.The State also

developedinfrastructure facilities required for industries, such as power, roads, ports,
water supply and technical education institutions. The Government also introduced
incentive schemes, from time to time, to promote industries mainly in the under-
developed areas of the State, to correct regional imbalances. All these initiatives make
Gujarat a highly industrialized State.
Table 16: Key industries in Gujarat
• Agro & food processing
• Dairy
• Chemicals & petrochemicals
• Textiles & apparels
• Engineering & auto
• Gems & jewellery
• Oil & gas
• Pharmaceuticals & biotechnology
• IT
• Minerals
• Ports and Ship building
• Power
• Tourism
Source: Vibrant Gujarat Summit, 2013
Figure 22: Share of industry sectors in Gujarat
Source: Socio-Economic Review 2012-2013. Gujarat State
The filing of the Industrial Entrepreneurs Memorandum (IEM) with Secretariat of

Industrial Approvals (SIA), GoI, is considered an important parameter for assessing the
degree of industrial development in a State. The details of IEMs filed for Gujarat during
1991-2009 vis-à-vis other key Indian states are as follows:
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Table 17: Progress of Industrial Entrepreneurs Memorandum (IEM) - Gujarat and other key
states (August 1991 to November 2009)
State/UTs No. of Projects per cent Proposed Investment per cent
Share (Rs.Cr) Share
Orissa 1424 1.79 718542 12.83

Chhattisgarh 2486 3.12 741766 13.24
Gujarat 9324 11.72 701599 12.52
Maharashtra 14354 18.04 543939 9.71
Andhra Pradesh 5837 7.34 476195 8.50
Karnataka 3320 4.17 425038 7.59
Jharkhand 962 1.21 385106 6.87
Madhya Pradesh 3149 3.96 351085 6.27
West Bengal 4521 5.68 289741 5.17
Tamil Nadu 6783 8.53 236750 4.23
Other States 27403 34.44 732058 13.07
All India 79563 100.00 5601819 100.00
Source: Industries Commissionerate, Government of Gujarat (accessed in February 2011)
As shown in the above table, 9,324 IEMs having an aggregate investment of

Rs.7,01,599 crore have been acknowledged for various locations in Gujarat. The State
Government has put in place an effective mechanism for monitoring of all industrial
approvals, in order to know the status of these approvals and provide effective
intervention in the speedy implementation of these projects.
Figure 23: Key industries with policy thrust and factor advantages in Gujarat
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(*Factor advantages include benefits due to geographical location and availability of factors
such as talent pool, natural resources and capital)
Further, over time, Gujarat has registered a sizeable growth in the SME sector. There
are over 3,12,000 (September 2006) small scale industries (SSIs) in the State.A total of
140,587MSME enterprises were acknowledged during 1/10/2006 to 31/12/2012. Thus
the totalMSME stood at 453,339 on 31/12/2012 providing employment to 25,04,856
people (GoG 2013). SSIs have played an important role in dispersal of industries.
Ahmedabad district leads the State with the highest number of SSI units followed by
Surat, Rajkot and other districts. Textile including hosiery and garments accounts for the
largest number of SSI units, followed by other sectors like machinery and parts, except
electrical, metal products, food products, and chemical and chemical products, etc. The
development of small and medium enterprises has taken place in the form of different
industrial clusters. There are, in all 83 industrial clusters for different industry groups in
the State, developed at a number of different locations. The approach of cluster-based
development has helped in improving cost competitiveness of the industries by way of
creating common facilities; developing market centres and brand names; and promotion
of skill. Some of the successful clusters include the ceramics cluster at Morbi, the brass-
parts cluster at Jamnagar, the fish-processing cluster at Veravaland the power-looms
cluster at Ahmedabad. The State has 202 industrial estates established by the Gujarat
Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC) for specific sectors such as chemicals,
electronics, gems, apparels and granite.
As of May 2013, the State had 57 approved Special Economic Zones (SEZs), these
include multi-product SEZs and sector-specific SEZs covering alternative energy,
textiles, pharmaceuticals, engineering, chemicals, ceramics, gems and jewellery and
IT/ITES sectors. SEZs are considered as growth engines that can boost manufacturing,
augment exports and generate employment. Government of Gujarat has enacted the
Gujarat SEZ Act, 2004. Besides this, the SEZ Rules, 2005 and SEZ Regulations are in
place. Under the Act, assistance is provided to the developer of SEZ for development
of infrastructure facilities and providing services (SEZ policy includes flexible labour
laws and exit options for investors, 10-year corporate tax holiday on export profit - 100
per cent for the initial five years and 50 per cent for the next five years).. Gujarat’s three
functional SEZs prior to SEZ Act are– Kandla SEZ, SUR SEZ, and Surat Apparel Park.
5.2.2Environment friendly initiatives
The State Government is undertaking several initiatives to promote clean, energy-

efficient, and environment-friendly industrial development, such as using clean fuel
(NG/CNG mode) in industrial units; upgradation and improvement of industrial air
pollution control systems; and afforestation programs by corporates around their
establishments. The new Industrial Policy of the State encourages use of renewable
energy sources, water conservation and recycling techniques, reduction of carbon
footprints, use of CDM (and other market-based mechanisms) to reduce costs of
employment of high-end clean technologies, co-firing of wastes as fuel with coal, use of
biotechnological principles and processes to manage wastes and other sustainable
waste management practices by industrial units in the State.
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5.2.2.1 Energy audits
In order to promote energy efficiency in SMEs in the region, the State Government
implements the energy audit schemes carried out by Bureau of Energy Efficiency
(BEE) approved consultants. The auditors suggest various measures to SMEs for
reduction of energy consumption and over 1,200 SMEs have benefited from this
initiative. The GoG subsidizes the cost of energy audit to the extent of 50 per cent or
Rs. 20,000 or whichever is lower.
5.3 Transport
The transportation system in Gujarat is well developed. The State is extensively

covered by rail and road networks and the surface transport network is supplemented
by airline routes connecting major cities. The State also has a number of ports.
5.3.1 Road network
As of end of 2009-2010, the State had a road network of 77,265km (96.96 per cent of
which is surfaced road) including National Highways (3,262 km), State Highways
(18,421km), major district roads (20,503 km), other district roads (10,227 km) and
village roads (24,852). About 38.2 per cent of the total expressways and National
Highways in the State are multi-lane and 87.9 per cent of total roads are asphalt-
surfaced. In addition, there is 98.86 per cent rural connectivity through all-weather
roads, which is among the highest in India. (GoG, 2013)
‘PragatipathYojana’, a State Government initiative introduced in 2005, envisages the

development of nine high-speed corridors and widening of highways to connect tribal,
coastal, industrial and rural areas with mainstream areas.
Figure 24: Road map of Gujarat Table 18: Road network
Road Type Road

length
(km)
National Highways 3,262
State Highways 18,421
Major district 20,503
roads
Other district 10,227
roads
Village roads 24,852
Source: Gujarat State Road Development Corporation, GoG 2013
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5.3.1.2 Motor vehicle emissions
The number of registered motor vehicles in the State has increased from 129.93 lakh in
2010-2011 to 144.14 lakh in the year 2011-12, showing a growth of 10.93per cent.
About 72.86per cent of the total registered vehicles were motor-cycle class vehicles
(two wheelers). During the year 2012-13 (April-October-2012), total number of
Box 8: Reducing Vehicle usage in Ahmedabad
With the burgeoning population of over 4.5 million in Ahmedabad city, around
8,00,000 passengers are ferried every day through a fleet of over 1,000
Ahmedabad Municipal Transport Service (AMTS) buses and around 1.9 million
private vehicles of all kinds. The enormous traffic is a major source of GHG
emissions in the city.
To reduce the traffic congestion and thereby address the problem of GHG
emissions, the State government has planned and executed the Bus Rapid
Transport System (BRTS) at a cost of around Rs.9, 820 million. This would
ultimately reduce the movement of 4,00,000 vehicles per day and carry 1,00,000
additional passengers through BRTS buses over and above AMTS buses. As per
estimates, there would be a net reduction of 37,000 tonnes of GHG per annum
(mainly CO2 and NOx) as a result of this massive project. In addition, more than a
dozen flyovers are being executed in the city to facilitate easy transit of around
200,000 vehicles leading to further emissions reductions.
In fact, as a result of the above stated projects and other similar initiatives carried
out in the city, Ahmedabad has dropped to the 66th rank from 4th rank in the
ranking of leading polluted cities of the country published by the CPCB (2008).
registered vehicles was 151.68 lakhs. The number of registered motor
cycles/scooters/mopeds increased to 110.53 lakh from 105.12lakhs showing a rise of
5.14per cent. The number of auto-rickshaws, motor cars (four wheelers including
jeeps), goods vehicles (including tempos), trailers and tractors registered an increase
of 24,433, 1,06,811, 37,571, 10,945 and 24,284 respectively during the year 2012-13
(April-October-2012).
The number of routes operated by the Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation
(GSRTC) decreased to14,853, with route km coverage of 11.36 lakh km in 2011-12.
The average number of GSRTCvehicles on road during the year 2011-12 was 6,660 as
against 6,327 in 2010-11.
The State authorities are implementing several initiatives to address the problem of air
pollution with the increasing pressure on the existing and proposed transport
infrastructure in the State. This includes construction of flyovers, ring-roads, by-pass
roads etc. to reduce distance travelled between two points (and thereby reduce fuel
usage). This effort included construction of 53 bridges by the Surat Municipal
Corporation and 14 flyovers that are under construction by the Ahmedabad Municipal
Corporation; promotion of mass transport systems (in last three years more than 3,700
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buses, including 100 CNG buses, were acquired by the GSRTC and another 1,000
buses will be inducted; and 8 lakhpassengerstravel by Ahmedabad Municipal Transport
Services Buses per day) to increase the number of people travelled per litre of fuel; and
construction of Bus Rapid Transport System (BRTS), in Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Vadodara
and Surat. Conversion of diesel/petrol run vehicles to CNG has been actively
encouraged in the State, and till 2009 more than 3.26 lakh auto-rickshaws have
switched to CNG. The traffic signals are being run on solar power or LED instead of
conventional power in several cities in the State. Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) are being
facilitated to adopt the public private partnership model (PPP) for promotion of urban
transport run on cleaner fuels to the extent possible, and this has been successful in
Surat, Rajkot and Vadodara.
5.3.2Ports
The State of Gujarat, located on the west coast of India, has a coastline of about 1,663
km, and one of the strongest port infrastructures in India with 42 ports including one
major port at Kandla and 41 minor ports geographically dispersed across South Gujarat
(14 ports), Saurashtra (23 ports) and Kachchh region (4 ports). In 2007-08, the State
was ranked first in India, with 147 MMT in cargo throughput. The State has five direct
berthing commercial ports, seven direct berthing captive port terminals and four
lighterage-cargo ports. It handled the largest (79.84 per cent) share of cargo traffic in
India’s minor and intermediate ports, and 11.5 per cent in India’s major ports in 2008-
09. The State has two LNG terminals that offer transportation facilities for natural gas,
crude oil and petroleum products from the Middle East and Europe. Further, Gujarat
plans to have modern mechanized cargo handling systems in all the new ports. Gujarat
has formulated a Port Policy and promotes private sector investment in development of
ports and related infrastructure. Ten green field port projects identified by Gujarat
Maritime Board (GMB) as envisaged in the Port Policy, 2005, are now functional.
Figure 25: Main ports of Gujarat
Source: “Ports of Gujarat” –sector profile 2008-09, Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB)
Many upcoming ports are being developed as captive ports to catering to specific
company and industry requirements. The State undertakes fast-track clearance in
establishment of ports through private participation and there is an increase in
connectivity to non-major ports owing to the development of the Delhi-Mumbai
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Dedicated Freight Corridor. More than 4,800 ships and 1,000 sailing vessels visit the
ports of Gujarat every year.
5.3.3 Airports
Gujarat has a fairly extensive network of airports and airfields scattered throughout the
State. There are 13 domestic airports (the highest in any State) and one international
airport at Ahmedabad. The domestic airports are at Bhavnagar, Bhuj, Jamnagar,
Kandla, Keshod, Junagadh, Porbandar, Rajkot, Surat, Vadodara, Zalawadand and
Mehsana. Further, a feasibility study for an international airport at Fedrain Dholera
(about 130 km away from Ahmedabad) has been completed in January 2010. Once
ready, the airport could be useful for both passenger and cargo purposes.
Figure 26: Airports in Gujarat
Source: http://www.ibef.org/states/gujarat.aspx
5.3.4 Rail
The total length of railway lines in the State as on 31st March 2011 was 5,271 route km
comprising 3,382 km of broad gauge (BG), 1205 km of metre gauge (MG) and 684 km
of narrow gauge (NG) lines. There are 21 major railway stations in Gujarat. The
important stations are Ahmedabad, Anand, Bhavnagar, Bhuj, Godhra, Porbandar,
Rajkot, Vadodara (Baroda) and Valsad.
Figure 27: Key railway stations in Gujarat
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Source: http://www.ibef.org/states/gujarat.aspx
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5.4 Agriculture
The agricultural sector, on an average, accounts for about 30 per cent of the total
electricity consumption in India and currently Gujarat’s agriculture sector is the second
largest consumer of electricity in the country. However, it should be noted that the
recorded patterns of energy consumption in the State in the yr 2000-2001 showed that
agriculture sector consumed the highest share at 45.12 per cent, whereas the industrial
sector ranked second with 28.59 per cent consumption. But by the year 2008-09 due to
concurrent emphasis of the State Government on initiatives promoting energy
efficiency and better irrigation facilities, the sector’s electricity consumption drastically
reduced to 21.10 per cent leaving scope for enhanced consumption by industries. The
sector uses energy directly as fuel or electricity to operate machinery and equipments
like tube-wells, tractors etc., to heat or cool buildings for preservation and storage of
crops, for lighting on the farm, and indirectly in the fertilizers and chemicals produced
off the farm to be used in growing crops. Thus the main drivers of agricultural energy
use are agricultural production, the quantity of land used and the penetration of
material in use, such as pumping set and agricultural machinery. As shown in the table
below, states like Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh
etc. are some of the leading states in terms of energy consumption in the sector.
The latest data from GHG emissions inventory of 2007 indicates that the agriculture
sector contributes 28 per cent of the total GHG emissions from India. The emissions
are primarily due to methane emission from rice paddies, enteric fermentation in
ruminant animals and nitrous oxides from application of manures and fertilizers to
agricultural soils. Indian livestock are responsible for about 54 per cent of total methane
emission in India. Indian livestock emit about 10 Tg methane by consuming about 600
million tonnes of feed, consisting largely of crop residues and agro-industrial
byproducts (GoI 2011). There exist huge inefficiencies in energy use in the agriculture
sector across the country. In fact it has been estimated that the largest population of
inefficient pumps and systems is found in this sector. According to BEE, 45-50 per cent
of energy savings can be achieved by mere replacement of inefficient pumps and
further, there exists a potential of an overall electricity savings of 62.1 billion units
annually from over 20 million pumps in the country being used in the sector.1The sale
of electricity to the sector amounts to no more than 5-10 per cent of the State Electricity
Board’s revenues in the country and the adoption of a flat rate pricing for agricultural
power, which leads to energy wastage, over pumping and inefficient selection of crops.
Moreover flat rate pumping masks the true cost of power to farmers. Summing up, the
tariff structure and the poor combination of technology and management are
responsible for water loss, unsustainable exploitation of ground water and the high
energy losses associated with the distribution and end-use of electricity in irrigation
water pumping and other agricultural activities. In Gujarat, some of the technical
reasons for inefficiency in the agricultural pumping system (APS) in the State include-
faulty installation, undersized pipes, high friction foot valves, poor maintenance and
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substandard models of pumps. According to GEDA (2006), there is a scope of

improving the efficiency of APS in the State by 30-50 per cent by taking corrective
measures. As the electricity tariffs for farmers are low, neither the farmer nor the pump
dealer have a large incentive to install efficient APS.
Further, studies suggest that Indian states with higher forms of mechanization have
higher productivity level. This is especially true for an industrially advanced and
economically sound State like Gujarat which has recorded the highest agricultural
growth (9.6%) among Indian states between yr 2000-01 and 2007-08. According to
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the main reasons behind this
exemplary performance of the State include massive investment in agricultural
infrastructure mainly irrigation, diffusion of new technologies and power reforms by the
State agencies.
Table 19: Net area irrigated by source (Area in '00 ha)
Year/ Net Area Irrigated by Percentage
District Govt. Tanks Tubewells Other Total of net area
canals & other Sources irrigated to
(Incl. wells net area
Panchayat sown
canals)
1970- 2358 372 10831 147 13708 14.11
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1980- 3668 408 15884 65 20026 20.91
81
1990- 4731 314 19301 30 24376 26.07
91
2000- 3476 153 24347 84 28060 29.75
01
2001- 3824 132 25901 87 29944 31.12
02
2002- 3804 135 26373 149 30461 32.32
03
2007- 7710 454 33027 1142 42333 42.48
08
Source-Directorate of Agriculture, Gujarat; Statistical Abstract of Gujarat State (2006), GoG

2013
Another important factor that contributes significantly to the total energy consumption in
this sector is the use of chemicals in the form of fertilizers, pesticides etc. The
consumption of chemical fertilizers in the State has been steadily increasing over the
last few decades.
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Table 20: Consumption of chemical fertilizers in Gujarat

Year Fertilizers (in tonnes)
Nitrogenous Phosphatic Potassic Total (NPK)

(N) (P2O5) (K2O)
1960-61 7386 3524 161 11071
1970-71 105711 51923 6646 164280
1980-81 204125 117224 35519 356868

1985-86 286507 109296 25506 421309
1990-91 430746 217147 58493 706386
1995-96 551927 160161 41410 753498
1996-97 596648 175619 41271 813538
1997-98 702771 264832 60287 1027890
1998-99 690728 267569 61358 1019655
1999-00 632133 264726 68750 965609
2000-01 498963 195671 56006 750640
2001-02 605640 240232 69362 915234
2002-03 510793 207046 71593 789432
2003-04 687548 255281 73497 1016326
2004-05 753994 296263 96223 1146480
2005-06 834737 328458 116729 1279924
2009-10 1101600 491660 206460 1799720
Source-Directorate of Agriculture, Gujarat; Statistical Abstract of Gujarat State (2006). GoG,

2013
Thus, besides the overall reduction of power savings from the use of efficient
heating/cooling and storage etc.
5.5 Forestry
Forests play multiple roles in the context of Climate Change. Forests and forest
products can play a significant role in mitigation of harmful effects of greenhouse gas
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emissions. They act as a “sink” to absorb emissions and store large quantities of
carbon for extended periods of time. Forests are also an important component of
adaptation strategies needed to address continuing, sometimes dramatic, changes in
the natural resource base that sustains livelihoods. However, when forests are
destroyed, over-harvested or burnt (deforestation/degradation), they can become a
“source” of CO2 emissions. Thus, sustainable forest management should be a critical
component of any policy and action programme that seeks to address the growing
concern about climate. Afforestation and reforestation programs create opportunities
for carbon sequestration.
5.5.1 Mitigation
Forests can contribute to Climate Change mitigation (IPCC 2007) by increasing carbon
density of existing forests at both stand and landscape scales and reducing emissions
from deforestation and degradation. According to IPCC, the mitigation potential of the
forest sector is estimated to be in the range of 8.2 to 13.5 per cent of the total
mitigation potential, considering all sectors.
5.5.2 Initiatives
Realizing the importance of forests and the role it can play in addressing the challenge
of Climate Change, the State Government is undertaking several initiatives to protect
the existing cover and also bringing more area under forests and plantations. Some of
the strategies being adopted by the State agencies to achieve this goal include social
forestry, promotion of multi-cropping in agriculture, mangrove plantation along the
1,663 km coastline etc.
5.6 Urban Development
Gujarat is the sixth most urbanized State in India with more than 42 per cent of its
population residing in urban centres (Census 2011). This is an approximately a 14 per
cent increase over 2001 figures.
Figure 28: Urbanisation projections
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Source: MHA 2011
Urban planning measures therefore needs to integrate these climate impacts into their
planning processes. The State of Gujarat is the first to implement various strategies
that directly address climate impacts and the institutional mechanism to implement
these is fairly well developed.
The latest National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) report, 'Migration in India',
which was based on a survey carried out by NSSO across India in 2007 and 2008 has
found Gujarat to have the highest rate of urbanization, among all other states in the
country. The report brought out that the fast pace of urbanization in Gujarat is mainly
due to intra-State migration with large sections of rural people migrating to urban areas,
within the State. The report has also found that 6.5 per cent of all urban households in
Gujarat are migrants from within the State, which is the highest in the country.
The critical issues that would need to be taken care of with the increasing trend of
urbanization include adequate provision of housing facilities (including land use
planning), access to energy and water supply, proper sewerage, municipal solid waste
management, transport infrastructure, employment generation etc.
However, a fact that needs to be highlighted at this stage is that urbanization leads to a
widening gap between demand and supply of essential services and infrastructure.
Rapid urbanization fuelled by industrialisation and expansion of service sectors will
exert significant pressure on existing urban centres, expanding them to create new
urban areas. Hence, there is a need to balance the process of urbanization with the
proper and integrated development of its infrastructure. Today more than half of
Gujarat’s urban population resides in seven large urban centres. Gujarat will need to
intervene to ensure that the urban and spatial growth along growth centres/corridors,
ports etc are managed well so that urban services can be provided to all.
Commercial and residential buildings are closely associated with emissions from
electricity use, space heating and cooling. When combined, the IPCC estimates global
emissions from residential and commercial buildings to be eight per cent of global GHG
emissions. Commercial and residential buildings are responsible for direct emissions
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(onsite combustion of fuels), indirect emissions (from public electricity use from street
lighting and other activities and district heat consumption) and emissions associated
with embodied energy (e.g. materials used for their construction). Emissions are
affected by the need for heating and cooling, and by the behavior of building
occupants. The type of fuel used for heating and cooling purposes also determines the
amount of GHG emitted (UNHSP 2011)
Use of energy in commercial and residential buildings has a huge potential of reducing
emissions. It is expected that, in India, two-thirds of the commercial buildings in 2020
will be built between yr 2005 and 2020. Implementing the Energy Conservation
Building
The code to reduce the energy use in new, large commercial buildings, aggressively,
should be a priority. This needs effective integration of the ECBC, with the building bye
laws implemented by the local governments. Adoption of ECBC could lead to a decline
of 30 per cent in the energy intensity of the commercial-buildings sector (GoI 2011)
5.6.1 Existing initiatives

5.6.1.1 Surat resilience plan
The recommendation of integrating climate risks into urban planning processes offers
potential for Gujarat as it already has a pilot city where resilience plan has already
been prepared. Surat has been one of the three cities in India which has been a part of
Rockefeller Foundation’s Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network. Under the
program Surat city vulnerability to Climate Change impacts was analyzed and a city-
wide resilience plan was developed. There is strong potential for replication and scaling
up of Surat vulnerability analysis exercise and resilience strategies preparation
exercise to other cities in Gujarat. The State has the R&D potential to integrate
environmental and sustainability issues in its development planning process through
various reputed institutions offering expertise to do so. Although the strategies
suggested by the Surat resilience plan do not form part of the Surat CDP, as it was
prepared much earlier, they offer potential to do so.
The Surat Resilience Strategy had a multi-sectoral approach, due to which sectoral
analyses are available for key urban sectors. For example; five sector studies were
conducted which included environment; flood risk and management; health; energy
security; and water security to guide the resilience strategy. These studies offered a
range of interventions and adaptation options in response to climate risks in the city
and to its inhabitants and are available for reference and implementation by the
concerned departments.
Table 21: Broad resilience strategies as propagated through the Surat Resilience Plan
Sectors Resilience Option/Interventions
Climate Watch Group
Natural End-to-End Early Warning System
Disasters Multi-Hazard Emergency Response Plan
Hazard Risk Zonation and Zoning Ordinance
Flood reduction infrastructure
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Sectors Resilience Option/Interventions

Urban • Disease surveillance and epidemiological research
Health • Health GIS
• Improved Vector control system
• Literacy development on Climate Change and Health
Risks
Water • Water resources and supply management plan informed
Resources by CVCC. This includes
- Water supply monitoring system
- CVCC informed resource assessment
- Technology options (including reuse and
desalination)
- Demand side management
- Water conservation options
- Hardening and design of resilient infrastructure to
withstand sea level rise, floods
- Emergency supply management
- Reduction of leaks programme
- Awareness Programme
Population • Skill building Programme (HRD plan)
• Certification Programme
• Monitoring programme on migration, Need Assessment
Environment • Integrated Public Transport System
• Traffic Management Plan
Economy • Loss Minimization Studies
• Business Continuity Plan
• Development of health support systems for industrial
workers
• Managed retreat of industries and high value infrastructure
(from high risk to low risk zone)
Social/equity • Disaster resilient and energy efficient housing for poor
• Awareness generation and social action
• Preventive action (to reduce conflicts)
Technology • Energy efficiency improvement programmes
• Clean and sunrise industry/service sector
Source: Surat Resilience Strategy Brief, Rockefeller Foundation
5.6.1.2 Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission
Under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), Gujarat is the
second highest recipient of projects with 71 approvals after Maharashtra which has 80
projects sanctioned as of 21-3-2014 (MoUD, 2014). Initially, the sanctioned projects for
Gujarat include 26 projects worth Rs.2,540 crore for Ahmedabad, 25 projects worth
Rs.1.835 crore for Surat, 12 projects worth Rs. 574 crore for Vadodara and 6 projects
worth Rs.305 crore for Rajkot. Other projects include BRTS, conservation of heritage
structures, drinking water, sewer, over bridges and waste disposal. Initially,under basic
services to urban poor (under JNNURM), the State has sanction for 17 projects for
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1,01,180 residential units worth Rs. 1,592.12 crore, including three projects worth Rs.
524-crore for Ahmedabad, 9 projects worth Rs. 611 crore for Surat, 3 projects for
Vadodara worth Rs. 358 crore and two projects worth Rs. 990 crore for Rajkot(GOG
2010b; Desh Gujarat 2010). As of 08-08-21012, 27 projects have been sanction for
113488dwelling units under basic services to urban poor. By March 2014, Gujarat had
already completed 52 projects worth Rs. 2,77,414.87 lakhs under JNNURM in the four
biggest cities in the State (Ministry Of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, 2014)
5.6.1.3 Green buildings
The design and use of built environment is critical for Climate Change mitigation
because the ‘Building sector consumes roughly one-third of the final energy used in
most countries and absorbs an even more significant share of electricity. A green
building design is therefore advocated which reduces the natural resources to the
minimum during its construction and operation. The aim of a green building design is to
minimize the demand on non-renewable resources, maximize the utilization efficiency
of these resources, when in use, and maximize the reuse, recycling, and utilization of
Box 9: Gandhinagar – The Solar City
The Gujarat Government has implemented a Gandhinagar Rooftop Programme for

electricity generation through solar power under the Gandhinagar Solar City
programme. The 5 MW rooftop systems are installed and commissioned out of
which 80% are on government building and 20% are on rooftop of private residents.
A 1 MW plant has been commissioned within 105 days and at a cost of 15 crore
and PDPU, Gandhinagar and a 1 MW plant has been commissioned at the ash
dyke of Gandhinagar Thermal Station. Each project generates 15 lakh unit of power
per year and reduce the carbon dioxide emission by 1500 T. Solar panels fitted on
the rooftops of the houses will generate electricity since seven in the morning till
five in the evening. House owners are given two meters - one measures the solar
energy generated through solar panels while the other measures the household
electricity consumption. The roof-rent agreement has been signed between the
Developer and household owner, wherein the Developer pays Rs. 3/- per unit of
electricity generation to the owner. Apart from above, other systems such as solar
water heating systems at residence & institutes have been installed, energy
efficient street lights and tube lights has been installed which have the total annual
saving of 149.20 lakhs units of electricity, carbon emission reduction of 14,900
tonswhich is reduction of 10,430 tons of coal.
Source: GEDA, 2014

renewable resources.
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It maximizes the use of efficient building materials and construction practices;

optimizes the use of on-site sources and sinks by bio-climatic architectural practices;
uses minimum energy to power itself; uses efficient equipment to meet its lighting, air-
conditioning, and other needs; maximizes the use of renewable sources of energy;
uses efficient waste and water management practices; and provides comfortable and
hygienic indoor working conditions.
5.6.2 Urban energy efficiency
The State is implementing the country’s largest urban energy efficiency program
covering all municipal corporations and municipalities in the State. The program is
expected to result in energy savings of nearly 30 per cent thereby contributing
significantly in the process of ensuring regular energy supply to all urban centres in the
State. To reduce energy consumption and wood usage and thereby restrict GHG
emissions, crematoriums in several cities of the State are being converted from electric
furnace to CNG furnace leading to electricity savings of over 60 per cent. Burning of
one pyre by using firewood requires around 240 kg of wood and emits 160 kg of CO2 in
the atmosphere. Replacement of conventional incandescent bulbs with CFLs in
commercial and residential buildings and stringent enforcement of the ECBC is being
aggressively promoted in the urban areas of the State. Also, decentralized solar energy
technologies/equipments like roof-tops for heating and cooking purposes are being
encouraged.
5.7 Waste
According to the IPCC (2007) report, existing waste management practices can provide
effective mitigation of GHG emissions. A wide range of mature, environmentally
effective technologies are commercially available to mitigate emissions and provide co-
benefits for improved public health and safety, soil protection and pollution prevention,
and local energy supply. Waste minimization and recycling provide important indirect
mitigation benefits through the conservation of energy and materials. Lack of local
capital is a key constraint for waste and wastewater management in developing
countries and countries with economies in transition. Lack of expertise on sustainable
technology is also an important barrier. In 2007 the waste sector contributed to three
per cent of India’s total GHG emissions (GoI 2011).
5.7.1 Initiatives
To address the issue of municipal solid waste management, construction of regional

landfill sites has been proposed for 36 identified clusters, out of which 7 clusters were
taken up by the respective municipal corporations. Among them Ahmedabad, Surat
and Vadodara has commissioned the landfills, Rajkot Municipal Corporation is
developing the landfill, Jamnagar, Bhavnagar and Junagadh are in process to prepare
detailed project report (DPR).The rest are being taken care by GUDC. Of which, the
construction of nine common/regional landfill sites has been done by GUDC while
another nine regional landfill sites is under progress. Ninety three vermi-composting
plants have been constructed across the State . The functional vermi-compost plants in
the State are eventually expected to generate more than1,000 tonnes of vermi-
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compost per day. In addition, to makingthe entire value chain of waste management
more effective, elaborate and efficient infrastructure for collection and transportation of
wastes from generation sites (e.g. households, etc.) to treatment sites has been
developed over the years. (GUDC: http://udd.gujarat.gov.in/projects_SWM.php,
accessed on May 5, 2014)
The major cities in the State are implementing several waste-to-energy projects. The
Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) alone is implementing nine sewage treatment
Section 3
Strategies for the
State Action Plan on
Climate Change
plants (STP) with an overall capacity of more than 800 MLD. Another 430 MLD of STP
plants are being proposed an extension of existing STPs. To harness the methane
generated in the sewage treatment process (and thereby reduce the GHG emissions),
SMC has set-up sewage gas based power plants with an overall capacity of 4.75 MW.
As per the availability of bio-gas, an average of 3500 units are being generated by one
ofthe power plants since November 2003. The average saving in Monthly electricity bill
is about Rs. 3 to 3.50 lakhs. (Source:
http://www.suratmunicipal.gov.in/Drainage/Drainage_stps.aspx, accessed on May 5,
2014)
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6.0 Strategies for the State Action Plan on

Climate Change
The Government of Gujarat, through its State Action Plan on Climate Change, intends
to develop an integrated Climate Change response strategy to prepare for and adapt to
the impacts of changing climate conditions. State agencies have drawn on the
expertise of a broad range of stakeholders to develop strategies for: reducing losses to
agriculture and forestry; improving water management and its equitable sharing;
protecting livelihoods and human health; safeguarding existing and planned
infrastructure and transportation systems; protecting vulnerable species and
communities; and promoting environmentally sensitive employment by creation of
green jobs.
6.1 Gaps in scientific research studies
The vision of a leader can provide impetus and drive action at various levels of
administration and governance. Although the political leaders are aware of the
challenges associated with global warming, they need detailed information on the
Climate Change scenarios, impacts on priority sectors, the possible adaptation
measures that can be incorporated in developmental activities and the costs of
undertaking these measures. In the absence of definite answers they often find it
difficult to channel resources for adaptation actions.
For Gujarat, there may not be enough studies at the district and taluka level on the
vulnerability and impacts of Climate Change at a scale that is relevant for anticipatory
decision making. Also, the available studies on climate modeling and impacts
projections have a degree of uncertainties associated due to factors such as non-
linearities, regional scale variations and limited understanding of the climate system.
For example, uncertainties are associated with the: magnitude of Climate Change;
response of the climate system to these changes at global and local scales; and impact
models and the spatial and temporal distributions of impacts. These uncertainties get
accumulated at various levels of climate assessments have implications for the
development of long term adaptation strategies. These when coupled with limited
information base, contribute to the complexity of political decision making for
addressing the Climate Change challenge.
Policy-making often involves trade-offs and is a result of fully considered choices. This
might create a scenario where action on Climate Change is delayed in anticipation of
more reliable scientific evidence. Climate Change requires urgent attention and
immediate action. Therefore, it is important to take cognizance of the fact that although
there might be uncertainties associated with Climate Change projections, the impacts
are imminent, not restricted to administrative boundaries and therefore cannot be
overlooked. The development priorities can no longer be viewed in isolation from
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Climate Change threats and responding to the challenge demands serious

consideration and action at the highest level of administration.
6.2 Approach of the action plan
Despite the gaps and limitations in scientific literature and research on Climate
Change, Gujarat recognizes the need to harmonize economic growth and industrial
development with climate concerns by adopting appropriate adaptation and mitigation
strategies. This may involve examining and exploring various approaches and
opportunities that are relevant in the local context and mainstreaming those into
developmental planning.
6.2.1 Creating a knowledge base
The SAPCC implementation

process will enable
generation and collation of
reliable scientific data at the
district and block level;
strengthening capacity of
research institutions in the
State to undertake climate
impact assessment studies;
ensuring the gathering of
information on such inter-
sectoral impacts; and the analysis of
trade-offs and fully informed choices Figure 29: Approach of the action plan
between alternatives after a proper
consideration of effects on different
sectors. It will include integrated vulnerability assessments of key crops, ecological
resources, and socio-economic systems at the community level. The results can be
used to promote education, training and public awareness of the potential impacts of
Climate Change.
6.2.2 No-regrets options
The course of the action plan will include adopting ‘Win-Win Strategies and ‘No-
Regrets’ Options, that include GHG emissions reduction with negative net costs,
because they generate direct or indirect benefits that are large enough to offset the
costs of implementation.
6.2.3 Participatory risk management
Risk management, by involving all stakeholders, will help overcome existing knowledge
and information gaps and issues relating to uncertainties by providing opportunities to
merge scientific information with local experience and traditional knowledge. It will also
help to strengthen the social and political bases of decisions and policies implemented,
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besides greater understanding of the risks and better implementation and management
of response strategies.
6.2.4 Thematic areas
The SAPCC will focus on nine thematic areas that have been identified under the aegis
of the Department of Climate Change, with technical representatives from State
Government Departments, reputed research institutes, International Development
Organizations and NGOs. The nine thematic groups are largely in consonance
with the National Action Plan on Climate
Figure 30: Nine thematic groups that
Change and addresses key priorities of the addresses key priorities of the State
State. However, the Gujarat SAPCC, in many
ways, goes beyond what has been proposed
under the National Missions of the NAPCC, Agriculture
and addresses key issues of health, sea level
rise and coastal infrastructure, vulnerable Water Resources
communities and green jobs.
For each of the thematic areas identified, this Forest& biodiversity

section looks into the initiatives taken by the
Government of Gujarat, in line with the objectives Health
of the eight Missions of the National Action Plan
of Climate Change, to address the challenges Urban development
and build upon the opportunities likely to be faced
by vulnerable sectors. The key strategies and
Renewable Energy
options have been identified following a multi-
track approach, with a focus on: &Energy Efficiency
• Research and development Vulnerable Communities

• Institutional strengthening and infrastructure
development/technology development, Sea Level Rise&
demonstration, and deployment CoastalInfrastructure
• Policy support
• Capacity building Green jobs
The identified thematic areas can be broadly

categorized into:
• Sectoral themes such as water, forest and biodiversity, agriculture, urban

development, health and;
• Cross-cutting themes including renewable energy and energy efficiency, vulnerable
communities, sea level rise and coastal infrastructure, green jobs.
In addition to the above, there are certain aspects which act as enablers to achieve the
mitigation and adaptation targets.
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Sectoral Themes
7.0 Agriculture
Since last few years, the agricultural output has increased at an annual rate of 11% in
Gujarat, which is a commendablegrowth in this sector. Keeping in mind, the
vulnerabilities of this sector it is important to frame strategies that take into account the
critical role played by this sector.
7.1 Strategies for Sustainable Agriculture
Agriculture is going to play a critical role over the next decade when Gujarat is
expected to continue with rapid economic growth. It is a sector that continues to
provide sustenance for over half the population in the State. With further growth there
could be additional demands on the sector not only in terms of livelihoods but also
address concerns relating to food security.
Given the anticipated impacts of future climate variability and change in this critical
sector, the SAPCC advocates a holistic approach that would not only address specific
vulnerabilities but also meet the wider range of sustainability concerns relating to
Agriculture in Gujarat.
It is worth noting that at the National Level the National Mission on Sustainable
Agriculture under the NAPCC advocates a similar approach with a focus on four thrust
areas:
1. Dry land Agriculture;
2. Biotechnology;
3. Access to Information; and
4. Risk Management.
A large number of initiatives are being taken by the Central governent through the
National Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA).National Initiative on Climate
Resilient Agriculture (NICRA) is a network project of the Indian Council of Agricultural
Research (ICAR), which, aims at helping the National Mission on Sustainable
Agriculture in the domain of climate change adaptation and mitigation measures and
increasing crop productivity. NICRA’s aim is to augment resilience of Indian agriculture
sector to climate change and climate vulnerability through strategic research and
technology demonstration. NICRA covers work for crops, fisheries, livestock, and
natural resource management (NICRA-ICAR, 2014). District Wise Agricultural
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Contingency Plans in Gujarat have been created for each district giving information of
strategies for weather related contingencies like drought, floods etc.
Box 10: National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture
The vision of National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA) is to transform

agriculture into a climate resilient production system, ensuring food security and
protecting land, water, biodiversity and genetic resources for sustainable production
of food. The main objectives of the mission include:
• To enhance agricultural productivity through customized interventions such as

use of bio-technology
• To devise strategic plans at the Agro-Climatic Zone level.
• Expanding Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) networks to the Panchayat level
and linking them to existing insurance mechanisms including Weather Based
Crop insurance Scheme (WBCIS) and National Agriculture Insurance Scheme
(NAIS), to facilitate access to information.
• To promote “laboratory to land” research by creating Model Villages and Model
Farm Units.
• Introduction of suitable crop varieties and farm practices, livestock and manure
management.
• To realize the enormous potential of growth in dry land agriculture through
development of drought and pest resistant crop varieties.
7.2 State initiatives and achievements
Gujarat has adopted a consistent strategy to cope with Climate Changes in different
agro-climatic zones of the State. In each agro-climatic zone, there is one agro-
meteorological field unit providing weather based agro-advisory services to the farmers
of that zone. Infrastructure such as Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) is being
installed at various locations. Agriculture Universities have initiated the creation of a
network of observatories in Gujarat, by installing automatic weather stations at different
research stations, in order to generate online weather information and create a data
bank on climate. Agro-climate based crop planning has been initiated through Soil
Health Card Programme, where cropping systems have been suggested based on the
soil moisture availability index, and helped farmers adopt more remunerative crops,
thereby increasing their incomes.
7.2.1 Addressing uncertainties
The Government of Gujarat has established “Centre for Weather Forecasting and
Climate Change” at Anand, “Centre for Environmental Studies” at Navsari and “Centre
for Agro-advisory services” at Junagadh. These centres are engaged in critical analysis
of weather/climate parameters and their likely impacts on agricultural production.
Research has already been initiated to study impacts of Climate Change on breeding
of heat and photoperiod insensitive crop varieties, erection of poly-houses to create
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controlled environments, thereby increasing yield and reducing population dynamics of

insect pest and diseases etc.
In addition to above mentioned programs, two projects in collaboration with SAC, ISRO
Ahmedabad and IIT Delhi are initiated, under which 40 Automatic Weather Station
(AWS) will be installed in Gujarat, forecasting extended range or seasonal scale
weather which will benefit climate risk management.
7.2.2 Agricultural productivity
The cumulative effect of all these has been drawn of increasing productivity in major
crops of the State despite 0.1oC to 0.9oC average increase in temperatures recorded at
various locations in the State. Agricultural productivity in Gujarat has been higher than
other States, and has been growing at 9.6 per cent per annum. Though there is high
volatility in agricultural growth rates for almost all States in India, the performance of
Gujarat's agriculture is more than thrice the all India figure. International Food Policy
Research Institute in theiryear 2009 document, had specially commended Gujarat's
recent growth in cotton, fruits and vegetables and wheat production.
Figure 31: Performance of Agriculture Sector in Gujarat at constant (2004-05)

Prices (Rs. In crore)
Figure 32: Change in productivityof crops in Gujarat
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7.3 Ongoing initiatives
During the last several years, initiatives have been taken to deal with impacts of global
warming by strengthening of schemes and launching of new programmes. There have
been efforts to promote thermo-insensitive and drought resistance crops like cotton and
castor by providing technological transformation support, training and input subsidy. To
reduce the effects of chemical pollution and promote organic farming, an intensified
integrated pest management approach is being encouraged in the State.
Events like Eight Krushi Mahotsavs have been organized to promote activities like
organic farming wherein a common platform is being provided to farmers, researchers
and agricultural experts. 42 lakh Soil Health cards under Soil Health programme of
the Agricultural department have been distributed which has helped farmers take
accurate action to increase productivity of their land (GoG, 2013, Vibrant Gujarat,
2013) In addition, twenty six crops have been covered under the crop insurance
scheme to provide safeguards against production losses in crops due to natural
calamities, diseases, pests etc. and an amount of
Rs.4240.49 crores was disbursed toward claims to the farmers in the State, for the
year 2011-12. Gujarat ranks first with respect to risk covered, premium income, subsidy
paid, farmers covered and claims paid under National Agricultural Insurance scheme
among implementing States.Kisan Credit cards is another successful initiative taken
up by Gujarat. Flood relief is also available to farmers in case of crop/input losses and
soil erosion.
7.3.1 Animal husbandry and healthcare
The multifaceted programmes of Gujarat Government in animal healthcare and

husbandry have created a transformational impact on the milk economy of the State,
and energized the livelihoods of millions of villages.
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7.3.1.1 Animal hostel
A revolutionary rural empowerment concept envisioned by the formervisionary Chief

Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, is the Animal Hostel. This project, with its unique model
of integration, cooperation and conservation, is a revolutionary step in co-operative
cattle management and conservation of natural resources.
Simply put, an Animal Hostel is a large-scale community facility for milch animals of a
village. The animals are reared scientifically, and managed on a co-operative basis.
Their dung and urine are collected and converted into gobar gas, organic manure and
bio-pesticides.
The facilities in the hostel includes: in-house fodder production and storage, electricity
generation through bio-gas plants, vermi-compost production, milk collection room, in-
house veterinary and breeding services, water harvesting system.
7.3.1.2 Animal health camps (Pashu Aarogya Mela)
Since 2002, the State has embarked upon an intensive, integrated Animal Healthcare
drive, to bring about a massive economic resurgence in its rural economy. As a
comprehensive, institutional effort towards collective animal healthcare, month-long
Animal Health Camps, or Pashu Arogya Mela/s, are conducted every year post-
monsoon.
At these camps, specialized animal health care services, breeding facilities and
extension activities are offered to rural livestock-owners at their doorsteps. More than
25,000 such health camps have been organized so far, with the active involvement of
dairy co-operatives, local bodies and public participation.
Table 22: Number of villages and activities in Gujarat
Activity 02-03 03- 04- 05- 06- 07- 08- 09- 10- 12-13
04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11
No of 2336 266 3139 3134 3088 300 2811 2891 2750 5289
Camps 5 9
Villages 10795 847 8965 8665 7439 703 6597 6661 6067 1579
covered 8 8 5
Treatmen 13.63 9.68 10.9 12.0 12.2 9.21 10.5 10.9 11.5 21.54
t Lakh 3 5 3 9 2 0
Vaccinati 6.80 6.49 8.27 6.37 8.62 8.96 7.54 7.51 8.26 46.17
on Lakh
7.3.1.3 Infrastructure for milk procurement and processing
Gujarat produces about 274.36lakh litres of milk per day with annual increasing rate of
5.07%. Of this, about 40per cent is procured by the organized co-operative institutions,
while the remaining marketable surplus goes to unorganized markets.
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As a programmatic effort to bring this surplus milk produce under the organized sector,
there are two districts milk producer union at Porbandar and Jamnagar. The
Government of Gujarat provides assistance to co-operative dairy unions from last four
years, in the form of bulk milk coolers and automatic milk collection systems.
These efforts also ensure clean milk production and procurement with creating more
trust of producers. The chilling capacity is going to increase. The efforts are made by
Government of Gujarat to assist better processing infrastructure in areas like Kutch and
Saurashtra where dairy activities are very poor or not well developed..
The multifarious benefits of setting up bulk milk coolers at the society level includes
spoilage reduction to near-zero, enhanced quality of milk, and better monetary returns
for livestock-owners and Dairy Unions.
7.3.1.4 Gujarat Livestock Development Board
Gujarat is home to indigenous breeds of livestock, such as Gir and Kankrej cows, and
Surti, Mehsani, Jafarabadi and Banni buffaloes. These breeds are renowned worldwide
Box 11: Approach to SAPCC Priorities for 2014-2019
Impact assessments in the sector at different levels of food system
Agriculture risk management based on effective surveillance and management
Strengthening extension services with focus on private sector and community
participation
Building resilience in agro ecosystems through resource efficient technologies
and practices
for their milk potential, resistant to drought conditions, fodder scarcity and starvation.
These breeds are known for their consistent production and regular calving under heat
stress and poor nutrition. Through strategic breeding of these animals, this potential is
optimally utilized.
The Gujarat Livestock Development Board (GLDB) is engaged in conservation of

domestic breeds of region through selective breeding and selection of elite animal and
propagation of genetic material. For that GLDB works as nodal agency for
implementation of National project on Cattle and Buffalo Breedingin the State It also
works in co-operation with other breeding agencies like National Dairy Development
Board (NDDB), co-operative working under Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing
Federation (GCMMF), Department of Animal Husbandry, some of the Gaushalas and
Panjrapol. Through these efforts and co-operation, GLDB harvest best germ plasma
available in the field and tries to conserve that germplasm through semen storage and
effective breeding strategies.
Under National project on Cattle and Buffalo Breeding, GLDB has initiated Bull
production programme to get best germplasma in the field and to use bulls for semen
production.In that direction, in June 2010, GLDB set up State-of-the-art, certified
Frozen Semen Production and Training Institute at Patan.
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GLDB is in the process of establishing Embryo Transfer Project at Varudi, Amreli which
will be a novel project to harvest and conserve embryos available with best genetic
material. GLDB has contributed to establishment of Artificial Insemination infrastructure
in remote areas. 632 functional AI Centres have been created with 400 more in the
pipeline in remote areas.
GLDB also maintains Cattle breeding farms to conserve indigenous germ plasma. They
are also working to establish Bull mother farm for selection of elite animals of
indigenous breeds along with establishment of new Frozen Semen station to mitigate
the adverse impacts of climate change and disease outbreak.
7.4 Key Strategies
Given the vulnerability of this sector, it is important to build on initiatives and

opportunities that not only enhance the mitigation options but also tap the adaptation
opportunities. T the strategies should also focus on research and development in this
sector, including detailed impact studies, infrastructure development through setting up
innovative ideas like animal hostels, through policy support and capacity building.
7.4.1 Research and development
Forecasting of
impact of global warming on agricultural crops is necessary to taking
appropriate action. Farmers can be advised for timely and frequent
application of irrigation and use of sprinkler irrigation systems to maintain
microclimate near the plant canopy. Aspects of global warming and its
effects on crops/agriculture requires thorough study at research institutes
and following actions can be initiated as long term strategy on basis of
findings:
Development
and recommendation of new cropping pattern taking into consideration
the climatic changes of that area.
• Development
of thermo insensitive and drought resistant varieties of crops.
• Development
and recommendation of new packages of crop practices.
• Vigilance
systems can be developed for monitoring of emerging pests and
diseases.
• Intensifying
IPM approach in plant protection in order to decrease cost of plant
protection and reduce environment pollution.
Generic
information about weather has to be translated into location-specific land-
use advice, based on cropping patterns and water availability. A focused
and integrated research and development program for agro-climatology
needs to be developed with climate forecasts and cropping system models
for improved farm decision-making to produce optimal yields.
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Research on
strengthening pest forecasting models could emerge as efficient tool to
forecast changes in pest patterns, in advance. Providing site-specific
weather data to manage pests and diseases where terrain varies, since
elevation, slope, and aspect all strongly affect local temperature, rainfall,
and other factors that are used to run predictive pest models. Such site-
specific data and model predictions are needed to help farmers to make
better decisions on pest management.
Developing
genotypes tolerant to biotic and abiotic stresses such as drought, high
temperature, submergence, saline conditions and pest and disease
challenges under Climate Change
A study on the need of change in the cropping pattern by the farmers in the
various agro climatic zones, on the basis of the study of the rainfall data of
the last ten years, shall be undertaken.
7.4.2 Institutional strengthening and infrastructure development
The Government is establishing automatic weather stations and ARG at the sub-
district level to facilitate understanding of real time weather and other inputs on
production of important commodities at national as well as international level. This
can also provide complete technical back up support to the farmers to develop
precision farming models, which can be replicated on a large scale.
Penetration of
technologies such as micro-propagation techniques, integrated nutrient,
water and pest management, organic farming, immuno-diagnostic
techniques for detection of diseases to improve the productivity of
horticultural crops.
Building
market information, intelligence and forecasting system for farmers.
To safeguard
the animal population from the impacts of Climate Change, a consolidated
and long term strategy can be planned. Animal Husbandry largely depends
on agriculture for its survival; hence to safeguard animals, efforts have to be
made to address its agricultural parameters simultaneously. The
multifaceted efforts could be as follows:
• Surveillance of
disease patterns and monitoring climatic changes could provide
valuable time to tackle forthcoming health disasters; and
• Strengthening
the animal disease diagnosis facilities. These concepts are being
promoted through setting up Animal Hostels, but they need to be
propagated further.
Developing new generation treatments, vaccines as well as
pesticides.
Providing specific recommendations for nutritional modifications for
dairy animals to minimize production loss associated with heat stress.
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Integrating developments in biotechnology into current and future

needs of animal husbandry sector with regard to feed, fodder and animal
breeding. Developing biotech based fodder that release less methane.
7.4.3 Policy support
Strengthening
existing risk cover mechanism under National Agriculture Insurance
Scheme. Reducing the unit of ‘area insured’ to a smaller level for example,
the level of village in the case of large villages and to cluster of villages in
the case of small villages in order to capture the true variability that exists
within large administrative units in terms of the risk and the impact of risks
on crop yield. Extending the insurance to cover pre-sowing and post-harvest
losses as well. The coverage of Farmers Income Insurance Scheme and
Farmers Accident Insurance Scheme should be extended to all districts of
the State.
Encouraging
Public-Private Partnership model in agricultural risk management.
Increasing Government support to private sector players can promote
involvement of private sector in agriculture, increase aggregate insurance
coverage and improve viability of the insurance schemes over time.
Gujarat has a
Soil Health Card programme under which a soil health card will be provided
to each farmer. This will serve as a means for agri-scientists to reach out to
individual farmers and provide expertise for enhancing agriculture
productivity. This can also suggest the cropping patterns that should be
adopted based on findings of the climate modeling studies.
Strengthening
Surveillance systems for pests and diseases and streamlining the flow of
information of pest surveillance and livestock diseases to reduce response
time between detection and action to manage and prevent pests and
diseases.
Gujarat has
drought prone areas and arid areas cover more than 50 % of State. In
addition soil erosion is increasing due to advancement of desert land,
deforestation. Participatory Irrigation Management (PIM) by democratically
organized water user associations empowered to set and collect water
charges, and retain a substantial part of the collectionto help maintain field
channels, expand irrigated area, distribute water equitably and provide the
tail enders their just share of water. Also increasing the net irrigated area by
creating check dams, KhetTalavadis and other major and medium irrigation
structures.Gujarat has already brought more than 4,42,000 ha of land under
PIM and is expanding further. Watershed management, rainwater
harvesting, and ground water recharge can help augment water availability
in rainfed areas. Micro-irrigation is also important to improve water use
efficiency. Building structures for water management and managing them
provides immediate opportunities for employment generation in rural areas.
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Irrigation
efficiencies need to be improved by stressing on drip, sprinkler irrigation
techniques in place of channel irrigation.
Wherever
micro-irrigation system cannot be used, efforts need to be made for use of
pre-fabricated water conveyance system and adoption of ridge & furrow
method of irrigation, raised bed method of farming, field bunding and
leveling etc.
Adopting
mixed cropping and agro forestry practices help retain soil moisture and
help reduce dependency on irrigation.
Synergizing
the existing efforts of various Ministries/Agencies with new ones, to create a
data base with advisory for farmers to effectively manage the risks
accentuated by Climate Change.
Implementing
region-specific contingency plans based on vulnerability and risk scenarios.
Establishment
of gene-banks for local breeds and ex–situ especially, in-vitro conservation
needs to be considered as an important component of a broad-based
strategy to conserve critical adaptive genes and genetic traits.
Establishing
AWS & ARG at the sub-district level to facilitate understanding of real time
weather and other inputs on production of important commodities at national
as well as international level. This can also provide complete technical back
up support to the farmers to develop precision farming models, which can
be replicated on a large scale.
Provide
incentives to industries to enhance production of bio pesticides to increase
their availability.
Penetration of
technologies such as micro-propagation techniques, integrated nutrient,
water and pest management, organic farming, immune-diagnostic
techniques for detection of diseases to improve the productivity of
horticultural crops.
Building
market information, intelligence and forecasting system for farmers.
Gujarat has
Strong Agri Marketing system, Agro based Industries & Co-operatives
Strengthening climate resilient post-harvest management, storage and
marketing and distribution systems can help increase revenue.
Introduce
certification zoning systems, pesticide-free zones, and organic production
zones to facilitate high value exports from the State. The testing laboratories
being set-up with Gujarat Agriculture Universities for certification of Organic
Product can help in the process.
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7.3.4 Capacity building
To overcome
uncertainties associated with climate modeling studies, synergizing
meteorological seasonal climate forecasts with indigenous knowledge
based seasonal forecasts. Climate information needs to be translated into
diverse outcomes and comprehensive frameworks needs to be developed
to answer some of the ‘what if’ questions faced by the farmers thereby
empowering the farmers for effective decision making.
Courses on
agri-business development and agri-clinics can help graduates generate
self-employment opportunities by providing specialized extension services
to the farmers. Another area of focus should be on building technical
capacity of farmers on use of Information and Communication Technology
(ICT) and Resource Conservation Technologies (RCTs).
Expanding the
extension services in the State to build adequate capacity to provide
relevant and timely information to farmers to make appropriate choices.
Organizing short-term courses for extension workers to help them
understand the emerging challenges of Climate Change and ways of
effective communication to the farmers.
Engaging the
private sector to supplement public extension services. Privatization of
agricultural extension system should not be seen as an alternative to public
extension system. Public sector has got a comparative advantage in
disseminating location specific, system based and sustainable technologies.
The private sector will have a greater success in the technology and
commercial aspects, input supply and other technical services.
Gujarat has a
strong telecommunication network and all talukas are connected. Private
sector players can be engaged for supplying information on agriculture
inputs, issue advisories, suggest good practices etc. to the farmers.
Organizing
group-based informal education approaches that enhance community
ownership, sustainability and adaptability of adaptation strategies. Using
existing platforms such as the GSWAN network to reach out to the villages
for communicating Climate Change risks and adaptation measures.
Strengthening
Integrated Pest Management programmes that effectively integrate
community-based field activities, policy, extension and research. Up-scaling
field projects and demonstrations, to help farmers gain a practical
understanding of pest management practices and application in their own
farms, while reducing costs and allow for farmer-to-farmer diffusion.
Capitalize on
the outreach and penetration of Self Help Groups (SHGs) and other
Farmers Groups to increase the awareness and acceptance of crop
insurance in India. These groups can also play a role for distribution and
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post-sales service delivery, developing food and forage banks to manage

scarcity during projected increased periods of drought and floods.
Agriculture
Universities in the State and can help organizing distance education
programmes and production of farm literature.
To overcome
the lack of expertise with sound technical background in climate science
and its implications on the agricultural sector, training centres need to
upgraded/established under Department of Agriculture. Regular trainings
should be organized for farmers and elected Panchayat members for taking
up an advisory role for better management of floods, droughts and varying
precipitation patterns.
Based on the strategies that have focused on understanding the detailed impact of
climate change on crops, along with the focus on adaptation to changing climate, a
brief list of activities have been obtained from relevant Department/s to indicate the
focus on implementing these strategies discussed in the previous section. The
estimated cost of activities is based on rough estimates.
Programme of Action for Agriculture
Sr. Depart Activity Project Objective Estima Proj Outcomes

No ment/ ted ect
. Office Budget dura
Name in tion
Crore
Rs.
1 Agricul To establish To improve production and 4.15 1 Improved animal
ture & Animal productivity of the animals husbandry
Co- Hostels in and thereby farmers' activities through
operati various income by establishing 25 disease
on districts of Animal Hostels monitoring and
Depart Gujarat providing
ment adequate care to
animals
2 Irrigation Efficient use of resources 4.5 1 To increase
development including water/ fertilizer, productivity of
through Micro limiting evaporation, crops through
Irrigation reducing weed growth, and optimal resource
Systems making cultivation possible use
during and immediately
after an irrigation cycle by
setting up approx. 900
micro-irrigation units in an
area of around 900 acres
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3 Climate Implementing State's and 575 5 Soil and water

Change Central's agriculture conservation,
proofing schemes on watershed improve
through in situ basins for in situ soil & depleting ground
Soil & water moisture conservation as water tables and
conservation, well as to control soil increase
water erosion, and to increase productivity
harvesting to ground water tables by
increase the adopting technology for
fertility, harvesting rain water
productivity through water harvesting
and prosperity structures etc. in 2.87 lakh
of Arid & hectare area in 14 districts
Semi Arid
districts of
State
4 Soil Health To safeguard the soil 0.12 1 Promotion of
Improvement health and improve the organic farming
through use quality of crop products by
of using natural products like
Biofertilizers Biofertilizers in a total of
67,150 acre area will be
covered across Gujarat.
5 Depart Research on Classify land areas and 1.2 2 Holistic
ment “Climate their suitability for growth understanding of
of Change of crops based on climate change
Climat Implications threshold analysis impacts on crops
e on Crop specifically in the context in Gujarat and
Chang Growth in of warmer temperatures; formulate
e Gujarat” Quantify the impacts of appropriate
predicted climate change policies against
on agricultural output for adverse impacts
the following crops –
wheat, groundnut and
cotton;
Total 584.97
* - Figures are based on primary and rough estimates
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8.0 Water Resources

Gujarat state has highly skewed spatial water distribution owing to its physiographic
features wherein while, 30% area possess 70% water resources, the other 70% has
only 30% water resource. Besides lopsided water distribution, Gujarat faces a threat of
rapid declination of the groundwater tables, due to inadequate management of the
sources as well. Also, coastal areas of Kutch and Saurashtra, as noted earlier, have
widespread saline area making them unsuitable for groundwater development. The
state has suffered severe droughts throughout its past. All these factors have often
created a situation of water crisis in the state. Consequently, such severe water scarcity
situation can lead to substantial loss of income, threatened household food security and
forced large-scale migration to other areas. Climate change can exacerbate these
conditions, hence water forms a major thematic area in the action plan.
8.1 Strategies for management of water resources
The State of Gujarat is traditionally prone to water scarcity situations. Although the
Government of Gujarat has taken several progressive measures for ensuring water
security in the State, the intensity and return period of major drought, often correlated
to the Climate Change impacts, have the potential to undermine these efforts.
Groundwater resources and their long-term replenishment are also controlled by
long-term climate conditions. Therefore it is essential to consider Climate Change
externalities while designing and implementing water conservation and management
plans.
In order to enable sustainable management of water, as suggested in National

Water Mission, the Government of Gujarat aims to ensure more equitable
distribution of water across the State.
Box 12: National Water Mission
The focus of National Water Mission is on water conservation and integrated water
resources development and management for ensuring its more equitable distribution
both across and within States. Main objectives of the mission are –
Climate Change impact assessment on water resources and provision of water
data base in public domain
Promotion of citizen and state action for water conservation, augmentation and
preservation; focused attention to over-exploited areas
Increasing water use efficiency at least by 20% by 2012
Promotion of basin level integrated water resources management
8.2 States initiatives and achievements
Before 2001, drinking water security had posed serious threat to human and cattle lives
in Gujarat State. In 2001, an ambitious strategy was developed for creating a
'Statewide Drinking Water Grid’ for bulk water transmission from sustainable surface
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water resources to water scarce and poor water quality habitations. Based on this,
large scale infrastructure has been created which includes bulk pipelines, distribution
pipelines, hydraulic structures, storage sumps and high ground level reservoirs. Along
with this 181water filtration and treatment plants have been promoted with a total
capacity of 2900 million liters perday. The backbone of the Grid is the Sardar Sarovar
Dam, built on river Narmada. It not only provides fresh surface water for irrigation to
several regions of Gujarat but also provides water for drinking purposes.The Sardar
Sarovar Canal-based Water Supply scheme has been named as the largest
engineering intervention in India’s rural water supply sector. Gujarat water supply
grid constitutes the lengthiest distribution pipeline network for the supply of drinking
water the world has ever seen. To date, no other single scheme for drinking water
supply in the world covers as vast of an area or reaches as many beneficiaries as the
Statewide Water Grid.
The Statewide Water Grid comprises of 387 projects making inter-basin water transfers
from sustainable surface or ground water sources to water scarce and quality-affected
areas. The network consists of Sardar Sarovar Canal, Sujalam Sufalam Yojana for river
inter-linkages and approximately 179 Rural Regional Water Supply Schemes. The
Statewide Water Grid aims to connect 75% of Gujarat’s population i.e. nearly 47 million
people across 15,009 villages and 145 towns, some of them being 700 km away from
the command area.
To reach the scorched regions of Saurashtra, Kachchh, Central & North Gujarat, 51 bulk
pipeline projects oversee the construction of 3,250 km of bulk water transmission mains
and nearly 120,769 km of pipelines and engineering works (distribution network). Out of
this, 2,654 km mains have already been built through 37 completed projects (as of
December 2013). The piped water from the Grid has supplemented the amount of water
drawn from local sources to meet the demands of communities. At the same time as
new pipes are added to the system, existing drinking water sources are strengthened in
an effort to develop dual supply systems to use water conjunctively and reduce a
village’s sole reliance on local water sources.
The construction of Grid has not only solved the endemic issue of drinking water
availability issues in Gujarat, but has also helped overcome several issues including
extensive ground water extraction leading to plummeting ground water tables, water
quality issues including high level of fluoride content in the water, drudgery of collection
of water from far off sources and increased sustainability and dependability on surface
water sources. The grid has had immense impact on education of women and girls in
particular, reducing migration of rural population, women empowerment and gender
equality and enhanced the quality of life both for rural and urban population.
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Figure 33: Reduction in Number of Tubewells Dug each year in Gujarat
Annual tanker supply required in 3961 villages in 2002-03 has been brought down to
296 in 2011-12, creating substantial savings. Although in the year 2012-13 and 2013-
14, the number of villages requiring tanker water supply increased to 466 and 854
respectively, but this was due to severe drought conditions that existed in the state.
Number of fluoride affected habitations has reduced from 4187 in 2003 to 987 in a
recent survey.
Reduction in tubewell pumping has resulted in an estimated 72.09 million units

of electricity being conserved per annum resulting in saving of about 16,076 tCO2
emissions per annum, conservatively estimated. Figure 36 above, depicts the
reduction in number of tubewells installed.
Socio-economic benefits have fallen in place due to availability of water at the

doorsteps. Female participation in the labor market has increased as they no longer
have to traverse long distances. Women have successfully been involved in
microenterprise projects which enable them to obtain extra income for their
livelihood.
8.2.1 Micro-irrigation in Gujarat
The micro-irrigation system was introduced in the State through Gujarat Green
Revolution Company Limited since 2005-06. Total area covered under micro irrigation
is 6,00,000ha involving 3,70,964beneficiaries’ farmers. Adoption of micro irrigation
system not only conserves water, but also conserves energy fertilizers, reduces labour
cost leading to reduced cost of cultivation and increase in productivity. Large scale
people’s participation was involved in creation of massive micro water harvesting
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structure network leading to strengthening the adaptive capabilities of millions of

people in Gujarat to withstand Climate Shocks. A total of 5,63,000check dams, village
ponds / tanks, village talavadi and Boribandh have been created in last few years
providing direct benefit to over 13 million people in rural Gujarat.
The unique, Sardar Patel Participatory Water Conservation Project (SPPWCP)

programme was well recognized in the UNDP Human development report of 2007 as a
replicable example of Climate Change adaptation measure. The report states,
“Beyond disaster prevention, the development of community-based infrastructure for
water harvesting can reduce vulnerability and empower people to cope with Climate
risks. Partnerships between communities and local governments in India States such
as Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat provide examples of what can be achieved.”
The average depletion of water levels in North Gujarat before the launch of this
massive programme was around 3 m per year which by now would have cumulatively
increased by almost 20-25 meters leading to sharp rise in electric consumption for
drawl of ground water. But there has been a reported average, water level rise of about
4 m during last couple of years. Figure 37depicts the ground water development for the
state of Gujarat. The entire state is divided into the categories of safe, semi-critical,
critical, over exploited (OE) and saline. The category of “safe” indicates that the ground
water development was less than or equal to 70% (no falling trends of water level),
“semi-critical” indicated 70-90% ground water development showing a falling trend in
water table either pre or post monsoon, “critical” indicated 90-100% of ground water
development, showing a falling trend both pre and post monsoon, “overexploited”
indicated more than 100% ground water development and saline indicated a total
dissolved salts (TDS) of more than 2500 parts per million (ppm).
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Figure 34: Ground water Development for the state of Gujarat
Source: Dynamic Ground Water Sources of Gujarat State, 2014
Various steps have been taken by the Government of Gujarat for improving irrigation
efficiency and reducing transmission and evaporation losses in State irrigation network.
The Water Resources Department of Government of Gujarat has implemented
Participation Irrigation Management (PIM) in command area. Up till now 4,42,000ha
area is covered under PIM. The Government is actively considering implementing
Pressurized Irrigation Network System (PINS) in the command area for implementing
Drip/Sprinkler water saving methods. This methodology when fully implemented will
appreciably bring the vast area of canal network under irrigation and also bring down
transmission, evaporation and conveyance losses which are found to be appreciable at
field level. On a macro level irrigation efficiency has been improved by bringing around
10,42,000ha of land under Participatory Irrigation Management and much more under
micro irrigation leading to yield increase along with water, fertilizer, labour and energy
savings. It has been estimated that around 74.1 million unit energy has been saved in
just one year due to adoption of micro irrigation by Gujarat Green Revolution Company
– a body specially created for the purpose.
The canal systems which have deteriorated over time were improved by ERM works
(Extension, Renovation and Modernization). These works have effectively reduced
losses in the system and increased present irrigation area to about 25 per cent.
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8.3 Innovative climate change projects
8.3.1 Sardar Sarovar Project
The Sardar Sarovar Project of Gujarat has been a very vital project for long term water
and energy security in the State. Diversion of Narmada waters to main canal of the
project, which is world’s largest lined irrigation canal, was 705 MCM in 2001 and
increased to 6,194 MCM in
Figure 35: Consumption pattern of electricity in Gujarat
2004. The command area State
covers an extent of around
5,00,000 ha which has
observed interlinking of many
rivers by the interbasin transfer
of Narmada water using Sardar
Sarovar Canal Network.
Narmada water has been
released in the dry beds of
Heran, Orsang, Karad,
Dhadhar, Mahi, Saidak, Mohar,
Sabarmati and Saraswati
rivers. The ecology and water
quality of these rivers have
drastically improved. In
addition to this, 700 village
tanks have also been filled with Narmada water as part of drought management
measure. The hydropower generation commenced in Sardar Sarovar Project since
August 2004, and has resulted in generation of 32,593 million units of electricity till
March 2014. This has led to intangible benefits in terms of virtual savings of around
53,432 million units of electricity that would have been otherwise consumed to draw
this amount of water from ground water resources. Thus the electricity consumption for
agriculture in the State has drastically reduced from 45.12 to 21.1 per cent of the total
consumption in the State (during 2000-01 to 2008-09). The role of Sardar Sarovar
Project is impressive in both adaptation and mitigation of Climate Change. Due to this
water and energy linkages, 15,459 million tCO2 is saved.
SSNNL has planned and invited EPC tender to develop a Canal Based Small Hydro
Power Projects on Narmada Canals (i.e. SBC,MBC, VBC) having total potential of
85.46MW. It has also planned to develop a Canal Based Micro Hydel Power Plant on
various Narmada canals having total potential of 13 MW. It is developing a 10 MW
canal top solar Power project on Vadodara Branch canal, which is under progress. It
has already installed 1 MW canal top power project on Sanand Branch canal. It has
installed 10 KW wind Solar Hybrid Power plant for domestic purpose at Kevadia colony
for which a grant of Rs. 15.30 crores from MNRE, GoI was awarded to SSNNL. In FY
2013-2014, 1450 MW SSHEP has put forth record generation of green power of 5877
MUs, which is 178% higher than planned generation.
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8.3.2 Panam canal
Another very interesting example of environment friendly solutions with lesser carbon
footprints is the Panam High Level Canal Project. Panam dam was constructed in
1978, to meet the irrigation needs of around 2,00,000 people. But since its inception
the project suffered from one major deficiency. Panam main canal, a 100 km long
contour canal, served the command area only on its right side while the farmers on the
higher grounds of this command area were deprived of irrigation due to difficult and
inconvenient topography.
There were two alternative solutions to the problem; one was to dig an open canal
(channel) which necessitated acquisition of reserved forest lands, felling of trees and
human displacement, besides the consumption of 3.23 million liter fossil fuel (diesel) for
excavators and other machinery. The second alternative was lifting of water from the
reservoir through pumping by laying down pipelines and constructing pumping stations
which would have required 2000 MW power which in turn would have led to additional
emission of 3.57 million tCO2 every year.
Figure 36: Panam dam constructed in 1978
Considering very high carbon footprints, human displacement and direct loss of forest
lands, a third alternative has been put in place. The State constructed its first and
foremost irrigation water carrying tunnel, irrigating 18,000 ha of land and benefiting
around 1,25,000 people at no extra submergence and no displacement of persons. As
an additional advantage, nearby wells, around 60 village tanks and 500 check dams
are being interlinked for recharge with the canal work providing irrigation in an
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additional area of 2000 ha. This was a conscious choice taken by Gujarat which is a
low carbon intensive development alternative.
8.3.3 Sabarmati River Front Project
For years, the Sabarmati riverfront in Ahmedabad remained neglected and

characterized by unimaginative and unplanned development. It's potential to provide
city level social infrastructure and recreation facilities was untapped. Sewage
contaminated the storm water out-falls and the dumping of industrial waste posed a
major health and environmental hazard. Though the riverbank and bed provided a
place to stay and source of livelihood for many poor citizens, the riverbank slums have
been disastrously flood prone and lacked basic infrastructure services. The slums
located along the riverbed have always been a major impediment to efficient
management of monsoon floods in the river.
Sabarmati River was revived by transferring Narmada waters which made the river
independent of the vagaries of nature. Once this was made possible, the riverfront is
now being converted into a major asset which would improve the quality of
environment and life in Ahmedabad, improve the efficiency of its infrastructure,
conserve the places of heritage importance, and create an opportunity for
recreation/hospitality industry. The ambitious project involves creating embankments
on both sides and developing a 10.6 kilometers stretch of river front which will not only
provide protection against 5,00,000cusecflood eliminating annual flooding of low lying
areas but also prevent evacuation of nearly 10,000 Slum Households, located on
Riverbanks as well as the village on downstream of Vasna Barrage and prevent
scouring of farm land. This is a unique project with both mitigation and adaptation
connotations.
8.3.4 Kalpasar project
The Kalpasar Project is proposed to be the World’s largest man-made fresh water
reservoir. It envisages building a dam across the Gulf of Khambhat for generating tidal
power and for establishing a huge reservoir for fresh water for irrigation, drinking and
industrial purposes. A 30 km long dam would be constructed for closure of the Gulf of
Khambhat. The project will store about 10000 Mm3 of water from the rivers flowing into
the Gulf of Khambhat.
Benefits expected from the project are:
Water supply of about 1400Mm3 for domestic and industrial purpose.

Reduction in salinity ingress in Saurashtra coastal area
Improvement in groundwater quality in about 7,00,000 ha catchment area of
surrounding six districts
Irrigation facility to serve about 1 million ha command area of coastal Saurashtra
Development of fresh water fisheries
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Figure 37: Unique project with both mitigation and adaptationconnotations
8.4 Community participation & empowerment of Panchayat

Raj Institutions by WASMO
Gujarat State has taken up reform process and extensive community engagement in a
mission mode approach by creating a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) in the form of
Water and Sanitation Management Organization (WASMO). Water and Sanitation
Management Organisation (WASMO) was established by the Government of Gujarat in
May 2002, with a mandate to promote decentralization in the rural drinking water and
sanitation sector. The rural community is the central focus of WASMO’s decentralized
approach.The objective of the organization was to bring a paradigm shift in the role of
governance from provider to facilitator by empowering village level institutions through
extensive capacity building and proactive facilitation.
WASMO has adopted a bottom-up approach in consonance with the spirit of the 73rd
amendment of the Indian Constitution. It performs the role of facilitator by
empowerment and capacity building of the Panchayati Raj Institutions at the grassroots
level. Processes for social mobilization continue to win, build and maintain trust among
the people, which is essential to obtain their willingness to join the programme and
share the partial cost of work. WASMO's strategy includes development and
strengthening of local institutions (Pani Samiti), active involvement and participation of
communities.It entrusts the community with powers to plan, design, own and manage
their own water supply systems. WASMO has strong faith in the principle that a sense
of 'Ownership and Pride' is to be instilled among the community. It undertakes the
following activities:
Creating institutions at the village level and strengthening them through

continuous capacity building
Focus on IEC and software activities before taking up development of
infrastructure for water supply
Putting entire programme in public domain for seeking strong citizens'
engagement
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Social process based demand driven programme implementation for achieving

stakeholder engagement, gaining public confidence, strong community leadership,
accountability and efficient service delivery
Building strong partnerships based on transparency and trust with community,
community institutions and NGOs.
The Pani Samitis work under the overall guidance of Gram Sabha for project
formulation, implementation and further operation and maintenance of the intra- villages’
infrastructure for service delivery up to house hold level. The Pani Samitis have worked
commendably well and the water delivery infrastructure is being maintained with a great
ownership feeling and user charges are collected for the maintenance of water supply.
As on May 2014, as many as 18,185 Pani Samitis have been formed which are
the main local institutions for village level water management.
About 76.84% of people in Gujarat have access to household tap water
connections.
A water quality team has been formed in 16,676 villages and 14,216 more have
been equipped with water quality testing kits.
WASMO’s innovation has led to scaling up of reform processes to cover entire State.
WASMO has also been able to institutionalize the rural water quality monitoring and
surveillance programme. WASMO’s innovation by Government of Gujarat has emerged
as a model for learning and exchange and is now seen as a model in the sector, which
is influencing policy initiatives in the water sector at the country level.
Besides WASMO, ‘Nirmal Gujarat’ is a initiative of Gujarat government for

achieving total sanitation facilities in rural and urban areas of Gujarat. It aims at
improving sanitation and hygiene so that a clean environment can be created
while supporting overall development in the state.
8.5 Key initiatives by the Government of Gujarat
Some of the important measures taken by the State Government (GoG, 2011) towards
achieving water security and improving the quality of water are listed below:
8.5.1 Water resource/watershed development
Construction of 5,63,000 Water Conservation Structuresacross Gujarat changed

the ground water scenario. The average ground water level in May 1998 to 2002
was 2.51 m, there was 4.01 m rise in average ground water level during May 2003
to May 2007. Around 4,42,000 ha.Of land have been covered under Participatory
Irrigation Management leading to increase in crop yield and savings in water,
fertilizer, labour and energy. It has been estimated that about 74.1 M kwh energy
has been saved in just year due to adoption of drip irrigation by Gujarat Green
Revolution Company (Shete, 2010).
Interlinking of Heran, Orsang, Karad, Dhadhar, Mahi, Saidak, Mohar, Shedhi,
Watrak, Meshwo, Khari, Sabarmati and Saraswati rivers by interbasin transfer of
Narmada waters using the Sardar Sarovar Canal Project has not only improved
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the water availability but also led to huge savings in the power consumption in
drawing groundwater. The power savings were in the range of 20-25 per cent
(Shete 2010).
The ultimate irrigation potential through the surface water is estimated at 39.40
lakh ha which includes 17.92 lakh ha through Sardar Sarovar (Narmada) Project.
Similarly, in respect of ground water resources, it is estimated at about 25.48 lakh
ha. Total ultimate irrigation potential through surface & ground water is estimated
to be 64.88lakh ha. The total irrigation potential of surface water created upto June
2012 was 32.48 lakh ha whereas maximum utilisation was 23.81 lakh ha.
A Watershed Development programme is being implemented with the objective
of drought proofing, agriculture growth, environment protection and employment
generation. DDP, DPAP, IWDP are the major schemes being implemented under
the watershed programme as per the agro-climatic condition of the 26 districts in
Gujarat. Under these schemes 5590 projects are under execution for the treatment
of 27.95 lakh ha in the State. Up to October, 2010, 2900 projects have been
completed and 19.65 lakh ha of area have been treated under the programme
(GoG, 2011).
8.6 Key Strategies
Basin-wise studies using hydrological and climate models to study the long term
impact of Climate Change on rainfall-runoff processes over river basins
Climate Change scenarios and impact on catchment and rainfall runoff response
in a river basin of different zones of the Gujarat State
Efforts for increasing effectively irrigated area in the State by extension,

renovation and modernization of irrigation schemes and canal systems
Small reservoirs and natural wetlands form the most practical, instant and cost-
effective responses to existing variability and climate-induced water scarcity.
Detailed investigations are needed in case of selecting large dams since they pose
a high risk of flooding. Integrated watershed development, rainwater harvesting
schemes and water conservation is critical.
Improving water ingress in coastal areas by extending water Grid and
undertaking other salinity ingress prevention works
For ensuring water security in coastal and quality affected areas, setting up
plants for desalination of sea water and brackish water
Balancing the water availability in depleted regions and the areas likely to be
affected due to Climate Change by Inter-basin water transfer
Improved agricultural practices that conserve water through increased infiltration
should be promoted. Methods such as organic farming, vermicomposting, choosing
water resistant crops, seed conservation should be encouraged. De-silting of
ponds, bunding of agricultural fields, construction of anicuts and runoff structures
should be given emphasis
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Soil moisture is an important parameter in hydrological cycle and affects

infiltration into groundwater aquifers. Farming practices that retain the right amount
of soil moisture are an important adaptation strategy. Study on such practices is
necessary followed by capacity building of farmers. Improved soil, nutrient and crop
management practices should be adopted for increasing the water productivity of
the crops.
Groundwater banking can help recharging of groundwater using rainwater and
discharge from dams can form a reliable supply in severe drought conditions.
Increasing water productivity is an efficient means of intensifying agricultural
production, improving community resilience and reducing environmental
degradation that aggravates Climate Change. Technologies enhancing water
productivity and wastewater reuse can be solutions.
To address the increased incidences of fluorosis in remote villages, low-cost and
low-maintenance de-fluoridation units should be provided to the households with
training on how to use them
Flood control and storm water measures should be enhanced to solve the
problems arising out of water logging
The Government of Gujarat has been quite efficient in collecting water related data and
establishing a data center. Following studies are recommended to further strengthen
the program.
Addressing the data gaps and stressing on its quality

Analysis of data to obtain trend of past climatic conditions
Preparation of detailed climate scenarios at micro level, and correlating the past
data and future climate projections using sophisticated hydrological and climate
models
Detailed analysis of drought proofing schemes and policy strengthening
Documenting best practices on community actions at various levels
Human and natural systems, will to some degree adapt automatically. Planned
adaptation through policies can supplement them. The adaptation policy should be
formulated after detailed research and should:
Lessen pressure on resources, improve management of environment and

increase welfare of the poor
Focus on development oriented drought mitigation
Utilize drought relief fund on regular development practice
Incorporate future climate scenario in drought proofing plans
The Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority should give emphasis to
community-based disaster mitigation along with planning and investment
Better coordination between Government institutions working in the field of water
management
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Establishing and institutionalizing bodies comprising of representatives from the

community, Government and non-governmental organizations (ex: SETU or Link)
through provision of Government development budget. These institutions can be
equipped with up-to-date climate related information to enable them to build
capacity of local communities on drought preparedness and mitigation
Institutional strengthening and decentralization of water management and
enhancement of water use efficiency and crop productivities.
The Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority should give emphasis to community-
based disaster mitigation, particularly flood and drought related, planning and
investment.
Based on the identified strategies in key areas of research and development, policy
support and institutional strengthening, infrastructure development and capacity building
in water sector, a brief of proposed activities were requested from relevant Departments
in the State. The list of activities is provided in the table below. The estimated budget for
these activities is based on primary and rough estimates.
Programme of Action for Water Resources

Sr Depar Activity Project Objective Budg Pro Outcomes
N tment/ et in ject
o. Office Crore dur
Name Rs.* atio
n
1 Water Participatory Institutional strengthening 300 10 Water resource
Resou Irrigation and decentralization of water management
rces Management management and and soil
Depart enhancement of water use conservation
ment efficiency and crop
productivity
2 Extension, To effectively increase the 1600 10 Increasing
Renovation and irrigated area in the state irrigation
modernization of potential of the
schemes state
3 Water Construction of approx. 4000 2000 10 Conservation of
Conservation checkdams each year in the Water as a
Scheme through State measure
check dams towards climate
construction change
adaptation
4 Water Drought proofing Undertaking drought proofing 5000 5 Assured water
Supply measures for works in the state for approx. availability for
Depart scarcity prone 2000 habitations drinking and
ment areas domestic use
and efficient
service delivery
5 Water and Undertaking extensive audits 800 5 Achieving water
Energy Audit to for water and energy and energy use
be extended in conservation efficiency
the entire state
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N tment/ et in ject
o. Office Crore dur
Name Rs.* atio
n
6 Dug well Construction of approx. 600 4 Decentralized
recharge project 4,00,000 dug wells to ground water
improve ground water recharge and
recharge improvement in
ground water
7 Creation of decentralized rainwater 1600 5 To achieve
Roof-top rain harvesting in approx. water security
water harvesting 40,00,000 Households at household
structures resulting in additional water level
availability, reduction of
energy footprint due to lesser
pumping, groundwater
recharge
8 Water Setting up water Solar pumps-1000; Wind 65 5 Reduction of
Supply pumps based on pumps-500 consumption of
Depart renewable conventional
ment sources of energy for
energy drawing water
9 Project for Desalination through setting 2500 5 To achieve
Desalinization of up 4 desalination plants and water security
Sea water 500 Brackish Water in coastal and
desalination plants. quality affected
areas
10 Inter-basin To balance the water 3500 5 Interlinking of
water transfer to availability in depleted water bodies to
water scarce regions and the areas likely to achieve water
and coastal be affected due to climate security
regions change.
11 Save Water and Carrying out community 50 5 Public
Energy based campaigns for water awareness for
Campaign both and energy awareness reducing water
at State and through carbon footprinting and carbon
village level. footprints.
12 Improving water Extending water Grid and 1000 5 Water security
resources near other salinity ingress in coastal
coastal areas by prevention works regions
extending water
Grid and other
salinity ingress
prevention works
13 Recycling of Waste Water collection, 600 5 Increasing
used water treatment and reuse in 2000 water
villages availability in
the State
through waste
water
management
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N tment/ et in ject
o. Office Crore dur
Name Rs.* atio
n
14 M.S.U Modelling the Analysing the impact of 0.2 1 Water
niversi long term impact climate change, with respect catchment
ty of climate to rainfall and increasing assessment in
change on temperature on the water Karjat river
rainfall-runoff balance and response of basin
processes over catchments.
Karjat river
basin, Gujarat.
15 M.S.U Climate Change To assess the impact of 0.33 2 Modelling and
niversi scenarios and climate change on rainfall projections of
ty impact on pattern, on catchment water
catchment and hydrology; and developing availability in
rainfall runoff rainfall-runoff correlation in various zones
response in a various zones of South of Gujarat
river basin of Gujarat, North Gujarat,
different zones Central Gujarat, Saurashtra
of the Gujarat and Kuchchh region of
State. Gujarat state.
19615.
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Apart from the above mentioned activities, an important aspect of working in

collaboration both inter-state and intra-state for mutual cooperation and understanding
and avoiding duplication of work is also considered worthy. No activity or project could
succeed without allocating clear responsibilities to the stakeholders. Therefore
cooperation is one of the important ideology to be followed by the Government of
Gujarat.
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9.0 Forests and Biodiversity

Gujarat’s forest ecosystems provide both direct and indirect benefits such as watershed
protection, food, fibre, medicines, drinking water, air purification and carbon storage.
Protecting primary forests and restoring managed or degraded forest ecosystems are
vital for reducing anthropogenic emissions and aiding societal adaptation to an
unavoidable Climate Change.
9.1 Strategies for conservation of forests and biodiversity
The natural ecosystems of Gujarat range from wetlands, grasslands and deciduous
forests to deserts. Its coastline shelters diverse coastal ecosystems such as
mangroves, coral reefs, estuaries and mudflats. The Government of Gujarat has
initiated various programmes for maintaining the environmental balance and restoration
of ecosystems by recharging ground water, preventing salinity ingress, conserving
biological diversity, soil conservation etc. These are in consonance with the NAPCC
and the State Government intends to build on these initiatives through the SAPCC.
Box 13: National Mission for a Green India

The Mission acknowledges the role that the forestry sector has in climate mitigation,
food security, water security, biodiversity conservation and livelihood security of forest
dependent communities. The main objectives of the mission include-
• Doubling the area to be taken up for afforestation /eco-restoration in India in
the next 10 years, taking the total area to be afforested or eco-restored to 20
million ha
• Enhancing eco-system services and carbon sinks through afforestation on
degraded forest land in line with the national policy of expanding the forest
and tree cover to 33% of the total land area of the country
• Increasing the GHG removals by India's forests to 6.35% of India's annual
total GHG emissions by the year 2020
• Enhance the resilience of forests/ecosystems by maximizing infiltration,
groundwater recharge, stream and spring flows, biodiversity value,
provisioning of services (fuel wood, fodder, timber, NTFPs, etc.) to help local
communities adapt to climatic variability
9.2 States Initiatives and Achievements
9.2.1 Forest greening schemes
Forest Department has taken up number of initiative to increase the green cover of the
State. There has been a substantial increase in trees in the State. From 2004 to 2009
social afforestation has resulted in an increase of 1.77 crore trees. In the year 2009,
there were 16.16 trees per ha which was 14 trees per ha previously. In 7 districts it has
been observed that number of trees have increased to 30 trees per ha. Wherein Anand
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District tops the list with 68.4 trees per ha followed by Tapi with 64.0 trees per ha,
Gandhinagar with 58.3 trees per ha, Mehsana 51.8 trees/ha, Valsad 35.6 trees/ha,
Surat 35 trees/ha and Kheda 31 trees/ha.
Social Afforestation Scheme has performed well in the State. In the year 2009 -10,
15601 ha of land were targeted to be planted and 100 per cent was achieved by the
Forest department of Gujarat. Under this scheme, afforestation is conducted majorly at
roads, river banks, railway tracks, social and institutional places, land near small tanks
and ponds and other areas. Other than this, in order to encourage afforestation in
private lands, van mahotsav is practiced at a large sale in Gujarat. Under Van mahotsav
saplings and seeds are distributed in order to create awareness amongst people of
Gujarat and increase the green cover of the State. In the year 2010-11, more than 2000
saplings and seeds were distributed in various districts under this scheme. As of 2013-
2014 the cumulative achievementsof Social Forestry works from 1969-70 to 2013-14)
are Strip Plantation (1.04 Lakh ha), Village Forests (1.38 Lakh ha), Private Degraded
Lands (2.68 Lakh ha), Other lands (0.32 Lakh ha) and 501.10 crore plants have been
distributed during Van Mahotsav.(Department of Environment and Forest, 2014)
As per the tree population estimates in 2003 and 2011, number of trees outside forest
increased at annual rate of 29 lakh trees (increased from 25.1 crores in 2003 to 26.9
crores in 2011 and 30.1 crores in 2013). As per State of Forest Report (2011 & 2013),
tree cover and tree density in Gujarat is second highest among the states of India.
Seven districts have tree density over 30 trees/ ha whereas Anand district alone has a
tree density of 68.4 trees/ ha. Average tree density in Gujarat is higher than the average
of India, although major part of Gujarat is in semi arid and arid zone. Against India's tree
cover (TOF) of 2.77% of total geographical area, Gujarat has 4.0% of its geographical
area under tree cover outside forest. Timber and wood production from the TOF is very
impressive in Gujarat and TOF contributes annually about Rs 4,388 crore of Gross
Value Output (GVO) in form of timber. The contribution in terms of NTFP is also
tremendous and yet to be monetarily quantified.(Department of Environment and Forest,
2014).
Forest accounting and certification of projects for CDM is being envisaged, as result of
Sustainable Forest Management and identification of criteria and indicators has been
started in two divisions, i.e. Godhra and Dahod, in the State in association with Indian
Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal. A workshop in this regard was organized by
Forest Department to explore the opportunities of CDM projects. A State level
workshop on designing of Afforestation/Reforestation projects under CDM was
organized in Gandhinagar.
Other initiatives taken up by Forest Department of Gujarat are Biogas/Solar cooker

distribution. Under this scheme solar/biogas cookers are distributed 50 per cent
subsidy. In order to save fuel, Social Afforestation Department has provided improved
heater for crematorium in panchayat which has to be maintained by the respective
panchayats. In order to create awareness amongst public, initiatives like farmer’s
nursery, promoting medicinal plants and others are undertaken.
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9.2.2Urban forestry
Under Urban Forestry, Forest Department has taken up urban plantation works in 139
municipalities in the State and planted up more than 9.43 lakh trees. Urban gardens
have also been created in some of these municipalities. 41 Nakshatra Vans, 64 Rashi
vans and 81 Pachavati Bans, 90 Smruti Vans, 11 Navagrah Vans, 23 Punit Vans, 8
Dhanvantri Vans and 6 Dampatya Vans were also created. Under Nagar Nandan Van,
5.58 Lakh trees have been planted in urban areas.
“Sanskritik Van” is a concept where the Gujarat Forest Department development a

wasteland site as a forest (Van) through public-private partnership. Punit Van,
Mangalaya Van, Tirthankar Van, Harihar Van and Bhakti Van are the examples. These
are available for public awareness and use. The Sanskriti Vans have been established
at 9 different sites up to year 2012.
‘Punit van’ is plantation of trees in capital city of Gandhinagar. Constellation Plantation

is being encouraged under this scheme by Forest Department. A particular plant that
is associated with a definite constellation is planted nurtured and worshipped so that
the ill effects of that particular constellation could be neutralized and over a period of
time get converted into positive influence.
9.2.3Enhancing Mangrove cover in Gujarat
Mangroves forests of Gujarat are significantly prominent on the West Coast of the
country and also have very high conservation value. Special programs are undertaken
in Jamnagar and Kutch districts which have been successful. There has been
establishment of mangrove forest in the Gulf of Cambay. During the current year,
towards the Golden Goal a target of 12,500 ha has been set for mangrove plantation.
As per the report of Forest Survey of India, in Gujarat, the Mangroves forest cover has
continuously been improving.
Out of the 33 districts of the State, the State has 16 coastal districts. However as per
the FSI 2005 report, the mangrove cover 936 km2 is spread rather unevenly over 10
districts only. About 73.53 per cent (707 km2) of the total mangrove forest is located in
the single district of Kutch covering the forests of Kori creek, while 16.02 per cent (150
km2) mangrove forests are distributed in Jamnagar district which covers the mangrove
forests of Gulf of Kutch. The remaining 8.44 per cent (79 km2) are distributed in 8
districts hosting the mangrove forests of Gulf of Khambhat. District wise distribution of
mangrove cover in the State is given in Table 24.
Table 23: District wise-mangrove cover (sq km) in Gujarat (FSI, 2005)
Sl. Region Very Moderatel Open Total Change
No and Dense y Dense Mangrove w.r.t. 2003
District Mangr Mangrove assessme
ove nt
South & Central Gujarat Region
1 Bharuch 0 22 14 36 3
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Sl. Region Very Moderatel Open Total Change

No and Dense y Dense Mangrove w.r.t. 2003
District Mangr Mangrove assessme
ove nt
2 Navsari 0 0 1 1 0
3 Surat 0 7 10 17 4
4 Valsad 0 1 1 2 0
5 Ahmedabad 0 2 4 6 4
Total 0 32 30 62 11
Saurashtra Region
1 Bhavnagar 0 6 8 14 0
2 Jamnagar 0 28 122 150 9
(GoK)
3 Porbandar 0 1 0 1 0
4 Rajkot 0 1 1 2 0
Total 0 36 131 167 9
Kutch Region
1 Kutch 0 127 580 707 0
Total 0 127 580 707 0
Total Area 0 195 741 936 20
Figure 38: Location Narara, Gulf of Kachchh, Jamnagar
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Figure 39: Location: Pirotan Island, Gulf of Kachchh, Jamnagar

Around 180 MT carbon locked in Gujarat’s forests and Trees Outside
Forests (TOF): aim is to enhance carbon sequestration potential
Greening Gujarat: Major focus on social forestry to increase tree density
from 16/ha to 22/ha and increase TOF from 27 crores to 35 crores in ten
years
Holistic approach to reducing poverty’s carbon-footprint at landscape level
Mangroves play an important role in Gujarat’s ecosystem. There is an increase in

mangroves in State of Gujarat. In 2009 it was found to be in the area of 1046 sq km
Jamnagar and Kutch district along with Gulf of Cambay show increase in mangrove
forest. The forest areas of mangroves are second in India after Sunderbans in West
Bengal. In the inter tidal zone of Gujarat, 38,873 ha of mangrove plantation have been
carried up to the year 2009 -10. Mangrove forests are predominantly distributed over
three mangrove zones and as we move north wards on the coastline of Gujarat, these
zones are Gulf of Khambhat, Gulf of Kutch and Kori creek.
9.3 Key Strategies
The key strategies identify the need for research and development, institutional
strengthening and infrastructure development, policy support and capacity building in
this sector through various proposed activities.

9.3.1.1 Understanding change in forest cover
As noted in past a few State of Forest Reports published by Forest Survey of India,
there has been changes in the forest cover of the State. For example, there has
been an increase of 86 km2 in the open forest and a decrease of 70 km2 in the
moderately dense forest of Gujarat. There is a need to understand the underlying
cause of these changes and develop strategies to halt or even reverse the trend.
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The opportunities presented by international mechanisms like the CDM could play a
role and it’s applicability for the State should be assessed. In the same vein, the
upcoming mechanism such as REDD-plus (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation
and Forest Degradation) should also be explored. The objective of the international
debates and discussions around REDD-plus is to create a monetary value for the
carbon stored in forests that are under the ever increasing threat of deforestation or
degradation (given the direct and underlying causes). Once this forest carbon value
can be created and agreed upon, participating developing countries can then be
paid for protecting, conserving, sustainably managing their forests rather than
cutting them or letting them become degraded. This not only would not only enable
more carbon sequestration in the forests, but also be promote forestry-based
livelihood, ecosystem based services, biodiversity conservation, among other
benefits.
Studying and addressing linkages between forest degradation and livelihoods of
forest dependent communities.
According to the Wetland Atlas, 2010, the total area under ravines is 2.75 m ha in four
states, namely, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Rajasthan. Ravines eat
into farms and villages affecting the poorest and most vulnerable people who become
victims of ecological privations in the region. Priority should be to stop further ingress
of ravines into the non-ravine farmland.
9.3.1.2 Understanding changes in marine ecosystems
Studies required for understanding the impact of Climate Change on the marine
ecosystems (wetlands, mangroves and coral reef ecosystems) for the State of
Gujarat:
• E
xtensive studies are required to build a comprehensive database on the
current State of the mangrove, wetland and coral reef habitats, and their
associated flora and fauna.
• C
ollaborations with research institutions is required to strengthen research
on the mangrove and coral biodiversity in the State to maximize the
effectiveness of resilience-based management.
Studies required for understanding the long term impacts of

Climate Change on the coral reefs in the State of Gujarat
• Studies on the adaptation and recovery pathways of coral reefs, along with
improved monitoring, will help obtain a better understanding to manipulate the
direction of events. The non-climatic stresses in the region (e.g. pollution from
industries decline, fishing pressure) can be mitigated and managed easier than
global Climate Change.
• There is a need for extensive base-line data (bathymetry, contour maps w/1 m
resolution below 25ft, geo-referenced cadastral information, ecosystem status)
for the coral reef ecosystems of Gujarat.
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• Research is also required for a more in-depth understanding as to the

synergistic interactions of Climate Change and ocean acidification, with each
other, and with other climate related factors like storm intensity
• Studies are also required on how expected changes in coral reef community
structure would affect commercially important fish species in the State of
Gujarat, and thereby the local fishing communities that are dependent on the
reefs for food and resources, and solutions to improve the situation.
• Vulnerability maps for the corals in the Gulf of Kachchh would contribute
considerably to resilience building efforts.

9.3.2.1 Improving productivity of forests and plantations
While the State has a good track record of increasing area under ‘trees outside forests’,
improving their productivity is an option to meet the demand for forest products while
increasing carbon sequestration. Also, adoption of silvicultural practices and improved
planting materials can increase the productivity of forests to 1.35 m3 per ha per year in
drier regions, 7.66 m3 per ha per year in moist/wet regions, and 4-5 m3 per ha per year
in other parts of the country (MoEF, 1999).
In the case of plantations, productivity can potentially be increased manifold by planting

superior planting stock raised through tree improvement programmes as well as
through clonal technology and tissue culture. For instance, the annual productivity of a
seed-raised eucalyptus plantation is only 4-5 m3 per ha, which can increase to 20-40
m3 per ha with the introduction of genetically improved plants. Tree improvement
programmes in the country have not received enough attention and funding in the past.
With appropriate funding, research institutes and State agricultural universities can
intensify research activities on raising superior planting materials and on silviculture.
9.3.2.2 Specific activities:
Mapping and data management: Complete the survey, demarcation and

notification of forest areas and update the information on a GIS-platform. This would
help in identification of areas that might be available under different scope of
activities planned under the State action plan as well as in the process of
establishing eligibility of lands to be afforested under CDM. At the same time,
individual and community forest rights given would be mapped. Collate, analyze
and present the information on forest land diverted for non-forestry purposes in
Gujarat. Also assess the status of the afforestation carried out under compensatory
afforestation. Understand what worked and what didn’t and the reasons thereof.
Emissions reduction: Initiating a pilot project on Reduction of Emissions from

Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Gujarat
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Climate modeling: Develop dynamic vegetation models for Gujarat to predict more
accurately the impact of Climate Change on the flora of the State. This would also
require developing regional climate models and initiating more regional and
comprehensive research on forest vegetation characteristics, plant physiology, soil
and water, etc.
Tree improvement: Develop tree improvement programmes for the predominant

species of Gujarat. This would require gearing up the research institutes and State
agricultural universities to intensify research activities on raising superior planting
materials and carrying out research on the vulnerability of indigenous tree species to
Climate Change. At the same time, operationalize new and improved nurseries for
the supply of identified, quality planting material.
Biomass assessment and carbon modeling: The State has started to assess the
forest biomass and its attendant carbon. The State would model the future carbon
flux based on its planned forestry-based/related activities. This would help the State
to take informed decision on the uses it puts its forestry resources to. The State
would also develop the mechanism of continuous monitoring of the biomass and
carbon. Also undertake survey of various forest species and assessing their carbon
sequestration potential
Urban forestry and agroforestry: Expand the area of ‘trees outside forests’ within
urban environment and agroforestry systems. Increased area under urban forestry
would lead to amelioration of the urban environment in addition to enhanced carbon
sequestration. Integrating forestry within the agricultural systems would provide the
twin benefit of increased carbon sequestration and increased economic benefit to
the farmer. Market linkages would have to be strengthened and a favourable policy
environment (e.g., with respect to felling and transit rules etc) created to promote
agro-forestry on a large scale.
Biodiversity assessment: Carry out research studies on the threat of Climate

Change on the fauna in the State, especially those species in the State that are in
the Red Data List. At the same time, put in place mechanism to monitor the
biodiversity and changes in the habitat composition, especially in the context of any
changes observed in the habitat of the Wild Ass, Lion, the Great Indian Bustard and
Flamingo.
Afforestation: Afforestation programme for Coastal Areas of Gujarat with a view to

provide shelter and security against natural calamities, high velocity and salty
breezes, salinity and effects of Climate Change along the coastal areas of Gujarat
and create additional carbon sink
Plantations: Project for raising energy plantations and fodder plantations in the
interior forest village areas to reduce the burden over forests and to create a carbon
sink. There are about four thousand villages which are situated in and around the
forest areas of Gujarat. The demand of fuel and fodder of these villages is met
directly or indirectly from the forest areas. To reduce this ever increasing burden fuel
wood and fodder resources are required to be created in or in the vicinity of the
villages
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Exploring scope of convergence of developmental programme in areas within forest and
fringe forest areas from Rural Development, Tribal and Social Welfare, Health & Education,
Power Department for holistic development of forest dependent communities.
Forests, on their own, cannot sustain the load of unemployment of Forest Dependent
Communities; hence, other sectors should be explored to divert the pressure.
The Green Credit scheme proposes that the Forest Department would identify in
advance possible lands and prepare a blue print for their afforestation. They would
then sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with potential user agencies
which in turn would provide funds at the disposal of the former for afforestation.
Since this afforestation will take place on private lands under the controlled,
supervision and monitoring of the Forest Department they then would provide credits
(certificates) for this which could later be used by the user agency at the time of
making an application under the Forest Conservation Act, 1980 for the use of forest
land for non-forest purposes. The Green Credits scheme could be enhanced to
focus not just on the area being afforested, but also give weightage to the type of
plantations undertaken, its yield in terms of biomass and associated carbon, among
other benefits. Planting genetically improved varieties would provide more yields. On
the other hand, planting local varieties that are also used by local communities could
provide for better livelihood opportunities.
Build capacities at various levels of the State administration and other stakeholders
on Climate Change and forestry issues. For example, as envisioned in the Green
India Mission, Gram Sabha are expected to play a major role, their capacities have
to be strengthened for implementing forestry activities.
Enhancing the capacity of State Forest Department personnel and other
stakeholders to tap the opportunities available under the REDD-plus mechanism. At
the heart of REDD-plus would be the monitoring, reporting and verification of
carbon. While monitoring of deforestation can be carried out economically by using
remote sensing techniques, monitoring degradation would require use of more
expensive high resolution satellite imagery. Monitoring could alternatively (and
synergistically) be carried out with more extensive ground truthing by engaging local
forest-dependent people who can be trained to participate in field surveys and forest
inventories (along with the forest department). Not only will this provide the local
people with (part time) employment but also mobilize the support of forest-
dependent communities for forest protection and management.
Programme of Action for Forests and Biodiversity
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Sr Depar Activity Project Objective Budg Proj Outcomes

. tment/ et in ect
N Office Crore dura
o. Name Rs.* tion
1 Forest Inventorization of Potential of carbon 0.813 5 Understanding
s and Bio-diversity through sequestration and threats to Carbon
Enviro identification of such wet lands; its utilization sequestration
nment important species patterns & dependence of potential and
Depart and their local communities; measuring
ment interrelation & Ecosystem services ecosystem
independence, Bio- assessment provided by the services
physical parameters wetlands; Public provided by
and understanding participation in conservation wetlands
impact of Climate & awareness building
Change on
Nanikarad Weland
as the Pilot Project
2 Afforestation of To afforest chosen intertidal 61.87 5 Increasing
Coastal Areas of areas with suitable species coastal area
Gujarat with a view of mangroves. to reduce the security through
to provide shelter erosion of the shore line; To green cover
and security against enrich bio-diversity in shelter and measuring
natural calamities, belts and mangroves Carbon
high velocity and plantation areas; To sequestration
salty breezes, sequester additional carbon potential
salinity and effects and create carbon sink; To
of climate change involve local communities in
and to create protecting the plantations
additional Carbon and seek their participation
Sink. in protecting the plantations
3 Project for To create fuel wood and 57.8 5 Achieve
increasing energy fodder resources in villages localized
plantation and situated in and around the energy security
fodder plantations in forest area; To meet the fuel
the interior forest wood and fodder
village areas to requirement from such
reduce the burden resources instead of meeting
over forests and to the demand from forest
create a carbon areas; To involve people in
sink. management of the
plantation; To reduce the
burden on forests; To create
a carbon sink by raising the
plantation
4 Forest To Build Awareness To create awareness 2.87 5 Increased
s and and Communication amongst the people on the sensitivity and
Enviro on Climate Change, effects of climate change; awareness to
nment Elucidate its Emphasizing the role of climate change
Depart Mitigation Measures forests in mitigating climate issues with
ment change; To publicize regards to
concurrent issues on climate forest
change; To create
documentation on the
causes and effects of climate
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change
5 Developing a REDD plus the potential to 2.58 5 Carbon

Project on earn carbon credits for the sequestration
Reduction of state and can bring
Emissions from incentives and monetary
Deforestation and benefits to the local people
Forest Degradation also.
(REDD+) in
Amlipada Area of
Fort Songadh
Range in Vyara
Forest Division to
the extent of 3000
ha is identified in
Tapi district of the
state
6 Project on survey of To study the potential of 3.34 5 Identify
various species for various forest species to opportunities of
carbon sequester carbon. and give a growth of
sequestration detailed account of the specific species
potential, utilization pattern of various for carbon
sustainable forest species, identify the sequestration
production and threats on the species to
utillization devise proper conservation
plans. It will provide
baseline data for the
preparation of Forest
Working plans
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Apart from various activities listed above, promoting organic farming to build
capacity in the production and processing of organic products; to train farmers in
organic farming. and environment friendly process of pests and diseases
management, soil fertility management, post-harvest handling of crops and
marketing of products could be further strengthened.
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10.0 Health
10.1 Strategies for health

Evidence of this relationship between rising temperature and increased mortality and
morbidity caused by heat stress can be seen throughout India, and Gujarat is one of
the states most affected. Average temperatures are projected to increase and the
frequency and duration of heat waves are also projected to intensify, according to both
global and regional climate models. This can lead to drought, disease, floods, famine,
extreme heat, and humidity causing severe direct and indirect effects on health, such
as malnutrition, a rise in climate-sensitive diseases like diarrheal illnesses, dengue
fever andchickungunya etc. Increased rates of heat-related mortality and illness after
heat waves are particularly pronounced in low-income cities, especially among workers
with occupational exposure to extreme heat.
Gujarat has long experienced extreme heat, is among the driest regions in India and
houses a large migrant population. Gujarat’s rapid economic development adds to
environmental health concerns and in recent years, the city has suffered from
increasing air, water, and soil pollution from industrial areas, textile, chemical industries
and lack of citizen awareness regarding pollution prevention.
Though, the NAPCC does not address climate impacts, on health, specifically, the
Government of Gujarat has included this sector in its SAPCC.
10.2 Government Initiatives
10.2.1 Establishment of heat health early warning system

The State has implemented State Referral lab network plan, 8 medical colleges and 2
priority lab. All districts of the State have been linked with Medical colleges and priority
lab for RRT and laboratory conformation outbreaks. The project aims to strengthen the
integrated and decentralized surveillance activities of IDSP and also make it
compatible to forecast the impacts of Climate Change on health and to strengthen the
systems for data collection, reporting, analysis, and feedback using information
technology.Heat Action plan for Ahmedabad has already been prepared for the year
2014.
10.2.2 Establishment of research cell

In year 2007, Indian Institute of Public Health-Gandhinagar had been established to
strengthen the overall health system through education, training, research, advocacy
and policy initiatives. The Centre will be staffed by a team of three experts. Each year
the cell will take up specific work plan in consultation with health department and
Climate Change Department.
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10.2.3 Vector control measures

Vector borne diseases viz: malaria, dengue, chikungunya are prevalent vector borne
disease in Gujarat, for which the Government has taken measures to control the
disease. For proactive surveillance 10 Sentinel Surveillance Hospitals with laboratory
support have been identified. Other Government proposals include distribution of
12,00,000 long lasting impregnated Net (LLIN) to communities to prevent vector borne
diseases. All LLIN will be treated with anti-mosquito drugs regularly in the field by health
care workers. During 2012 ,under National Vector Borne Disease ControlProgramme
(NVBDCP) 3.60 lakh Long Lasting Insecticide treated Nets (LLINS )were distributed in
high risk areas. 9.0 lakh beneficiaries were protected. Moreover 61.83 lakh populations
of high risk villages were also covered under regular round of Indoor Residual Spray in
2012 (GoG, 2013). Antenatal mothers, urban slum community, BPL families will be
given priority.
A large number of initiatives are being undertaken in the State for the control of vector
borne diseases. These include:
Introduction of larvivorous fish in identified water bodies

Indoor space Spraying/fogging to protect high risk populations
Treating community owned mosquito nets and making available more mosquito nets
out of various sources
Intensive surveillance in high risk areas are being carried out as a pre transmission
drive in all the districts.
Deploying additional vector control teams to prevent and control vector borne
diseases. These need to be up-scaled by expanding the coverage and reach to the
block and village level.

Epidemic early warning systems
Vector control activities
Climate proofing of health infrastructure
10.3 Key Strategies
Health assessments studies will help to understand linkages between Climate Change
parameters and health and will inform the decision makers, health practitioners,
planning authorities and civil society organizations with information so public health
policies and programmes can be developed, customized and implemented in the light
of Climate Change. These include:
Studies for identifying vulnerable populations and regions need to be carried out for
Gujarat. The vulnerability may arise due to a range of factors which interact with
various determinants of health outcomes. Vulnerability may arise due to
demographic factors such as age and sex of the population or limited access to
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health care infrastructure or the existing health status of the individual that may
result in increased risk. The study will help identify populations and regions with
increased or decreased vulnerability to climate variability and change.
Studies should be sanctioned for carrying out sensitivity analyses that provide
insights on the relationships between weather/climate patterns and health
determinants and outcomes. These results can be used for strengthening existing
Government policies and programmes.
Research to understand linkages between Climate Change and respiratory and
allergic diseases, urbanization and vector borne disease in relation to Climate
Change, Mortality increase due to Climate Change among others.
Health impact studies should be conducted for the State using high resolution
meteorological data (observed and projections) and establish the links with
epidemiological parameters.
To strengthen the systems for data collection, reporting, analysis, and feedback
using information technology. The State should develop and maintain a digital health
database for mortality and morbidity related to climate sensitive Vector-Borne
Diseases, water borne diseases, and those related to higher temperatures and
rainfall extremes. The Primary Health Centres, Community Health Centres, District
Hospitals and Anganwadi workers can be engaged in the process.
Spatial analysis using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can characterize the
human and ecological landscape in which disease is transmitted to identify
vulnerabilities and possible interventions. Remote Sensing techniques and GIS
should be applied to highlight current distribution of vulnerable population and
spatial relationship to disease vectors, river basins flooding and other important
variables of interest to public health officials.
Strengthening the disease surveillance systems by having early diagnostic systems

for providing immediate treatment.
Setting up sentinel health facilities- based surveillance systems and conducting
periodic household level surveys. Further strengthening the integrated and
decentralized surveillance activities of IDSP and also make it compatible to forecast
the impacts of Climate Change on health.
The State has good health infrastructure which has resulted in significant
improvement in the health status of the people of the State. As per the Annual
Development Report 2011-12, the Death Rate and Infant Mortality Rate has shown a
decline. The number of Community Health Centres, Primary Health Centres and
Sub-centres functioning in the State has significantly increased .The State has 6
major hospitals with educational institute, 24 district level hospitals and 26 sub-
district level hospitals. Strengthening and Expansion of healthcare delivery,
infrastructure and services to the sub-district/block level.
Developing Integrated surveillance systems and Early Warning Systems in

collaboration with Indian Meteorological Department to collection of relevant
information and its timely dissemination to vulnerable populations. Due to its high
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penetration in rural areas, Mobile technology could be a useful mode of

communicating risks.
Development of a research cell to support Government’s public health programmes
through education, training, research, advocacy and policy initiatives.
Although there are uncertainties about the rate and magnitude of future Climate
Change, policy makers need to understand the potential health impacts of Climate
Change, the effectiveness of current adaptation and mitigation policies, and the range
of choices available for enhancement of current policies and programmes, or the
development of new policies and programmes. Policies and programmes to address
the health risks from Climate Change should also explicitly consider ways to avoid
large scale health impacts from extreme events.
Monitoring programmes for assessing malnutrition in vulnerable populations should

be introduced. Coverage of programmes such as The Integrated Child Development
Services (ICDS) Programme , which provide provides a package of services to the
child such as supplementary nutrition, immunization and health check-up, should be
enhanced. Existing initiatives taken by Government of Gujarat such as
Micronutrient fortified extruded blended – ready to cook take home ration and
decentralization: distribution of fruit, milk and breakfast through Matru
mandals/Self Help Group should be up-scaled to enhance their coverage and
effectiveness.
Introducing health insurance scheme for the State for providing health insurance to
the poor and marginalized. Expanding the coverage of Rashtriya Swasthya Bima
Yojana (RSBY) to all districts of the State. This will ensure health security to poor
households against the risk of health expenditure aggravating poverty.
Coordination with other sectors and departments for ensuring success of health
programmes. For example coordination with agriculture sector to address the issue
of food security and water sector for addressing water issues can help alleviate
potential adverse health impacts.
Introducing Integrated vector management and environmental hygiene programmes
The future health impacts of Climate Change will vary over spatial and temporal
scales, and will depend upon changing socio-economic and environmental
conditions, with possibilities for diseases to increase in incidence and/or change
their geographic range. Therefore capacity needs to be built within public health
and healthcare organizations and institutions to prepare for and identify changing
risks and to evaluate the effectiveness of current and proposed programmes, both
within and outside the health sector.
Regular training workshops should be conducted for medical and para-medical
staff, link workers and multi-purpose workers to understand enhanced risks to
human health due to Climate Change and equip them with the knowledge to
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recognize and respond to emergency situations. New improved module should be

developed which includes IDSP case definitions and reporting
Effective communication and out-reach activities will empower the individuals and
communities with the knowledge to take necessary measures to address the health
risks.Educational programmes for communities on risks of and appropriate
responses to extreme weather events, identifying and treating water-borne, food-
borne and vector borne diseases can be broadcast in the local language on local
TV channels and Radio to reach out to the masses
Upgradation and modernization of Information, Education and Communication and
training activities in the State. Alerts in newspapers, pamphlets, posters can be
used to spread the message
• E
ncouraging and spreading awareness about initiatives such as the Tele-
medicine whereby the State govt. has decided to provide telemedicine
facility at 10 CHCs and 24 PHCs integrated with fourtertiary hospital
(attached with medical colleges) and district hospitals and Helpline -104
for non emergencyMedical Services for non emergency cases will help
the community to have requiredhealth and medical services including
super specialty facilities at the nearest place.
• A
network of Civil Society Organizations working on health issues should
be formed to leverage on their understanding of ground realities and close
ties with the communities. The network would help spread awareness
among community groups on coping with health risks.
• T
raditional practices including design of houses, cultural practices and
dietary habits and clothing are effective means of preventing heat-strokes.
These have to be recognized and encouraged.
Based on these strategies and the key vulnerabilites, that have already been
stated like increased heat stress and VBD, some activites of immediate
importance were identified and have been reflected in the activity
section.
Programme of Action for Health

Sr Depart Activity Project Objective Budge Proje Outcomes
No ment/Of t in ct
. fice Crore durat
Name Rs. ion
1 Health Vector To distribute 12,00,000 LLIN 99.75 5 Decreased
and control to communities to prevent disease
Family measures vector borne diseases to burden and
Welfare including priority stakeholders such as frequency of
Departm distribution of antenatal mothers, urban vector borne
ent long lasting slum community, BPL incidences
impregnated families
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No ment/Of t in ct
. fice Crore durat
Name Rs. ion
net (LLIN)
2 Heat health To strengthen the integrated 19 5 Surveillance

early warning and decentralized of heat stress
system in all surveillance activities of IDSP and climate
districts of and also make it compatible vulnerability
the state to forecast the impacts of
(linked with climate change on health; To
Medical strengthen the systems for
colleges and data collection, reporting,
priority lab analysis, and feedback using
for Rapid information technology
Response
team (RRT)
and
laboratory
conformation
outbreaks)
3 Health Activity- To strengthen the overall 5 5 Research,
and Development health system in the country advocacy and
Family of a research through education, training, policy
Welfare cell at Indian research, advocacy and intervention in
Departm Institute of policy initiatives. health and
ent public health climate
(IIPH) change
Gandhinagar
4 Health Heat-stress Planning and management of 46 5 Capacity
and and health adaptation solutions to building,
Family (HSH) increasing heat wave events Parnership,
Welfare impact focusing on Ahmedabad, Policy,
Departm :Adaption Sabarkantha, Surendranagar, Advocacy and
ent strategies for Patan, Rajkot and Amreli Implementatio
Gujarat n for heat
stress
management
5 Health Water quality Water quality monitoring 55.75 5 Reducing
and Surveillance focusing on impacts of water disease
Family quality on health covering all burden
Welfare districts and the state caused by
Departm deteriorating
ent water quality
6 Climate Research on To assess the impact of 0.25 1.5 Mapping
Change “Assessing climate change on human vector borne
Departm climate health, focusing on risks diseases and
ent change related to specific Vector- their impact
impacts on Borne Diseases (VBDs) on the
vector-borne Study the impact of climate population
diseases in variability and change on
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11.0 Urban Development
11.1 Strategies for Urban Development

Urban areas are one of the most affected by impacts of Climate Change as people and
infrastructure are often concentrated within a limited geographical area and this is
particularly true in the case of rapidly developing areas, where these concentrations
are increasing. However urban areas have potential advantages in building resilience
to Climate Change impacts in terms of the economies of scale and proximity that they
present for key protective infrastructure and services and for risk-reducing governance
innovations.
The Government of Gujarat aims to address these issues through improvements in
energy efficiency in buildings, management of solid waste and provide the
infrastructure for the shift to public transport, in accordance with the National Mission
Box 16: National Mission on Sustainable Habitat
The main objectives of the mission include promoting energy efficiency in residential
and commercial sector, solid waste management and promotion of urban public
transport, conservation through appropriate changes in legal and regulatory
framework. It also seeks to improve resilience of infrastructure, community based
disaster management and measures for improving advance warning systems for
extreme weather events.
The main components of the Mission are:
1. Development of National Sustainable Habitat Standards (Legal/Regulatory)

measures
2. Incorporation of Principles of Sustainable Habitat in city
3. Complementary action such as support
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11.2 State Initiatives and Achievements
11.2.1 Tackling global warming due to urbanization

With burgeoning population (around 4.5 million) in Ahmedabad city, around eight
hundred thousand passenger travel every day through the fleet of over one thousand
Ahmedabad Municipal Transport Service (AMTS) buses and around 1.9 million private
vehicles of all kinds ply on Ahmedabad roads. Therefore, enormous traffic is a major
source of Green House Gas (GHG) emission in Ahmedabad city.
To ease the traffic congestion and simultaneously reduce the GHG emission, the
execution of Bus Rapid Transport System (BRTS) was undertaken.The BRTS
programme being implemented in the cities of Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat and
Rajkot, aims to shift 40 per cent of trips from personal transport vehicles to public
transport.The objective is to significantly reduce carbon emissions by discouraging use
of private vehicles through strengthening of the public transport system. This would
ultimately reduce the movement of 400,000 vehicles per day with a net reduction of
37,000 tonnes GHG per annum (mainly CO2 and NOx).
Gujarat has taken up an aggressive programme to convert a large number of public
buses as well as auto-rickshaws to CNG for reducing emissions. All pre 1991 auto
rickshaws have been completely banned as per the resolution passed by the Regional
Transport Authority. In addition to this, more than a dozen flyovers are being executed
in Ahmedabad and Surat cities which would facilitate easy transit of vehicles, ultimately
leading in pollution and emission reduction.
Box 17: Respirable Suspended Particulate Matter

According to the data of Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), in 2001 the annual average
concentration of Respirable Suspended Particulate Matter (RSPM) levels in residential
locations of Ahmedabad was 198 µg/m3, which was 4th highest concentration amongst 90
cities of India. As per a 2008 report of the CPCB the annual average of RSPM levels in
residential areas of Ahmedabad was 80 µg/m3, improving its rank to 66th.
Figure 39: RSPM Concentration in Ahmedabad
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1.2.2 Adopting clean fuels in Gujarat

Climate Change mitigation is an important but not to slow the pace of development, was
the core idea when the State went ahead to introduce clean fuel mechanism through the
first ever State wide Gas grid of 1550 km covering 15 districts of Gujaratand an
additional 350 kilometers is under construction/development. This has led to conversion
of thousands of vehicles and industries to natural gas. An ambitious city gas distribution
system has led to more than 4,00,000 domestic connections received as a boon in
smaller towns of Gujarat. The total gas flow in the three sectors has been around 58.56
Million Metric Cubic Metres per day resulting in reduction of 23 million tCO2.
Figure 40: Gas grid covering various districts of Gujarat
Source: Gujarat State Petronet Ltd. (GSPL), 2014
In addition, the Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation has established the Pandit
Deendayal Petroleum University for training human resources in the energy sector. A
School of Solar Energy has also been set up under this University. All public sector
undertaking units are taking up Efficiency Gains Programmes through fuel switch and
technology change. Largest Urban Energy Efficiency programme in India is under
implementation which will cover all Municipal Corporations and Municipalities in the
State and lead to energy savings of nearly 30 per cent.
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For managing GHG emissions from Municipal Solid Waste, Gujarat Urban
Development Corporation (GUDC) is developing compost plants for all Urban Local
Bodies work has commenced for93such vermi-compost plants in Gujarat. The project
comprises measures to avoid production of methane from municipal solid waste that
would otherwise decay anaerobically in land fill sites/dumps. The implementation of
Municipal Solid Waste Management (MSWM), as per MSW Rules, 2000 is taken by
GUDC. This includes collection, transportation, composting and disposal on scientific
basis for all urban local bodies. Gujarat is the leading State in the country in
compliance of MSWM rules 2000.They are expected to generate 1000tonnes/day of
vermi- compost.

Gujarat Development Control Regulations (GDCR) to be revised for
promoting Green buildings, regulation for improvement of para-transit in
cities
GHG emissions inventory
Landfill sites for solid waste management
11.3 Key Strategies
11.3.1 Disaster preparedness and mitigation plan; early warning

systems (IT based)/emergency operation centers
Disaster preparedness and mitigation plan for flood related emergencies at a city level
is of critical importance. GSDMA has developed the Hazard Risk and Vulnerability atlas
for the State covering six major hazards. Based on this, the hazard risk mapping for
areas prone to extreme rainfall should be carried out at the local level for each
city/town. For towns prone to flooding, the investment and planning interventions
should mandatorily refer to these studies. To enable this further, these cities should
have disaster management plans integrated into the development plans. GSDMA could
take up preparing city specific guidelines to help cities integrate DRR in planning
processes.
Relevant technical capacities should be developed and State-of-art equipment
acquired. Apart from this, local authorities should perform constant monitoring of the
seasonal rainfall to predict/forecast any disaster like situation.
Inter-departmental coordination strategy- An inter-departmental coordination strategy
should be in place for effective implementation of the disaster management plan. This
should contain action to be taken by each department i.e. storm water drainage, health,
etc in case of floods resulting from extreme rainfall. Each action should be designated
to an officer in charge and timelines to be set in the strategy.
Surat city has implemented elaborate monsoon preparation process to mitigate flood
risks. The activities under this range from gearing up the administrative system,
cleaning up the drainage and sewerage system, preparation of emergency evacuation,
emergency drills etc. The level of Ukai Dam is monitored continuously during rainy
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season and conveyed to people. Advance warnings are provided by megaphones and
SMS system.
The State should encourage, other flood prone cities and towns to develop and enable
such mechanisms in their cities. IT enabled early warning systems should be
introduced in phased manner in cities. The early warning systems should be linked to
evacuation plans and health facilities.
11.3.2 Improving community participation

An effort should be made to incorporate communities residing in the flood prone areas
in the disaster preparedness and mitigation plan. An IEC (Information Education
Communication) campaign in order to educate the communities about the risks of
extreme rainfall, and basic good practices to avoid spread of water borne diseases in
case of water logging for elongated periods should be undertaken. An evacuation plan
should be prepared in consultation with the community and be publicized in the
regional language. Maps showing low lying areas and high ground points in an easily
readable format should be made available to the communities. Asset bank systems
and resource pooling at community level need to be built and where these already exist
they need to be improved.
11.4 Waste management

Rapid urbanization and changing lifestyles are generating huge amounts of municipal
solid waste and sewerage in the urban areas of the State. The State agencies already
have several initiatives either in the pilot phase or initial stages to address this problem.
Construction of a number of common landfill sites, sewerage treatment plants and
composting sites is underway at several locations across the State.

There is an urgent need for documentation and database of technology options for
processing and disposal of wastes and also the facilities which are in operation in
the State. In many cases, facilities /plants work under capacity or have been
temporarily or permanently closed. Documentation of the feedback, including
actual capital investment, difficulties faced in installation, operation and
maintenance of the project facility and its cost, frequency of repair and
replacement, and so on is also essential for a holistic assessment of the situation.
Further, a system for detailed data collection on quantity and composition of
municipal and other types of solid waste generated within the municipal area,
preferably on a regular basis is required. This data is essential for appropriate and
realistic design of a solid waste management system for the city. However, it is
acknowledged that reliable data collection regarding solid waste management is
very difficult in view of the various uncertainties associated with waste generation,
such as season and festive occasions. Therefore, proper data can only evolve if
data is collected for at least one full year, which would cover these uncertainties.
Regular data collection would provide vital information regarding changing nature
and composition of waste with time, which in turn would help in directing R&D
efforts, designing waste management systems and strategy for future programmes.
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Although statistically speaking, the waste sector is considered a relatively small
contributor to greenhouse gas emissions (~3-5% globally) but it has the potential to be
a relatively large part of the solution (nearly 20%). Moreover, the sector has far greater
relevance in regions witnessing rapid urbanization and industrialization with mature
technologies related to recycling, landfilling, and biochemical treatment attaining
acceptability and viability in the market. The waste management technologies not only
mitigate GHG emissions from post-consumer waste but also provide public health,
environmental protection, and sustainable development co-benefits.
The potential mitigation technologies which can find wide application in the major
waste producing centres of the State include landfill gas recovery, improved landfill
practices, and engineered wastewater management. In addition, significant GHG
generation could be avoided through controlled composting, State-of-the-art
incineration, and expanded sanitation coverage. Reduced waste generation and
the exploitation of energy from waste (landfill gas, incineration, anaerobic digester
biogas) can produce an indirect reduction of GHG emissions through the
conservation of raw materials, improved energy and resource efficiency, and fossil
fuel avoidance.
The policy makers/decision makers at each stage of the value chain should
ascertain that local technology choices/decisions are influenced by factors such as
waste quantity and characteristics, cost and financing issues, infrastructure
requirements including available land area, collection and transport
considerations, and regulatory constraints and not guided by the best available
technology for the purpose alone.
Waste-to-energy (WTE) projects have dual benefits - they not only solve the
problem of waste disposal but also lead to generation of electricity through that
waste. However, some of the barriers with regard to such projects like high upfront
costs, lack of segregation of wastes (and dangers thereof), lack of awareness
about the merits of incineration technology, lack of availability of land for setting up
integrated MSW treatment and power generation plant etc. need to be addressed
through appropriate policy and financial instruments. Also, there is a need to
involve expertise available with the industry sector to develop WTE options for the
city (need for local body to work closely with corporate sector).
Gujarat has pioneered the concept of regional landfills, this needs to be further
promoted to not only address the issue of costs involved in the process, but also to
ensure regular supply of right quality/quantity of wastes reaching the sites and
thereby maximum GHG abatement and recovery of methane to be used as an
energy source.

The current or the revised policy framework in this regard should ensure
implementation of integrated waste management system – linking waste collection
and transportation to processing and disposal. Integrated waste management
system is required for cities to operate the process more efficiently at lesser cost
and making the service sustainable. Integration could be at different levels -
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different aspects of sustainability technical, environmental, public health, financial,

and so on; integration of different collection, transportation, and treatment options
at different habitat levels (household level, neighborhood level, and city level);
cooperation, alliance, and socio-economic interaction of different stakeholders
either engaged or affected by waste management services (users, Government,
formal/informal organizations, and so on);and integration of waste management
system with other basic services like storm-water drainage, sanitation, and health
and hygiene programmes in the city.
Performance-based privatization of services especially in the area of waste
collection, transportation, and processing should be encouraged to bring in
efficiency. However, inviting the private sector for service improvement and better
cost recovery would require local bodies to gain expertise in the preparation of
contracts and to understand the technical and legal issues related to the
requirements regarding processing facilities, landfill sites, and so on. The technical
capacity of local bodies needs to be enhanced to cover such aspects as well. The
various stakeholders in the value chain should ensure than minimal biodegradable
wastes reaches the landfill sites.
A special task force and a dedicated cell for urban waste management need to be
established at the municipal level. The cell would be headed by an environmental
engineer or civil engineer as against the public health officer as is normally done to
achieve maximum performance. The cell would be guided and advised by a
steering committee of eminent technocrats and senior citizens of the city for
planning process.
Replicating the success story of Surat, decentralization of municipal functioning at
the zonal level and ward level needs to be aggressively encouraged in all urban
centres of the State to bring out the accountability and efficiency improvement.
Civil societies could play a critical role in providing decentralized waste
management services in peripheral/marginalized areas where municipal service is
weak.
The policy makers should ensure that the provisions of waste management
services are in sync with economic/social needs of the region (especially urban
poor) like livelihood of urban poor, sanitation and health status for wider
acceptability of the proposed system, especially waste segregation, during
collection; this would be a key to the success for any waste processing option
adopted by a local body. There is a need establish a cost-recovery mechanism for
services to make them sustainable.
The policies should provide incentives for communities to own up local initiatives
make the project more sustainable. Further, involvement of waste
pickers/community organizations/NGOs ensures successful waste collection and
local-level waste management especially in peripheral areas where municipal
coverage is generally weak. Or in other cases effective involvement of rag-pickers
of the informal system in the door-to-door solid waste collection system would not
only make the process more productive but also provide them with livelihood
opportunities.
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The policy framework should address the issue of conflicting interests between
different agencies responsible for energy generation, compost supply, and waste
management. Moreover methane recovery (from various waste sources like
landfills, compost plants, etc.) can introduce new actors into the waste
segregation/disposal process, potentially disturbing the current balance of
economic and political power in the community.
The privatization efforts (e.g. through PPP) in various local bodies should be able
to integrate the informal and formal private sector, and thus make the most from
such integration. Such initiatives can be carried out on pilot scale in the first phase
and thereby replicated to other areas upon successful implementation.

The State agencies need to undertake capacity building initiatives for all relevant
stakeholders to address the knowledge and information gaps with regard to
relative costs and effectiveness of alternative technical options, lack of experience
with low-cost recently developed processes like anaerobic treatment of wastes or
expensive, sophisticated technologies like landfilling.
11.5 Water/wastewater management

Providing safe and adequate water to the growing urban population of the State has
become a daunting task for the urban authorities. In addition to the insufficient
availability of water resources, lack of good infrastructure/techniques for monitoring,
treatment facilities, along with poor management of waste water, also contribute
towards widespread pollution of surface and groundwater, leading to rapid deterioration
of the environment.

Any reform initiatives to address the issue of water availability in the urban
sector should be preceded with data management. An integrated comprehensive
water supply network database is important to get a holistic understanding of the
entire network, distribution, and including inlets/outlets etc. This data set will also
provide information on coverage, UFW (unaccounted for water), metering, and so
on, and ways to manage the system more efficiently and effectively. The data will
enable cities to develop its future strategies to improve service delivery and achieve
the benchmarks set at the State/country level.
A regularized system of water audits to provide a comprehensive
appraisal of the availability, distribution, utilization, and the extent of losses in the
system needs to be introduced. The dataset generated during the water auditing
procedure should be used to calculate the various types of leakages at various
stages for the entire city to determine the level of leakage within the distribution
network and devise the corrective measures.
The system of water audits also needs to monitor in a transparent
manner, the corporate efforts towards conservation of water in the areas
surrounding the plant.
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In order to achieve maximum reduction of UFW (unaccounted for water)
options like reducing water loss through pressure management, reducing
unmetered supplies/improving meter accuracy, reducing UFW through asset
management, actively controlling leakage to reduce UFW can be adopted. In fact,
all these initiatives toreduce UFWs in the system can be addressed by developing
DMAs (district metered areas) - an integrated way of systematically analyzing and
addressing the issues in a designated area.
Rapid industrialization in the State exerts extra stress on the limited water
availability of the State owing to erratic and irregular rainfall and receding ground
water levels with the changing climate further aggravating the situation. To
overcome this and ensure regular availability of water to the industrial activity in the
State, the industrial clusters in coordination with the Urban Local Bodies and other
local authorities can come together for implementing a compensatory water
harvesting initiative. The involved industrial units in consultation with the authorities
can fund the initiative to create rain water harvesting and storage and ground water
harvesting and storage and associated infrastructure within and around the
industry/ies. If scientifically implemented the initiative would not only provide water
to the industrial units but also to the nearby residential communities.
Instead of opting for cost-intensive augmentation measures like long-
distance import of surface water or desalination, the ULBs need to aggressively
promote non-conventional water sources rainwater harvesting, conservation of
catchments/ water bodies from encroachment and restoration of traditional water
bodies, complete treatment of wastewater before discharging it into surface water
bodies, etc.
Decentralized sewage collection and treatment should be made
mandatory in all towns and cities with inadequate centralized sewage treatment.
Reuse of grey water for irrigation or flushing should be increased, so as to
reduce the total volume of waste-water reaching the city’s sewage system; this
could be incentivized through financial instruments.
Urban Storm Water Drainage Infrastructure Improvement: Lack of
storm water drainage heightens the risks related to water logging and spread of
water born diseases during incidents of extreme rainfall. Thus, for addressing these
risks, there is a need to improve the storm water drainage infrastructure in the
urban centers in the State. This essentially means comprehensively undertaking
the following sub strategies:
• Development of a comprehensive drainage master plan (including
background studies, phasing of projects, operation and maintenance
arrangement, funding , etc)
• Construction of roadside and outfall drains in order to carry the storm
water
• Design of the system should be such that the storm water is fed into natural
channels or ground water recharging areas
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The policy framework should essentially focus on strategies/processes
involved in establishing and implementing effective water loss management
strategies (primarily reduction of UFW) and tariff rationalization.
State wide rule to incorporating water harvesting in building by-laws:
Considering the reduction in average rainfall, and increase in extreme rainfall
events there is a need toincorporate regulations on water harvesting, reuse and
recycle in the building by laws of urban local bodies. The State Government has
passed the orders and made mandatory for the local Government to implement
these regulations. An assessment system therefore should be adopted which could
help ensuring compliance of the law. TheState should commission preparing
manuals on various means of water conservation, water harvesting techniques for
different housing types, and ways of reuse and recycle for non-drinking purposes to
facilitate the strategy. Some cities like Surat have already introduced rainwater
harvesting and the proposed manuals would only facilitate other cities to adopt the
system.
The policy framework should promote initiatives based on public–private
partnership models to ensure improved water and sanitation services by using
performance-based contracts to manage the water distribution and transmission
system. Such models should not only be aimed at enhanced water management of
water resources but also an increase in the revenues of the local authorities and a
substantial drop in customer complaints. Throughout this process, transparency
and effectiveness should be key words. There is, however, a realization that no
single model will suit all situations, and PPP must be tailored to meet local
infrastructure, affordability, cultural norms, and so on.
The policies need to curb excessive/uncontrolled groundwater abstraction
and subsurface contamination. Non-notified zones should be brought under
regulation and strict enforcement in notified areas should be ascertained.
It should be made compulsory for water-intensive industries within the city
limits to recharge groundwater through artificial means like rainwater harvesting.
There should be direct regulatory measures as well as economic instruments
(financial incentive and sanctions) to achieve this.
Groundwater abstraction rights should be withdrawn from industrial
companies that have not installed water-efficient technologies. Trading treated
waste water for groundwater abstraction rights with industrial abstractor in fringe
urban areas on a carefully planned basis can be done.
Before establishing a new plant, water availability needs to be assessed
from long-term and ecosystem perspective, keeping in mind present and future
(potential) competing water demands in the area.
Appropriate policies need to be devised to encourage independent
provision of water resources, including rainwater harvesting and grey water reuse.
Rainwater capture storage should be made mandatory, wherever applicable based
on the geological strata and hydrological conditions of the city.
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The ULBs are required to be sensitized and encouraged to be responsive
to the specific needs of socio-economically vulnerable groups. The main aim of the
training should be to motivate and assist the ULBs and generate awareness.
The ULBs need to be made aware of the full range of low-cost and
appropriate water-saving technologies and need to be provided with skills to assist
with their selection.
Different levels of need-based training should be provided to the entire
staff of the local bodies on a regular basis to enhance the current skill set of
functionaries and to enable them to perform the envisaged tasks more efficiently.
For effective data management (especially in areas where water
management initiatives are being launched for the first time or in the initial phases),
staff capacity has to be regularly developed and updated on elements like data
collection, screening and logging, data transfer, data checking and validation etc.
Calculation of water footprint, linking with tax rebates for business owners
and individuals: State can encourage large business owners/corporate and
individuals to calculate their water footprint. Just like carbon, water footprint can
also be calculated by developing a tool using a fixed set of variables for business
owners and individuals like water usage in kitchen, bath and gardening etc. This
tool can also calculate possible reduction in the water footprint by employing certain
basic water conservation principles. Well documented and result-oriented good
practices could be made eligible for a tax rebate program.
It is acknowledged that not all the water boards, utilities and local bodies
have similar capacities, resources etc. Therefore, it is not possible to create and
develop these capacities within the organization. In such situations, some of the
tasks can be outsourced or farmed out to consultancies, research institutes, and so
on, who have dedicated manpower and infrastructure for data management
including GIS (geographical information service), MIS (management information
system), and so on. However, water boards, utilities and local bodies should create
adequate capacities to assign, deploy, utilize, oversee, and manage the outsourced
assignments.
11.6 Urban transport system

In order to develop an integrated land use and transportation infrastructure plan for
the urban centres of the State, a study needs to be undertaken to help in deciding
on an optimal modal mix for the city; assessing public transport demand;
identification of routes, nodes, and so on. Authentic data needs to be collected on
travel needs, preferences, patterns, trip lengths, modal splits, number and type of
vehicles, capacity, ridership, average speeds, age of fleet, and so on.
Every city needs to have an overall mobility and transport infrastructure plan
indicating the present and projected travel demands and patterns; existing modal
split and desired modes for the future; and desired framework for overall transport
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development and management in the city including intermodal integration. Specific

studies in this regard could be carried out to collate the required data/information.

For effective transport management, the State polices need to integrate the
concerns related to transport planning with land use planning and urban
development from the very initial stage of policy making and implementation.
The current State policies need to be relooked/upgraded to address the growing
transportation needs through enhanced implementation of Mass Rapid Transport
System (MRTS) especially in all the urban and sub-urban centres of the State. All
the major cities of the State could be connected with intercity railway network
having good facilities at affordable costs. Rapid-transit-system with city buses could
be provided to the satellite towns emerging as growth centers around the main
cities of the State. Construction of metro rail for mass passenger transport should
be considered for the key business centres of the State.
PPP models can be implemented for promotion of mass transport system in urban
and semi-urban locations. Besides creation of the infrastructure, the PPP scheme
could be extended upto the operation and maintenance stage and an appropriate
revenue sharing (between the private party and the local authority) scheme can be
devised to make the initiative sustainable.
Generally speaking, public transport today suffers from a poor image—slow,

overcrowded, dirty and unsafe. Involvement of the private sector can help in
addressing this problem to some extent.
There exist a number of agencies whose activities are directly or indirectly have a
bearing on the transport operations of a city. The local municipal Government
provides roads, infrastructure like bus stands, regulates traffic along with the traffic
police, controls construction, and so on; the local city development authority
discharges town planning functions; the police regulates traffic; the public works
department has responsibility for roads and bridges; the development authorities
carry out city planning; the pollution control board enforces emission norms; the tax
authorities impose and collect different taxes; and so on. Coordination between
various agencies is indispensable to achieve an overall quality of transport services
in cities.

Although the State is implementing several initiatives like construction of Bus Rapid
Transport System (BRTS), fly-overs, ring-roads and by-pass roads etc. to reduce
the number of km travelled between two points (and thereby reduce the fuel
consumption) in a couple of cities, but this plan needs to be broadened to cover
atleast all the urban centres for far greater results.
The State authorities need to evaluate opportunities for strengthening infrastructure

for promoting non-motorized transport means in cities to reduce GHG emissions
and improvement of urban air quality.
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Route planning forms one of the most critical ingredients of a successful public
transport improvement strategy. It influences passenger demands, passenger
satisfaction, operating costs and perception of non-users. Transportation experts
should decide whether a hub and spoke or grid or trunk and feeder systems is
suitable for a city. Routes should be planned on a scientific basis, after discussions
with all stakeholders.
Technologies available to enhance public transport performance should be put to

use. Some of these technologies include integrated ticketing and fare collection
systems (numerous sales outlets, ticketing machines, multiple purchasing options);
information systems (telephone lines, web pages, online journey planners,
audiovisual equipment at stations); real time GPS (global positioning system) in
public transport vehicles to track vehicles, and warn about delays and breakdowns;
modern buses with low floors, pneumatic double door, and rear engine; etc.
11.7 Land use

Roadside avenue plantations can be gainfully used to sequester carbon in the key
cities of the State in the first phase. Particular road stretches and effective and
tolerant species can be identified for specific regions in the demonstration phase
and could be replicated throughout the State in the later stages.
The development of residential/commercial buildings/structures in the cities should
be sustainable and environment friendly. The material used for the buildings should
be non-polluting, local, and appropriate for the process of future deconstruction.
The strategies to achieve this should include reduction in the amount of material
consumed, promotion of reuse, use of recycled materials, minimization and
management of wastes for reutilization and recycling, and use of materials that
reduce the environmental impact. The use of onsite sources and sinks by bio-
climatic architectural practices should be optimized; power requirements to the
buildings need to be minimized; and use of efficient lighting, air-conditioning;
efficient day lighting integration, use of renewable sources of energy, use of
efficient waste and water management practices need to be maximized.

The master plans or the development plans for the urban centres need to
incorporate Climate Change concerns in an objective and scientific manner keeping
the short-term, mid-term, and long-term needs and implications into consideration.
Land use planning and enforcement of development rules based on risk: Land
use planning should be based on risk characterization exercise which considers
flood prone, water logging prone areas and discourages development here. The
drainage pattern of the city is considered while doing the land use plan, but at later
stages due to market demands, this consideration takes a back seat. But it should
be essential component for areas that are at risk for flooding and so appropriately
dealt with.
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For areas prone to pronounced heat waves and to maintain a healthy livable
environment, deliberate attempts have to be made to increase the green cover
within and outside cities. Leaving of green belts at urban periphery along with
extensive plantation plans within cities would reduce incidence of heat island effect
besides providing with clean and green cities.
Urban land use planning should be totally guided by various parameters of urban
form like density, land use mix, city shape, street patterns, orientations, traffic
growth and its effect on travel demand and trip length. This would enable
consideration of geographic and socio-economic constraints while planning for
transportation/habitat/industrial growth in urban areas.
Procurement legislations for energy- and water-saving equipment, appliances, and
fixtures should be introduced for all public buildings in at least Class I and Class II
cities by the StateGovernment and accordingly each development authority should
amend the building bye-laws of municipalities and corporations coming under their
respective jurisdiction in a defined time-frame.
Apart from these minimal mandatory requirements, building certification system
(such as GRIHA) should be popularized to recognize high-performance buildings.
Benchmarking and certification of buildings at the time of rental and sale should be
put into place and initially should be made mandatory for all commercial buildings
with a built-up area above a certain range. To begin with, the certification system
should be simple and just a quantitative assessment of total energy consumption
over the year per square metre.
Mandatory and subsidized audits (energy and water) should be done for already
existing public buildings, followed by high-efficiency retrofit to make them role
model/ demonstration projects. Mandatory audits could be done for industrial and
commercial buildings above a certain built-up area and energy use. Voluntary
audits of other private buildings should be incentivized through appropriate
measures.

Builders are apprehensive of the incremental cost they bear to build green buildings
whose benefits automatically get transferred to the consumers. This could be
overcome once there is enough demand in the market for green buildings, which is
possible through market transformation and a strong education and public outreach
programme.
Identification of locally available eco-friendly building material and research on
production of such resources is required to reduce use of brick and mortar and
thereby reduce the carbon content of the buildings.
Taking into considerationthe strategies mentioned above, the Departments proposed a

series of programmes/ activities that could be likely undertaken to tap the existing
mitigation potential and adaptation opportunities. It is interesting to note that the Urban
Local Bodies have also participated in preparation of State Action Plan through
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proposing projects that could be done at local level.
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Programme of Action for Urban Development

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n Climate Resilience Strategies for
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nt state
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ration in commercial Energy Efficiency efficiency in
and residential Building Code GIFT city
buildings of (ECBC) for the
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(GIFT) City
3 Home Efficient To conserve water, 13.5 10 Promotion of
Depa conservation of reducing ground water
rtmen Rain Water, water conservation
t through rain depletion/dependenc
(Guja water harvesting e by rain water
rat systems for large harvesting systems
State scale housing for large scale
Polic and infrastructure housing and
e projects taken up infrastructure projects
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ng Corporations.
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oratio and Renewable and Renewable Conservation
n Energy options Energy options and and use of
Ltd.) and steps for steps for large scale alternative
large scale housing and sources of
housing and infrastructure projects energy
infrastructure taken up by
projects taken up Corporations.
by Corporations.
5 Use of alternate Utilization of alternate 13.5 10 Reduction in
energy efficient energy efficient overall carbon
building materials building materials footprint though
and construction and construction alternate
technologies technologies in energy efficient
building complexes, building
calculation of material and
reduction of Carbon construction
emissions technologies.
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Sr Depa Project Project Objective/ Budg Proj Outcomes

No rtme Outcomes et in ect
. nt/Off Crore dura
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s on Urban planned development reductions and
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Taking into consideration the strategies mentioned above, the Departments proposed a
series of programmes/ activities that could be likely undertaken to tap the existing
mitigation potential and adaptation opportunities. It is interesting to note that the Urban
Local Bodies have also participated in preparation of State Action Plan through
proposing projects that could be done at local level.
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Cross-Sectoral Themes
12.0 Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency

In energy terms, though Gujarat’s hydel potential and thermal potential is limited, it has
been blessed in renewable energy resources. It get 300 days of sunshine, strong winds
along its long coastline, and possesses the scope for energy plantations in its vast
wastelands, it also has the ability to generate energy from bio, agro and industrial–
waste. Hence, it certainly becomes an imperative for Gujarat to harness it non
conventional source of energy.
12.1 Strategies for renewable energy and energy efficiency

Energy reduction efforts are of prime importance in Gujarat, where economic growth
and development are moving at a rapid pace. The State Government accepts that
without significant gains from energy efficiency energy use and greenhouse gas
emissions will be growth will untenable. However, the Government estimates energy
use could be reduced significantly through advanced technologies, which will restrict
the projected increase in emissions, and aims to generate the investments required for
the purpose. Support can be assured from the National Solar Mission and National
Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency.
A large number of initiatives are being taken by the Central government to target energy
efficiency and ito promote renewable energy namely the PAT scheme and the REC
scheme.
Perform, Achieve and Trade (PAT) schemefalls under the National Mission for
Enhanced Energy Efficiency (NMEEE) and was launched by BEE. It is a first of its kind
market-based mechanism that targets energy efficiency in developing nations. The
scheme aims to incentivize energy efficiency in the large energy-intensive industries
wherein certification of energy savings can be traded. Improvements targets in energy
efficiency have been currentlyset for nine industrial sectors, namely aluminum, cement,
chlor-alkali, fertilizers, iron and steel pulp and paper, railways, textiles and thermal
power plants, as Designated Consumers (DCs) under section 14 of the Energy
Conservation Act, 2001(BEE, 2014). The program aims to save at least 5% on energy
costs, which equates to 9.8 million tons of oil equivalent, or 5,600 MW of avoided
capacity addition (Sopher and Mansell, 2012). Gujarat along with Maharashtra,
Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu have 48% of DCs so Gujarat can position itself very well in
the energy efficiency market (CII, ).
The Renewable energy Certificate (REC) program is a market based trading system
whose primary purpose is to promote renewable energy across India independent of the
region’s renewable power generation capacity. The REC systems contributes
significantly to renewable energy generation goals outlined by the NAPCC. (GOI).
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Under this program, State Regulatory Commissions (SERCs) set targets for power
companies to purchase a certain percentage of their total power from renewable
sources called Renewable Purchase Obligations Standards (RPOs). In order to comply
with their RPOs or profit from a surplus of RECs, trading of RECs either within or across
states is carried out. Gujarat as state that has always been invested in renewable
energy has announced that 10% of energy procurement to come from renewable
sources, for its obligated entities for the year FY17(Gujarat Electricity Regulatory
Commission (GERC), 2014)
The year‐wise RPO targets effective April 2014 have been tabulated below:
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Box 19: National Solar Mission National Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency

National Solar Mission
The National Solar Mission aims at promoting ecologically sustainable growth while
addressing India’s energy security challenge. It aims to generate 20,000 MW of solar
power by 2020 by setting up megawatt scale solar power plants,
The main objectives include-

• Deployment of commercial solar technologies
• Establishing solar research facilities
• Integrating private sector manufacturing capacities for solar materials and
equipments,
• Providing funding for these activities,
• Enhancing policy and regulation measures for enhancing and promoting solar
technologies.
The mission also aims for local photovoltaic production from integrated facilities at a level
of 1000MW/annum. It would also aim to install 1000 MW of concentrating solar power
generation capacity.
National Mission for Enhanced Energy (EE) Efficiency

The mission aims have 10,000 MW of EE savings by 2020 by accelerating shift to energy
efficient appliances, market based mechanisms and fiscal instruments
• Mandating decreases in large energy consuming industries, providing a framework

to certify excess energy saving and facilitating trading of the excess savings
amongst companies to meet their compliance.
• Providing incentives on tax for promoting energy efficiency. Differential taxation on
appliances that have been certified as energy efficient.
• Creation of energy efficiency financing platforms for public-private partnership to
capture energy savings by demand side management programs in agriculture,
municipal and building sector.
12.2 Renewable energy initiatives

In Gujarat, actions addressing Climate Change concerns are concurrent with planning.
The State has undertaken a large number of unprecedented initiatives addressing both
mitigation and adaptation through its various policies and programmes.
The initiatives taken up by Gujarat are unique for reduction in carbon emission. The
actions taken up are reflected in policies of Gujarat as well as small and large projects
that are being implemented. Few of the initiatives are described below.
12.2.1 Solar energy initiatives in Gujarat

With high solar radiation levels for almost 300 days in a year, Gujarat has vast potential
for Solar Power Generation Projects. The State has thus come up with a
comprehensive Solar Power Policy in 2009 with the following features:
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Solar Power Generators (SPG) installed and commissioned during the operative
period to become eligible for incentives for a period of 25 years from the date of
commissioning or for the life span of the SPG whichever is earlier.
A maximum of 500 Mega Watts SPG to be allowed for installation during the policy
period up to 31.3.2014.
The minimum project capacity of a SPG, in case of Solar Photovoltaic (SPV) and
Solar Thermal (ST) to be 5 megawatt each.
Electricity generated from the SPGs to be exempted from payment of Electricity
Duty and also from demand cut to the extent of 50 per cent of installed capacity.
Purchase price of electricity from Solar Photovoltaic at Rs.13/unit and for Solar
Thermal at Rs.10/unit.
The solar projects to be established pursuant to this policy in the State are expected to
generate 20,000 million units of electric power annually. These projects are expected to
result in reduction of almost 21 million tonnes CO2 emission every year.
12.2.2 Gandhinagar as Solar City

City of Gandhinagar is being developed into a “Solar City” on the basis of the master
plan prepared by TERI, where in the major energy demands will be fulfilled through
non-conventional sources of energy
In order to achieve this following initiatives have been taken up in the State Capital.
2 MW solar power projects in Gandhinagar
Grid tied roof top projects for sale to utility for 4,600 kW
6 projects of wind solar hybrid for captive use for 60kW
127 Nos. Solar stand alone power packs at residences of 1kW each
125 solar street lights for roads and parks
210 Nos. solar water heaters at residences and 4 Nos. solar water heaters at
instituted for 52.5MW and 15 MW respectively
30 LED street lights for 2250 kW
Replacement of 14,000 ordinary lights to energy efficient tube lights (T-5) for 392
kW
Replacement of 8000 bulbs with CFL for 160 kW
15 investment grade energy audits in buildings.
12.2.3 Smart grid project
As a pilot project, a smart grid for demonstration project has been set-up at
Gandhinagar.A smart grid delivers electricity from suppliers to consumer using digital
technology to save energy, reduce cost and increase reliability and transparency. Such
a modernized electricity network is a method of addressing in dependence including the
key aspect of efficient integration of distributed sources of renewable energy, if required.
The pilot project consists of monitors stationed at thirteen building of Sachivalaya of 10
KW solar PV Grid connected rooftop systems. This monitors the data of electricity
generation, CO2 emission reduction and coal savings of all the systems, individually and
collectively, on weekly basis. Gujarat Energy Development Agency (GEDA) will be the
Nodal agency for coordination. The output of the Monitor is as shown in Figure 45 and
Figure 46.
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Figure 41: Generation report of solar panel installation at Sachivalaya site
Figure 42: Sachivalaya smart grid report
12.2.4 Wind energy initiatives

In year 2013, an amendment in the Wind Energy Policy was announced to tap the
10,000 megawatts potential along the coastal areas of the State. The key features of
the policy included Power sale tariff increase to Rs.4.15 per unit and Renewable
energy power purchase obligation increase from the existing 5.5 to 10 per cent. Today,
this policy has undergone major revisions to attract even more investors in the field.
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Figure 43: Wind Power Addition in Gujarat
In November 2008, Gujarat notched the first prize and won the Best Wind
Developer State Award for maximum capacity additions in wind power
generation for the year 2006-08.
Gujarat has achieved tremendous growth in the field of wind energy. As depicted in
graph in figure 47, Gujarat has total 3352MW of total capacity installed as on March
31, 2014.
Energy generation potentialper annum is 6,704 MUs, which will help avoiding 6.70
million tons of CO2 emissions and annual saving of 4.68 million tonnes of coal
avoided from burning.. Investment made is Rs.20,000 Crores.
12.2.5 Vibrant Gujarat 2011 – Promotion of renewables

Vibrant Gujarat has become an important feature of growing Gujarat. With respect to
renewable energy, Vibrant Gujarat 2011 has signed 66 MOUs. Table 25, shows the
details of MOUs signed.
Table 24: Summary of MOUs signed during Vibrant Gujarat 2011
Sector No of MW in Expected
MOUs Crores Employment
Solar Equipment Manufacturing 36 2440 22346 27500
Wind Power Generation 28 5071 33576 10142
Tidal Power Generation 1 250 5367 2440
Electromagnetic energy 1 1617
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Sector No of MW in Expected
MOUs Crores Employment
Total 66 7761 61289 40082
12.6 Energy efficiency initiatives
12.6.1 Energy efficiency demonstration in the State capital

Gandhinagar, the State capital, has been promoted as a model for energy efficiency
demonstration, beginning with the Secretariat complex and other important
Government offices. Various measures like replacing conventional lights with T/5 tube
lights, Metal Halide fittings to reduce energy consumption; application of sustained
Red, Green and Blue Light fittings in Assembly hall to reduce electricity consumption
with as increase in illumination level from 350 lumens to 550 lumens; replacement of
air conditioners and cooling tower; etc have been undertaken.
12.6.2 Energy audits in Small and Medium Enterprises

The Industrial Energy Audit Scheme was launched by Gujarat in 1985-86 to promote
energy conservation as well as the concept of energy audit & monitoring in the
industrial sector. Over 1200 industries were audited under this scheme. These audits
were conducted by qualified energy auditors and the cost of audits was subsidized by
the government.
The Government of Gujarat, in year 1990, introduced a Mandatory Energy Audit
Scheme for industries having electrical CD of 200 kVA & above. About 8000 industries
of Gujarat are covered under this mandate which requires each industry to be energy
audited once in 3 years.
GEDA for the first time in the country introduced the Walkthrough Energy Audit
Scheme for SME sector in year 2009 with the objective of spreading energy
conservation awareness amongst the huge SME sector of the State. Since then
walkthrough energy audits in over 2000 SMEs, in selected clusters, have been
conducted. Office of the Industries Commissioner, GoG also has various fiscal
incentive schemes for promoting energy & water conservation in SMEs.
12.6.3 Energy audits in Government buildings

Gujarat Energy Development Agency also does Government and public building audits.
Under the mandate given by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (GoI) GEDA has
conducted Investment Grade Energy Audits (IGEA) in 40 Government owned buildings
all over the state since year 2009. The buildings included civil hospitals, Municipal
Corporation Offices, MS Office Buildings, town halls, government colleges and office
buildings of boards & corporations.
12.6.4 Action for energy reforms taken up in Gujarat

Energy Sector Reforms pose a daunting challenge for State Governments due to
serious political fallouts, since it concerns millions of farmers in addition to dealing with
strong unions of workers and other vested interests in gigantic Government Electricity
Utilities. Gujarat, however, prepared a careful road map suggesting the framework for
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separation of generation, transmission and distribution of electricity in the State to

make the power sector more dynamic and sensitive to the needs of changing times.
And hence, the Gujarat Electricity Industry (Reorganization and Regulations) Act was
enacted in May 2003, before the Central Government enacted a similar legislation. A
rationally worked out power transmission and distribution system, which has now
ensured adequate access to electricity even in the remotest village of the State. This
has also lead to reduced transmission losses from 31 to 22 per cent in the last four
years.
The focus was also on power generation efficiency through adoption of better operation
and maintenance practices by State Utilities, modernizing of the thermal units,
promotion use of washed coal and promotion of gas based power plants. Gujarat State
Electricity Corporation Limited (GSECL) has set up a 219 Mega Watts Gas based
combined cycle power plant which is estimated to reduce emissions of up to 2,14,000
tCO2 per annum.

Promote private investment in renewable sector
Energy Audits of Power Plants, Renovation and Modernization of low
performance power plants
Promote use of green technologies
12.7 Key Strategies
12.7.1 Renewable energy

Although currently thermal power generation comprises the lion’s share of the energy
mix in the State, Gujarat has an aggressive and ambitious plan to exploit renewable
sources of energy. However, these policies and action plans need to be further up-
scaled and made more ground-breaking to harness the economically exploitable and
feasible RE potential the State is endowed with owing to its geographical location. This
should apply for 'both - mature and immature technologies. Mature technologies with
established markets like wind, solar heating etc., and technologies which are mature
but the market support in the country/State is relatively new and immature technologies
like - geothermal, landfill gas, municipal solid waste-to-energy, anaerobic digestion,
biodiesel, co-firing of biomass, concentrating solar dishes and troughs, solar-assisted
air conditioning and tidal energy etc.
The wide gap between actual RE generation and the existing potential in the State
indicates that there is a long way to go. Renewable resources need to be exploited by
giving them a commercial orientation, encouraging private and foreign direct
investment and simplifying procedures, providing of fiscal and financial incentives. It is
interesting that the cost of power generation through photovoltaic technology is
reducing due to reduction in cost of solar cells and therefore it is essential to promote
solar power generation for grid and off-grid connected solar projects.
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12.7.1.1 Research and development
Large scale grid integration of RE power brings in a number of issues pertaining to

policy, technical and regulatory in nature especially in case of intermittent sources
like wind and solar. Increased share of intermittent power poses difficulty in grid
operation. The nature and complexity of these issues would vary depending upon
the relative magnitude and spatial distribution of the RE source and grid
characteristics. GoG may like to take up a comprehensive study to analyze these
aspects up-front to in order to optimally develop the RE resources and ensure their
effective operation as part of the grid.
The State needs to undertake an extensive study to assess the impacts of Climate
Change on various potential sources of renewable energy in the State, e.g.
changes in rainfall pattern, water availability, wind direction/frequency/intensity;
biomass availability in different regions; impacts on sea level and height/frequency
of sea waves etc.
Renewable energy resources and their applications in generating electricity,
including their roles in terms of contribution to the total generation mix is most often
considered collectively. However, wind, photovoltaic, solar thermal, biomass and
geothermal energy, etc options are largely unrelated technologically; each has its
own developmental status, readiness, and economic challenges. Thus there is a
need for a research study based on modeling, simulation, and future energy
scenario analyses to help guide investments in renewable energy and identify the
appropriate role of diverse renewable resources
Further, a study needs to be undertaken to identify the technological status
(existing as well as prospective up-gradation) and specific R&D requirements
particularly in biomass, solar, tidal and geothermal energy in independent as well
as in hybrid mode (in terms of contribution to the State’s/region’s energy-mix)
based on locally available prospective resources.
The above study also needs to prepare an inventory of best practices adopted
elsewhere in the country/globally (under similar conditions of resource endowments
and implementation barriers) on renewable energy and energy conservation
application in view of the geo-climatic condition of the State.
The study results should also reflect datasets on feasibility (financial/technical) of
installation of windmills and decentralized solar solutions etc, bio-resource
assessment of specific areas of the State and load and demand assessment and
mapping of current and the targeted energy-mix for the State.
The research study should also aim at assessing how renewable energy promotion
strategies can be used to generate local employment and also address socio-
economic concerns of the targeted region.
R&D initiatives also need to develop solar lighting systems appropriate to the
region.
Technological research needs be to undertaken to develop indigenous and cost
effective (local adaptations, considering local limitations and resources) versions of
some of the not-so-common technologies like geothermal energy, tidal energy,
alternative fuels for surface transportation, biofuel (including second generation),
hydrogen energy, fuel cells etc. The developed technologies in the process can be
used as prototypes in demonstration projects showcasing RE use.
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In order to implement waste to energy projects on a large scale studies need to be

carried out to assess waste generation, composition, calorific content, estimates of
emissions from this sector at the State level.
One of the reasons for limited installation/commissioning of biomass-renewable
energy generation is inadequacy of the input material. To overcome this use of
alternatives to cattle dung like poultry dropping, agriculture wastes, industry wastes
like press mud, wastes from sago industry, bagasse from sugar mills and dairy
industry etc. need to be encouraged. However, this needs to be backed by
adequate research taking into consideration local conditions and waste
specifications.
12.7.1.2 Policy support
Some of the key barriers that put renewable energy sources at an economic,
regulatory, and institutional disadvantage relative to conventional forms of energy
supply include subsidies for conventional forms of energy, high initial capital costs
coupled with lack of fuel-price risk assessment, imperfect capital markets, lack of skills
or information, poor market acceptance, technology prejudice, financing risks and
uncertainties and high transactions costs etc. Therefore in order to tap its vast RE
potential, the State hasdevised anew (and upscale/upgrade existing policies) policy
framework to address some of these impediments.
In fact progressive policy-making backed by appropriate technological research has the
greatest impact on promotion of renewable energy generation. Markets alone cannot
make renewable energy cost-competitive; the State Government will have to accelerate
the use of renewable resources through effective policy measures.
Since, energy conservation measures and renewable energy technologies go hand
in hand so far as Climate Change mitigation is concerned; the current practice of
treating both in isolation needs to be changed. What is required instead is, to
implement energy efficiency measures in processes, equipment, appliances, and
devices and then explore the possibility of utilizing renewable energy technologies
to meet the balance energy needs. This would also help in accelerating the
penetration of renewable energy technologies, considering the fact that the upfront
costs of renewable energy devices are on the higher side. This calls for a paradigm
shift from supply domination to an integrated approach – a judicious mix of
operational efficiency improvement, end use efficiency and renewable energy
technologies.
GoG may like to develop a comprehensive Renewable Energy Vision and
Perspective Plan 2020.
Role of GEDA being central to the proposed action plan, it needs to be
strengthened, including developing a long –term plan of capacity building.
The rural energy programme need to be well integrated with State’s other
development programmes/schemes such as NREGA, rural development, poverty-
alleviation, and social welfare so that rural energy becomes a focal point for
income-generation as well.
Rather than taking up R&D in piece-meal basis, it may be helpful for GEDA to
develop a R&D roadmap for the State, keeping in view State-specific needs and
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geographical conditions. The roadmap would have clear-cut milestones, quantum

and nature of resources (both, financial as well as technical expertise) that are
required to reach the predetermined goals. The exercise would comprise, among
others, following key elements.
• Chart the growth and need areas based on users demands
• Identify technologies, which need further push in terms of investment in R&D for
quality, product utility, wider scale of applications, and improved scale of
production etc.
• Identification of gaps in technology and product design.
• Ways for improving the system efficiency and reliability, reducing material
intensity, and use of alternate low cost material.
• In case of important technology, chalk out clear requirement in terms of its
adaptation and indigenization.
• Exploring ways to reach ‘economics of scale’ so as to bring down the costs.
• Long term planning (at least 10 years down the line) in terms of technology
development as well as commercialization
• Financial implications at each stage.
Due to its pioneer role in promotion of renewable energy in the country, a significant
infrastructure has emerged for the manufacture of different renewable energy
systems/components in the State. On the other hand there are institutions in the
State that are engaged in developing the specialized human resources. Against this
background, and to leverage the expertise that Gujarat has developed in the field
over the years, it can establish itself as a ‘Renewable Energy Manufacturing Hub’
for manufacturing renewable energy systems, devices and their components. Apart
from (a) servicing the domestic markets with standard equipment and devices and
(b) bringing down the costs of renewable energy systems through economies of
scale (and therefore ease of introduction of the latest technologies/processes); this
Hub could cater to the growing export markets as well.
Adequate funds may be earmarked in the annual budget of respective Departments
of Government of Gujarat to promote and implement RE and energy conservation
programmes. To finance its RE related programmes, the GoG may levy a ‘green
cess’ on conventional electricity and fuels in the lines of National Clean Energy
Fund and Maharashtra’s Urjankur Nidhi Fund.
GEDA designs its programmes with certain objectives, which are not merely
‘numbers of systems installed’. There is a need to devise a mechanism wherein all
the programmes are appraised on continued basis to evaluate the efficacy of the
programme vis-à-vis the targets. The field evaluation of the installed systems would
form an intrinsic part of such an exercise. Independent organizations may be
engaged to carry out this exercise.
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12.7.1.3 Technology development, demonstration, and deployment
Use of solar energy for street lighting, powering advertising boards and traffic lights,
etc.Grid and off-grid connected Solar Power Project for Government buildings of
the state may be installed to meet 60% electricity requirements
Photovoltaic pumping systems provide an excellent alternative to fuel burning
generators or hand pumps. They provide water precisely when it is needed the
most, when the sun shines the brightest. Solar pumps are simple to install and
maintain. Advantages of using PV-powered pumps include low maintenance, ease
of installation, reliability, and scalability.
Besides promoting use of Decentralized Distributed Generation (DDG) systems in
the urban centres, mass scale deployment of RE generation technologies in the
rural areas needs to be aggressively promoted. Cooking, irrigation pumping and
lighting are the dominant energy-using activities, accounting for more than 90% of
rural energy use. Any energy interventions for these end uses would have a major
impact on the quality of life of and GHG emissions from the sector. Installation of
improved cook stoves, biogas for cooking, and biomass gasifiers for decentralized
power generation, of solar for lighting, cooking and running irrigation pumps etc.
need to be encouraged.
12.7.1.4 Capacity building
The availability of information and expertise is critical to the successful introduction

of any new technology and more so with respect to decentralized renewable energy
generation. Where customer decision-making is required, as it is for many
renewable energy technologies, information must be available in a form that is
readily understood and allows comparison with alternatives. For all users,
information is necessary on initial and ongoing costs, installation and maintenance
requirements, performance, lifetime, and any usage restrictions. This sort of
information has not been readily available for renewables in the country as a whole
and has made it difficult, even for enthusiastic users to choose renewable options.
Gujarat can take the lead and design a short and easy to understand (using
common terminologies) manual/handbook for potential consumers listing out all
options, costs involved (also vis-à-vis fossil fuels), expertise needed, merits,
demerits and future scenarios etc. to enable the consumers to make informed
choices.
Further, besides influencing consumers choices by providing them with information
on alternatives and costs; utility disclosure to customers of the fuel mixes used to
generate electricity can also act as means of increasing the efficiency of
competitive markets (conventional versus renewable). In addition to electricity
sources, disclosure of greenhouse emissions and other environmental indices also
provides important information in enabling consumer choice.
In addition, to accelerate market entry, it is necessary to educate the community on
the appropriate uses of the various renewable technologies and to counter current
misconceptions. Trade and professional training for the manufacture, installation,
andmaintenance of renewable energy systems and components should
supplement general awareness and education. Lack of trained personnel in the
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electricity supply, plumbing, electrical, and housing industries is directly responsible

for limiting sales of renewable technologies, as well as for inconsistent
performance.
The rural stakeholders need to be made more aware and educated to be able to
assess, adopt, adapt and absorb various RE technologies because a generic
information dissemination approach will not make the desired impact.
12.7.2 Strategies for energy efficiency

These strategies are designed to assist the transport, buildings, industry, power and
agriculture sectors to act on cost effective opportunities for improving energy efficiency,
since energy savings are valuable investments to restrict greenhouse gas emissions.
12.7.2.1 Transport
12.7.2.1.1 Research and development

State specific studies and research and development initiatives need to be
undertaken to identify and assess the potential of use of low-carbon alternate fuels
in the various modes of transport in the State. In addition, opportunities for blending
of biofuels with conventional fuels (fossil fuels) also need to be explored and
implemented through city-based demonstration initiatives.
The agencies also need to undertake assessment studies at the State level to
evaluate GHG emissions from the transport sector (both in terms of location and
mode) and also identify potential for modal shifts and use of low-carbon fuel across
the State.
Specific studies aiming at understanding and evaluation of how societal
preferences can be matched with transport options to lower GHG emissions; how
much travel or freight movement is expected in the near-term and long-term; what
mix of transport modes will be used/needed to provide passenger and freight
services; what is the impact of changing technology (fuel economy, fuel type,
emission controls) on fuel use and emissions; how can activities be reorganized to
reduce transport use; how should infrastructure and vehicle flow be managed to
reduce congestion or improve efficiency; and what investments are needed to meet
growing demand and improve efficiency needs to be carried out in a phased
manner- first targeting the metro cities in the State and then spreading to the other
urban locations.
12.7.2.1.2 Policy support

The policy framework should mandate use of cleaner (low-carbon) fuels like CNG,
blended ethanol etc. in atleast all the public transport facilities in all the major cities
of the State.
The policies need to ensure stringent enforcement of traffic/driving rules and fuel
efficiency norms across the State. This will not only reduce air pollution caused by
the sector but would also minimize problems like traffic congestion and accidents
and save on fuel.
Besides use of regulatory instruments, financial incentives for use of mass transport
systems and fiscal incentives and subsides for use of alternative fuels and vehicles
etc, can be introduced to accomplish higher fuel and energy efficiency in the sector.
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12.7.2.1.3 Technology development, demonstration, and deployment

Many technologies and strategies are at hand to reduce GHG emissions from the
transport sector. However, the most promising strategy for the near term is incremental
improvements in current vehicle technologies. Advanced technologies that provide
great promise include greater use of electric-driven technologies, including hybrid-
electric power trains, fuel cells and battery electric vehicles. The use of alternative fuels
such as natural gas, biofuels, electricity and hydrogen, in combination with improved
conventional and advanced technologies; provide the potential for even larger
reductions. In the near-term and mid-term, some of the technologies/strategies that can
be adopted by the State include:
Fuel efficiency improvements for vehicles which primarily comprise changes in
vehicle and engine design (e.g. hybrids).
Use of alternative fuel sources (replacing or reducing the use of fossil fuels) like
hydrogen or electricity from renewable power; biomass fuels like CNG and LPG
etc.; and fuel cell technology.
Changes like introduction of traffic and fleet management systems; mass

transportation systems and improved land-use planning; and modal shifts could be
brought about in the infrastructure and the overall transport management system to
achieve higher fuel efficiency.
Reduction in travel demand can be brought about through land use changes,
telecommunications etc.
12.7.2.1.4 Capacity building

Customized capacity building projects for traffic agencies, urban local bodies and
driving training institutes should be undertaken to ensure scrupulous
implementation of the set traffic rules and fuel efficiency norms to in turn achieve
effective transport management besides saving fuel and minimizing traffic
accidents.
12.7.2.2 Buildings
Energy efficiency in the buildings sector offers more potential for cost-effective
greenhouse gas emissions reductions than any other major abatement category.
Building energy performance is directly related to the design of the building envelope
(insulation, roofing, windows etc.) and the diverse systems and components within it,
such as lighting, appliances and heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC)
systems. Most of the energy-efficient building technologies are widely available today
and can reduce carbon emissions at a low or negative net cost in the long-run.
Furthermore, in addition to Climate Change benefits, improved energy-efficiency in the
sector can advance several development goals (co-benefits often not identified,
quantified or monetized) as well as strategic economic targets e.g. reducing mortality
and morbidity, poverty alleviation, improving social welfare, employment, and energy
security. Also, investments in energy efficient buildings and appliances can help to
delay investments in costly new electricity generation technologies.
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In terms of building equipment use of energy efficient space and heating (heat pumps,
CHP); efficient lighting, air conditioners, refrigerators and motors; efficient cook stoves,
household appliances, and electrical equipment and efficient building energy
management and maintenance can lead to significant energy savings and in turn GHG
emissions reductions.
In fact improved efficiencies in lighting offer the largest low-cost option to reduce
carbon emissions and save energy. Switching from incandescent to compact
fluorescent light bulbs (CFL) and light-emitting diodes (LED, solid State) improves
efficiency by 70-80%. In fact light energy savings also yields air cooling savings
(additional savings). Use of CFLs is already quite popular in the residential and
commercial buildings in the State with the Government promoting its use through
various awareness generation initiatives and policy instruments. LEDs have found
limited application in areas like traffic lights but need to popularized (over and above
CFLs) in the residential and commercial buildings citing advantages like more
controlled (in direction) lighting, can be combined and scaled into customized colors
and shapes, have longer lasting fixtures, and unlike CFLs, contain no mercury. Barriers
like high costs need to be addressed through policy/financial instruments and use of
market-based mechanisms to offset costs.

A research study to understand the consumption pattern in terms of appliance use,
peak consumption, timings, energy wastage sources/trends, potential saving
opportunities, least cost options for various levels (economically) of the society etc.
is urgently required to design and implement any policy or technology option in this
regard.
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In terms of building thermal integrity use of improved insulation and sealing
techniques, energy-efficient windows and proper building orientation would ensure
optimal transparency, emissivity and energy/heat exchange between the buildings
and the surroundings thereby minimize the energy consumption by the buildings.
Use of renewable sources of energy like solar, wind, etc. for active and passive
heating and cooling adhering to a climate-sensitive design and effective use of
natural light (“day lighting”) also goes a long way in minimizing the energy
requirements/wastage of buildings.
A key facet of energy efficiency in buildings is retrofitting, which allows
technological advancements to be applied to existing structures.
12.7.2.2. 3 Policy support

Adoption of energy efficient technologies and equipments in the buildings sector
can be promoted through regulatory measures like mandated energy-efficiency
performance standards, increasingly stringent over time and mandated appliance
efficiency standards and efficiency labeling. The State already has similar
policies/initiatives in place, a more broad-based and stringent enforcement of these
policies backed by information programs having a thrust on efficiency labeling and
demonstration projects can result in considerable energy savings from the sector.
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The regulatory approach should be adequately backed by an incentive approach,

for example incentives to consumers for use of new energy-efficient products,
incentives for manufacturers for development of energy-efficient products,
incentives for industry for voluntary adoption of energy efficiency standards.
The supporting policy framework should also encourage use of market based
mechanisms like CDM, voluntary market etc. to offset the extra investments made
in this regard.
The policies also need to have strong thrust on promotion of energy service
companies (ESCOs) in the State to ensure proper monitoring, verification and
enforcement of mandated/voluntary energy efficiency standards.
A minimum energy performance/prescriptive requirement should be made
mandatory at least for commercial buildings and for high-rise and big residential
buildings with a built-up area greater than some range.

Sustainability and energy efficiency in the sector of buildings is a complex concept
and involves many stakeholders. It requires the joint efforts of architects, builders,
planners, developers, technicians, policy-makers, industrialists and manufacturers.
A key role is also played by the end-user, not only through his/her responsibility to
use the building efficiently, but also through his/her demand for a sustainable
building. Thus, awareness raising and wherever needed capacity enhancement
initiatives should be undertaken to not only achieve energy savings but also ensure
proper synergy between all the stakeholders involved in the value chain.
12.7.2.3Industry
The industrial sector in the State is very diverse and involves a wide range of activities
including the extraction of natural resources, conversion into raw materials and
manufacture of finished products with manufacturing industry being the core economic
activity. The State boasts of some of the most energy intensive manufacturing sectors
like chemicals, petroleum refining, and oil and gas sector. Some of the other potential
sectors with respect to implementing energy efficiency opportunities include power,
textiles, dairy, food processing, and mining.
12.7.2..3.1 Research and development

The process of GHG emissions reduction mandates a good baseline
data/information about current level of emissions. For this purpose GHG
inventorization/profiling is the first step. Particular industry sectors/clusters can be
selected and the State agencies in association with the R&D/academic institutes of
the State can prepare the GHG profile reports in line with the best international
practices. Based on this data, a system of GHG auditing can be introduced. The
GHG profile reports can also serve as a critical input for the policy making and
monitoring performance of large industrial sectors/clusters with respect to carbon
efficiency. Large industries can submit GHG accounting as a part of their annual
report.
Gujarat has a large population of energy intensive MSME clusters (using inefficient
technologies, thus a huge potential for upgradation). Specific cluster programmes
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for MSMEs that are aimed at technology upgradation and improvement of energy
efficiency. Such interventions in different MSME sub-sectors would require
undertaking detailed diagnostic studies, focusing on technology and needs
assessment, designing, developing, and demonstrating energy efficient
technologies to suit local conditions, public-private partnerships, providing advisory
support to small units for disseminating these technologies.
12.7.2..3.2 Technology development, demonstration and deployment

Broadly speaking, energy conservation in industries can be achieved at three different
levels - active or efficient in-house management of energy efficiency through
maintenance and housekeeping measures (involves no or minimal investments);
replacement of selected equipments (which may require medium-size investments);
and modification of entire manufacturing processes and adopting State-of-the-art
technologies (which may require large scale investments).
Efficient in-house energy management (can lead to 5-10% energy savings) can be
accomplished through establishment of in-house energy management committees
or groups; designation of energy managers; data collection; improved maintenance;
and review of operational efficiency. Improvement of energy efficiency by
replacement of selected equipments (can lead to 10-15% energy savings) involving
medium-size investment costs may be through improved waste heat recovery;
better operation of thermal systems; co-generation of electricity and process heat;
and improvement of heat exchangers. Major industrial process modifications (can
lead to significant energy savings) involving large scale investments include
installation or improvements in advanced process controls; installation of waste
heat recovery generators; etc.
In combustion equipment, fuel efficiency can be improved through automatic

combustion control systems; efficient burners; and flue gas heat recovery. In heat
utilization and heat recovery facilities, energy efficiency can be improved through
high efficiency heat exchangers; improvement of heat insulation; heat pattern
control; high efficiency steam traps; and heat pumps. The use of co-generation
technology and absorption chillers are also important energy efficiency
improvement measures in industry.
Shift in technology and processes by replacing old or inefficient processes with

State-of-the-art technologies would help in substantial reduction in specific energy
consumption levels but would require huge investments and proper planning.
Substitution of fossil fuel based energy sources with low- and no-carbon power
sources (e.g., natural gas, biomass, wind, solar) or exploring co-firing options (use
of coal with biomass or wastes etc.) and adoption of materials efficiency techniques
to reduce materials waste or increase materials utilization/recycling can also result
in significant energy savings and thereby GHG abatement.
A large number of MSME units use outdated technologies which are inefficient.
Cluster intervention in MSME’s would be required to bring about energy efficiency
improvements in the MSME sector. Further, appropriate region specific renewable
energy must be promoted to reduce the consumption of commercial energy in
industrial units.
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12.7.2..3.3 Policy support

The State authorities are quite aware of the impacts of the changing climate on the
industrial and economic development of the region and the current policies in the
sector (like the new Industrial Policy) do reflect some of these concerns (e.g. use of
renewable energy sources, water conservation and recycling techniques, reduction
of carbon footprints, use of market-based mechanisms etc.). But there is a need for
revisiting these policies (and others like the Gujarat SEZ Act, etc.) to not only
propose/mandate ways and means on GHG emissions reduction but move a step
ahead and develop State level baselines and time-based policy goals with respect
to Climate Change mitigation.
The regulatory approach in this context needs be pertinently complemented with an
incentive approach like tax breaks/incentives for energy efficiency, fuel switching,
and reduction in GHG emissions or removal of market barriers in the way of
implementation of the not-so common technologies/processes. Financial incentives
can stimulate investment in energy-efficient technologies by reducing cost and
helping to raise awareness. Examples include subsidies, grants, and tax benefits,
such as tax reductions, tax exemptions, or accelerated depreciation. Considering
energy efficiency investments must compete with projects that are central to a
company’s product line or mandated by regulation, incentives can tilt a company’s
investment decision toward energy efficiency.
The regulatory/policy framework in this regard also need to address the barriers to
the development and deployment of energy-efficient industrial technologies and
practices. Some of these barriers include conflicting market signals, limited capital
availability, inadequate information flow, lack of expertise, inadequate workforce
capabilities, performance risks and costs for new technology, insufficient capital
allocation for upgrades, and counterproductive policies.
In order to promote energy efficiency in MSME clusters a PPP model comprising
industry, R&D institutions/academia, service providers, technology
providers/manufacturers, and Government would have to be devised for desired
results.

Creating awareness and building of capacities on Climate Change issues is of great
significance especially in the industry sector. Training programs for on-site/off-site
technical staff and all other relevant stakeholders should include educating them
and enhancing their familiarity with the intricacies of the plant operations to enable
them to evaluate and communicate to management the energy matters specific to
their plant. The staff should be made aware of the processes related to annual
monitoring and reporting of progress towards energy goals, using reporting
mechanisms supported by standardized protocols analogous to GHG reporting
registries; benchmarking information, collected through annual monitoring and
reporting, etc.
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12.7.2.4 Power

The State needs to undertake an extensive study to study and assess the impacts
of Climate Change on energy systems and revisit the planning processes
accordingly. The rising atmospheric temperatures might result in significant
increases in electricity use and peak demand, or changes in rainfall pattern, water
availability etc., and/or may impact the hydro energy potential or biomass
availability of the State.
The distribution utilities in the State need to carry out a load research to understand
and assess category-wise demand and consumption data beyond the system level
demand i.e. data on contribution of sector or segment or end-use or technology to
the total demand and consumption, both, in terms of quantum and timing. In the
absence of such data, it is difficult to strategize and plan energy efficiency (EE) and
DSM programmes resulting in implementation of ad-hoc or at best demonstration or
pilot projects in this regard. Absence of planning data should be perceived as a
major constraint for speedy development and implementation of full-fledged State-
wide EE and DSM programmes.
12.7.2.4.2 Technology development, demonstration and deployment

Gujarat is one of the most attractive investment destinations in the country with an
active private sector working in close coordination with Government agencies.
These factors should enable the State to undertake steps to implement
technologies which have only managed to reach demonstration stage or small-
scale commercial application in the country but hold huge potential for the nation
and the State with regard to energy security. Some of these technologies include -
thin-film PV, concentrating PV, tidal energy, biomass gasification and pyrolysis, etc.
The State has rich resources of lignite and oil and gas reserves and in fact thermal
power generation accounts for around 80% of the total power scenario in the
region. The State is already promoting measures like adoption of better operation
and maintenance (O&M) practices (to reduce station heat rate and auxiliary
consumption); renovation and modernization (R&M) of low-performing/old units;
use of better quality-high calorific value coal (washed coal/imported coal); fuel
switching options (say from coal to gas); and regular energy audits to reduce the
net GHG emissions from such units. In addition to further promoting and up-scaling
these initiatives, the State needs to identify and create opportunities and supporting
framework for employment of more advanced technologies to generate more power
from the same amount of fuel. Clean coal technologies can play a critical role in this
direction. Some of these technologies include coal beneficiation (pre-combustion
coal de-watering, washing and briquetting), efficient use of coal seam methane, use
of advanced pulverized coal for supercritical/ultra-supercritical power generation,
Fluidized-bed combustion (FBC), Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC),
and super-advanced technologies like coal-to-liquids (CTL) in combination with
carbon sequestration or elimination technologies. In conventional thermal power
plants up to two thirds of the primary energy used to generate is lost in the form of
heat. Switching from condensing steam turbines to Combined Heat and Power
(CHP) (cogeneration) plants not only produces electricity but also captures the
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excess heat for use by municipalities for district heating, commercial buildings or
industrial processes. With the State witnessing rapid industrialization and
urbanization capturing this otherwise waste heat can lead to significant fuel and
energy savings. Current CHP designs can boost overall conversion efficiencies to
over 80%, leading to cost savings and hence to significant carbon-emissions
reductions per kWh generated.
With its rich gas base, the State can aggressively promote Combined Cycle Gas
Turbine (CCGT) because it is not only relatively superior to other fossil-fuel
technologies in terms of investment costs, fuel efficiency, operating flexibility, and
rapid deployment but also produces less CO2 per unit of energy output than coal or
oil technologies (because of higher hydrogen-carbon ratio of methane and the
relatively high thermal efficiency of the technology).
In order to sustain the growth of its economy, above and beyond implementing an
accelerated capacity addition, the State needs to operationalize a more efficient
transmission and distribution (T&D) system. Technologies like Smart Grid Design
(via automation using smart meters and other telecom network infrastructure); High
Voltage Direct Current (HVDC); Flexible Alternating Current Transmission Systems
(FACTS) (to increase power transfer capability and replace uneconomical
generators); underground distribution lines (to reduce 80 per cent of distribution
power losses); high temperature superconducting lines, cables, and transformers;
energy storage devices, etc. need to be implemented to cut down on the T&D
losses in the State. In addition, the State authorities need to upscale
implementation of measures which are already underway, like installation of lines
with higher transmission voltages and high voltage sub-stations and capacitor
banks, etc. to curb the T&D losses.
12.7.2.4.3 Policysupport
The State needs to develop an Integrated Resource Planning (IRP) process for
electric utilities to enable them to evaluate different options for meeting future
electricity demands and select the optimal mix of resources that minimizes the cost
of electricity supply while meeting reliability needs and other objectives.
In the traditional utility planning, planners take into consideration the demand to be
met, the reliability to be achieved, and applicable Government policies and
regulations. The planner then selects the types of fuels, power plants, distribution
systems and patterns, and power purchases that will meet these objectives with
minimum revenue requirement (the revenue the utility must collect to finance and
operate the power system). Options are selected only from the supply side (options
to supply more power) as opposed to the demand side (options to reduce electricity
demand) of the electricity system. Thus IRP will facilitate evaluation of all potential
options, from both the supply and demand sides, in a fair and consistent manner;
minimize costs to all stakeholders (and not just costs to the utility); and create a
flexible plan that allows for uncertainty and permits adjustment in response to
changed circumstances. Furthermore, the inclusion of demand-side options to
achieve energy savings presents more possibilities for saving fuel and reducing
negative environmental impacts than might be possible if only supply-side options
were considered.
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With mass deployment of Smart Grid technologies, the State can introduce the
innovative concept of dynamic pricing. With dynamic pricing, customers can
reduce their electricity bills by shifting consumption from higher-priced hours to
lower-priced hours. Shaping consumer behavior through dynamic pricing may
reduce the investment that utilities would need to make to increase production and
distribution capacity to meet the peak demand. In the Indian context, the concept of
dynamic pricing or Time of Day pricing (TOD tariff) has been implemented for large
consumers in most of the states. The State can evaluate this approach and explore
how this can be implemented for a larger set of stakeholders/consumers. In
addition, the State also needs to ensure that the TOD tariff policy in the region has
larger focus on DSM measures, which is not the situation currently.
The State is already pursuing several initiatives to accomplish potential energy
savings by adopting energy efficiency measures at the end-use stage (Demand
Side Measures). These and other such initiatives need to be more robust and
extensive to accomplish the maximum possible energy savings at the consumption
stage atleast in all the urban centres. An enabling framework should be created to
allow DSM technologies reach their full market potential for utmost results. Further,
currently, DSM and GHG emission mitigation measures are implemented quite
independently. DSM measures are implemented primarily to assist and improve the
operation of electricity systems and any impacts (positive or negative) of DSM
measures on Climate Change are only a minor consideration. Efforts to mitigate
GHG emissions from electricity production have focused on improving the efficiency
at the electricity generation and transmission and distribution stage. There is an
immediate need to reconcile these two different approaches so as to identify
circumstances in which DSM can contribute to mitigating GHG emissions and
emission mitigation measures can achieve benefits for electricity systems. To
achieve this some of the measures that the State can undertake include:
• SERCs should direct all the distribution utilities under their jurisdictions to
constitute DSM Cells within their organizations. SERCs should also identify
some of their staff for handling the DSM aspects.
• SERCs may direct all distribution utilities to submit DSM Plans along with
petitions for Annual Revenue Requirement (ARR) for the next tariff period.
• Cost of approved DSM programmes should be assessed and evaluated very
objectively and pre-identified sources of fund such as penal interest on late
payment of bills and/or load management charges could be earmarked for
financing DSM programmes.
• SERCs could also consider appropriate tariff interventions to support DSM.
These could be Time of Day (TOD) tariffs, power factor incentives and
penalty/reactive power charges, load management charges, rebate incentives
for energy efficient buildings/appliances and differential pricing for agriculture
consumers.
• SERCs could also consider giving a slightly higher return on equity for the
investments made towards DSM measures.
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• Distribution utilities may be encouraged to create their own energy service

companies as unregulated activity.
The State needs to create necessary infrastructure for implementation, monitoring
and verification of DSM programmes. The dedicated DSM Cells operating in all
distribution utilities can carry out these functions and other DSM related activities.

Recognizing that distribution utilities in the State have limited experience and
knowledge in establishment of EE and DSM programme development, financing
and implementation infrastructure, the SERCs should provide support and guidance
to the distribution utilities in this regard. In fact the SERCs will have to develop their
own capacity and also that of the distribution utilities in the areas of load research,
integrated resource planning and demand response etc. to implement effective EE
and DSM initiatives.
Training courses should be organized for capacity building (in the area of DSM) of
the personnel of the SERCs and the staff of DSM Cells of the utilities. The
representatives of the State Government may also be invited to such programmes.
The State already has several programmes on raising awareness on energy
efficiency and DSM measures especially in the urban centres. With the rising living
standards (and thereby increasing energy consumption) of the semi-urban and rural
populations of the State, these initiatives on energy conservation, especially with
regard to use of energy labeled appliances, standards for new buildings, concepts
about peak load, etc. need to be spread to these regions for greater results. The
relevant authorities from the urban locations (who are already part of such
initiatives for some time) can help in building the capacities of the rural authorities
to implement such programmes effectively.
12.7.2.5 Agriculture
It is worth noting that the bulk of energy consumed in the agriculture sector is
attributable to pumping for irrigation and to some extent power for farm machinery such
as threshers, tractors, etc. As discussed in the earlier sections, with the region
observing erratic and uneven rainfall, and the State Government implementing
numerous initiatives to bring more and more land under irrigation, use of agricultural
pump sets is fast increasing in the State. And to make the situations worse, the sector
has the largest population of inefficient pumps and systems in the country.
The initial high cost of energy efficient motors/pumps, poor pricing regimes, and lack of
knowledge about the long-term gains are the major factors responsible for sub-
optimum efficiencies.
12.7.2.5.1 Researchand development

A State specific study needs to be undertaken to identify key energy consuming
processes involved in the agriculture sector and the current barriers to adoption of
energy efficiency measures including financial, technical behavioral etc. The results
of such a study would enable in designing policy measures to promote DSM
measures in the sector.
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A further study needs to be carried out to assess the impact of electricity pricing for
the sector and the implementation of energy efficiency measures.
12.7.2.5.2 Technology development, demonstration and deployment

BEE has prepared an Agricultural DSM (Ag-DSM) programme in which pump set
efficiency upgradation would be carried out by Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) or
the distribution company. The Ag-DSM programme has already been initiated by BEE
and pilot projects in 5 states including Gujarat (others are Maharashtra, Haryana,
Punjab and Rajasthan) would be implemented in the first phase. Options are being
explored to understand how CDM can be used to enhance the profitability and viability
of this initiative. In addition, efforts are on to pitch in financial institutions to provide loan
to the project as well as adequate payment security mechanism to the investors.
Utilities can play the important role of monitoring and verification.
Broadly speaking, some of the technological changes/upgradation that the State shall
aim at bringing about to achieve energy savings in the sector include:
Conversion from high-pressure top impact sprinklers to low-pressure systems
results in significant energy savings. Low-pressure systems using drop tubes
deliver about one per cent more water for every foot of drop tube used because
evaporative losses are reduced. The lower the spray package, the more efficient
the system becomes. In this regard use of irrigation technologies like micro
irrigation systems (MIS) come very handy. The State is already pursuing most of
the MIS technologies not only to save energy but also address the issue of water
scarcity for the purpose. MIS are modern irrigation systems which include drip
irrigation, sprinkler irrigation and sub surface irrigation (porous type). MIS could
provide considerable savings in total water and energy demands from agriculture
sector. In fact Gujarat is among the leading states in the country in the use of MIS,
although the area covered under drip irrigation is 0.18% (Indiastat, 2009) with
respect to net irrigated area.
Minimizing frictional losses in irrigation pipes by using large diameter pipe on the
mainline and minimizing turns in the irrigation pipes can lead to substantial energy
savings (according to estimates, installation of a 12-inch versus a 10-inch mainline
saves 3 horsepower when the flow rate is 1,200 gallons per minute).
Installation of high- or premium-efficiency pump motor over a standard-efficiency

model saves atleast 3-5 per cent energy a month on electric consumption. More
efficient motors run cooler and last longer. In fact, motors that run under load at a
substantial duty cycle typically use electricity that costs 10 to 20 times their
purchase price each year. So investing in premium-efficiency motors can have a
very fast payback.
The pump and motor combination needs to be matched to flow and pressure
requirements. Over-sizing makes for inefficiencies that waste energy and cost
money. Installing variable speed drives (VSD) on existing motors allows for
modulating motor speed to achieve the desired flow. When irrigation requirements
change, flow can be adjusted quickly and accurately.
Replacement of worn nozzles and regulators also allows considerable energy

savings. A useful rule of thumb is that nozzle wear of 10% results in a 20%
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increase in flow. The average life expectancy of a nozzle and a regulator under
optimum conditions is around 8 to 10 years. However, during low-water conditions,
irrigation pumps must pull water from lower depths. This pushes more sand and silt
through nozzles and regulators, increasing wear. When such sediment is present,
life expectancy decreases to 3 to 5 years for nozzles and 5 years for regulators.
12.7.2.5.3 Policysupport
The issue of higher prices (~20-30% more) of energy efficient pumps needs to be
addressed through financial incentives like reductions in sales tax, abolishment of
octroi on energy efficient products, and reduction in customs and excise duty on
energy efficient equipments must be provided.
Further, since agricultural tariffs are usually the lowest and also highly subsidized
(not specific to Gujarat, at the country level) there is no incentive to the agricultural
consumer to improve efficiency of the pump set. Consequently, utilities are not able
to recover economic price on every unit of energy sold to these categories of
consumers and therefore need to aggressively target these consumers for DSM
measures. Some policy means need to be devised by the authorities to address the
situation without hurting the interests of the farmers.
Mandating some of the technology initiatives listed in the above section can go a long
way in promoting energy efficiency in the agriculture sector in the region, may be in a
phased manner and to start with on a pilot scale.
Programme of Action for Energy Efficiency &Renewable

Energy
Sr Depart Activity Project Objective Budget Proje Outcomes

No ment/Of in ct
. fice Crore durat
Name Rs. ion
1 Gujarat Installation of To install 30,000 nos. of 450 3 Achieving Energy
Energy Solar Solar Power Packs in security in Primary
Develop Photovoltaic Primary Health Centers of health centres
ment Power Pack for the State of Gujarat each
Agency Anganwadis. consisting of 1 kwh for
meeting their electricity
requirement . These
Power packs will generate
2,70,00,000 units of
electricity.
2 Installation of To install 1,000 Solar 15 2 To utilize the
Solar Photovoltaic Power Pack potential of
Photovoltaic in PHCs. Each off-grid generating solar
Power Pack in Power pack consisting of energy as a major
Primary Health 1 kWp of SPV modules, mitigation activity
Centers (PHC) module mounting
in Gujarat. structure, SPV charge
controller; Inverter,
Battery bank and
necessary hardware
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Considering 330 days

with proper sunlight, the
system installed may
annually generate approx.
9,90,000 units electricity,
which may save 900
tonnes of CO2 emission
and 630 Tonnes of coal
annually
3 Installation of Installation of 2,000 Solar 90 3 To utilize the
Solar Pumps Pumps (of 2 HP each) for potential of
for small small farmers in Gujarat generating solar
farmers in with minimum holding of 5 energy for purpose
Gujarat acres of land and of irrigation
maximum 30 m water
table.
4 Installation of Installation of 725 Solar 15 1 To utilize the
Solar Photovoltaic Power Pack potential of
Photovoltaic for e-Gram at Gram generating solar
Power Pack for Panchayats in the state. energy as a major
e-Gram at Considering 330 days mitigation activity
Gram with proper sunlight, the for e-Gram at
Panchayats in system installed may Gram Panchayats
the state annually generate approx.
4,78,500 units electricity,
which may save 478.5
tons of CO2 emission and
3,34,950 kgs of coal
annually
5 To conduct Creation of5MW Solar 25 3 To expand the
Solar Photovoltaic Rooftop potential of
Photovoltaic Programme under decentralised solar
Rooftop Gandhinagar-Solar City energy through the
Programme Project under Public solar roof-top
under Private Partnership model programme.
Gandhinagar-
Solar City
Project under
Public Private
Partnership
model
6 Installation of Installation of 3 MW Solar 25 1 Reduce the
Solar Photovoltaic Power Plant consumption of
Photovoltaic at the Ash Dyke of conventional
Power Plant at Gandhinagar Thermal energy through
Gandhinagar Power Station under setting up solar
Thermal Power Gandhinagar-Solar City. energy plants.
Station under
Gandhinagar-
Solar City.
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7 To study to the To examine the 26.2 Understand

Carbon behaviour, actions and sources of carbon
Footprint lifestyle patterns of emissions and
based on households in terms of consequently
lifestyle their carbon footprint and reduce Carbon
patterns in resource use and to emission through
Gujarat generate a database on innovative
through consumption patterns of solutions
Involvement of various stakeholders
youth and
women
8 Agricultu Replacing Replacing conventional 3.22 1 To reduce carbon
re & Co- conventional light with LED lamps content in the
operatio light with LED (3090 in nos.)in 183 atmosphere and
n lamps in APMCs spread in Gujarat, create awareness
Departm APMCs spread especially in economically on solar light, by
ent in Gujarat weak regions and those choosing a lighting
situated in tribal belt of the system which is
state. modern and
energy efficient.
9 Demonstration To reduce carbon content 11.9 1 Aimed at carbon
of Solar light in in the atmosphere and mitigation through
APMCs create awareness on solar lighting.
solar light by saving more
than 350 tons of CO2
emissions and saving
about Rs. 60.00 lakhs in
energy cost per annum.
10 Energy Installation of Installation of 5 MW solar 75 1 Green Energy
and solar plant on plant on the premises of generation and
Petroch the premises GNFC reduction of CO2
emicals of GNFC emissions
Departm
ent
(Gujarat
Narmad
a valley
Fertilizer
s
limited)
Total 736.32
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13.0 Vulnerable Communities
13.1 Strategies for empowerment of vulnerable communities

The IPCC states that “Climate Change impacts will be differently distributed among
different regions, generations, age classes, income groups, occupations and genders”
(IPCC, 2001). Climate Change can act as an additional stressor for households and
communities dependent for a major part of their livelihood on natural resources, whose
distribution and productivity are influenced by climate dynamics. Amongst the most
vulnerable are communities including tribals and indigenous people, marginal famers,
landless, urban poor, migrant workers and women as their livelihoods are intrinsically
dependent on natural resources and any stress on these would have a direct or indirect
Box 21: Gujarat’s initiatives for vulnerable communities
The National Action Plan on Climate Change has not incorporated strategies for
vulnerable communities. In Gujarat, various initiatives are taken for tribes and coastal
communities who can be considered as communities vulnerable to Climate Change.
Also several policies and programmes are in place for upliftment of weaker sections of
society.
impact on them.
13.1.1 Tribal and indigenous communities
Tribal and indigenous communities, due to their dependence upon, and close
relationship, with the environment and its resources are amongst the ones to face the
direct consequences of Climate Change. They directly depend upon on natural
resources for food; wood for timber or fuel; fibre for clothing; and medicinal plants for
health care etc. Climate Change may impact the availability and distribution of these
resources. Changes in ecosystem dynamics can in turn affect the use, protection and
management of wildlife, fisheries, and forests, and the customary uses of culturally and
economically important species and resources (IWGIA, 2008).
According to 2011 census, scheduled tribes comprise a population of 89.17 lakhs in

Gujarat. Tribal regions in the State comprise 43 tribal talukas, 15 pockets and four
clusters. Tribals of Gujarat mostly live along the eastern border of the State. The main
resources they depend on include agricultural land, forests and minerals (Gujarat Tribal
Development Department). Their main livelihood activities include livestock rearing,
farming, fishing, hunting etc. A study conducted by Gujarat Institute of Development
Research show that, tribals in Gujarat are facing multiple problems in spite of
Government interventions, in 43 tribal dominated districts, shortage of food in tribal
households is severe compared to non-tribes. In more than half of the tribal
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households (47.9%) distress migration occurs as casual labourers. The forest based
livelihoods are of prime importance in the districts.
13.1.2 Women and children
It is increasingly recognized that women are more strongly affected by the impacts of
Climate Change and variability (Enarson, 2000; Lambrou and Pian, 2005; WEDO,
2007). According to Hemmati and Rohr, (2007), women are particularly vulnerable as a
consequence of their social roles, inequalities in the access to and control of resources,
and their low participation in decision-making.
Climate Change can compound the vulnerability of households particularly women.

This would adversely impact the access to basic needs and natural resources, such as
shelter, food, fertile land, water and fuel, becomes hampered, thereby increasing
women’s workload who are responsible for tasks such as food/water collection and
energy supply for the household as well as many care-giving tasks, such as caring for
the children, sick, elderly, the home and assets (Enarson, 2000).
13.1.3 Coastalcommunities
Since Gujarat has a long coast, it is vulnerable to sea level rise and other impacts of
Climate Change. The primary effects include increased coastal flooding, loss of land
due to inundation and erosion of sandy beaches. These could lead to loss of
ecosystems such as wetlands, mangroves and corals, degradation of coastal
vegetation and habitats, intrusion of salt water into groundwater systems, and loss of
cultivable land with huge implications on human systems and settlements relating to
health, displacement of population, loss of life and economic losses.
In Gujarat, the coastal area, upto 20 km from the shoreline, is 30,022.25 sq.km.
consisting of parts of 11 districts and 51 talukas with 59 towns and 2802 villages. Living
resources are coral reefs around 34 islands in the Gulf of Kachchh, rich fisheries in the
375 km wide continental shelf, and mangrove vegetation on swampy lands around the
coast. Gujarat produces 71 per cent of national production of common salt (GoG,
2009).
Coastal erosion is already being experienced on western boundary of Valsad, Surat,

Navsari, Bharuch and Jamnagar districts and on eastern boundary of Bhavnagar,
Amreli, Junagadh, Porbandar and Jamnagar districts. The coastal erosion is found in
449 villages, of which the main communities are ‘Machhimar’. The erosion is taking
place just before monsoon and in monsoon season mostly under the action of strong
tidal current accompanied by wave action (Water Resources Department, GoG)
Salinity ingress is also a major threat in the coastal areas, agriculture and animal
husbandry production is being negatively impacted due to this.
13.1.4Urban poor
As per the Planning Commission, the population living below poverty line in Gujarat in
2011-12 was approx. 26.88 lakhs i.e. (10.14%) of the urban population, which is lower
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than the national average of 13.7% (GoI, 2013). There is a rise in migrants and already
existing population of poor in urban areas, as a result of which the pressure on existing
infrastructure and services rise. This exasperates the situation of haphazard growth and
adds to their vulnerability to climate change due to improper housing, lack of access to
adequate basic services including sanitation, health, education and employment.
The Urban Development and Urban HousingDepartment, (GoG) has devised a multi-
pronged approach for mainstreaming urban poor with the overall vision to develop a
slum free urban Gujarat and affordable housing for all.
Figure 44: Multi-pronged approach for mainstreaming urban poor
Source: The Urban Development and Urban Housing Department, (GoG), 2014
Through a large number of projects identified by various Departments, aspects such as

upliftment of urban poor population through provision of housing, sanitation services,
skill development through training, self-employment programmes, etc. a number of
activities have been planned and implemented to improve the adaptation capacities of
the urban poor. Some of the proposed activities have been listed in the subsequent
section.The objective is toidentify strategies to integrate climate change dimension into
existing state initiatives for in-situ slum redevelopment.
Historically, Gujarat has been an industrialized state and since last few decades the
focus on manufacturing sector has been further strengthened in the State. As a result,
there has been in-migration from otherneighboring states such as Rajasthan, Madhya
Pradesh, Maharashtra as well as from distant states like Bihar, Orissa, Chhatisgarh and
Jharkhand as well. On top of that, there is also intra-state migration to centres/areas
with higher rate of growth (Hirway and Shah, 2011). This creates a pressure on already
existing infrastructure. Since the industrial hubs are major activities of production, it
creates an indirect pressure on resources of such areas.
The slum workers vulnerable to financial and social protection, could be supported
through developmental aspects along with increasing their adaptability to changing
climate.
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13.1.5Marginal and landless farmers/pastoralists
There are several reasons why landless farmers, laborers, pastoralists arefurther
marginalised due to their poverty, lack of access to land or major economic assets, lack
of social security net, exclusion from social welfare and benefits due to their nomadic
lifestyle, dependency on fragile ecosystem amongst others. Even geography plays an
important role in adding another dimension to their vulnerability. For e. g. the Maldhari
community of Kachchh are mainly dependent on milk and cattle based livelihoods and
are typically nomadic tribes. Added to this situation, since a large number of industries
have come up in Kachchh, there has been transformation of common lands into
industrial zones. Thereby the dependency on natural resource base economies of such
traditional communities has been affected and they are required to alter their profession.
In the long run, the livelihoods of such marginal and disadvantaged communities need
to be strengthened and stabilized. Access to resources, creation of assets for
sustainable livelihoods, focus on women and children’s health and nutrition, investing in
human capital, addressing their vulnerabilities will help improve their financial and social
status. Through poverty alleviation, these communities can be brought at par with other
rural population (UN World Food Program, 2002)
13.2 State Initiatives and Achievements
13.2.1 Coastal sustainable livelihoods
Gujarat has over 1,600 km coastline with 6 million coastal populations in 38 sub-
divisions, which will be more vulnerable to potential sea level rise, flooding, cyclones
and damages to infrastructure. Sensing this important fact, Gujarat has devised a new
integrated development programme for coastal communities known as ‘Sagar Khedu
Sarvangi Vikas Yojana’ (Multi-Dimensional Development Packages for coastal
Communities). Catering to the needs of the coastal communities for climate resilience
and sustainable livelihood promotion the State has promoted a multi-dimensional
development package for coastal communities at a cost of INR 110 billion.The
programme goes beyond livelihood issues taking into consideration a holistic eco-
system approach to coastal areas development. It proposes specific and time bound
action plan for improving:
W
age and Self Employment
C
apacityBuilding and Skill up-gradation
E
ducational Facilities
H
ealth infrastructure
D
rinking Water
H
ousing
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S
alinity Ingress and Water conservation
E
lectrification
D
evelopment of salt pan workers
N
ational Security
13.2.2 Livelihood generation
The Gujarat AnnualDevelopmentPlan (2011-12) accords high

priorityforemploymentgeneration through variousState and Centrally Sponsored
Schemes. The State has accorded high priority towards industrial development and
thereby generating additional employment for youth, both in urban and rural areas.
Emphasis would be laid on self-employment schemes in Agriculture, Animal

Husbandry, Dairy Development, Village and Small industries and allied activities. High
priority is accorded to maximize employment with special emphasis on agro-based rural
industries. In fact, Gujarat has achieved a considerable progress in this sector.
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Table 25: Schemes having potential of employment generation during year 2011-2012
No. Sector of Development Wage Employment Self-Employment
atMan-days
(Proposed) No. of
beneficiaries(Propose
(in lakhs)
d)(in lakhs)
1 Fisheries Department 162.84 --
2 Office of the Principal Chief 298.12 2,98,00,000
Conservator of Forest
3 (i) Agriculture Soil Conversation -- --
(ii) Animal Husbandry and Dairy 2.12 18,000
Development
(iii) Crop Husbandry (Horticulture) -- 2,80,00,000
4 SEBC Welfare -- 62,00,000

5 S.C. Develop. Corporation -- 10,000
6 Rural Development 750.00 1,20,000
7 Development Commissioner 19.64 19,64,000
8 Cottage industries 2.50 250,000
9 Guj. State Handloom and 15.05 15,051
Handicrafts Development
Corporation
10 Guj. Gopalak Development 0.00 00
Corporation
11 Guj. Women Eco. Develop. Corp. 4.06 1,400
Ltd.
12 Guj. Minority Finance and -- 1,500
Development. Corp. Ltd.
13 Guj. Safai Kamdar Development. 0.00 00
Board
14 Guj. Urban Development Mission 2.06 81,000
15 Gujarat Maritime Board 127.94 --
16 Narmada Water Resources, 348.62 89,000
Water Supply and Kalpsar
Department
17 Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam 310.૦૦ 3,10,00,000
Ltd.
Total 2,042.95 9,75,49,951
(Information from concerned offices)
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13.2.3 Implementation of the Twenty Point Programme
The Twenty Point Programme (TPP) was launched by the Government of India in
1975. The Programme was first revised in 1982 and again in 1986. TPP-2006 has
Points for the benefit of the rural and urban people. Its thrust is towards
programmes for eradicating poverty and improving the quality of life of the poor and
the under-privileged people all over the country. The Programme covers various
socio economic aspects like poverty, employment, education, housing, health,
agriculture, land reforms, irrigation, drinking water, protection and empowerment of
weaker sections, consumer protection, environment and e-Governance etc.
Gujarat has been among the front ranking States in the country in implementation of
the Twenty Point Programme-1986. Government of India has been implementing the
revised Twenty Point Programme–2006 since 1-4-2007. The State has ranked first in
the country with 96 per cent achievement during the year 2008-09. The State has
achieved 94 per cent in the year 2009-10. The Ministry of Statistics and Programme
Implementation of the Government of India has recently published Progress Report
ending July-2010 of the year 2010-11, GujaratState has achieved 1st rank with 100
per cent achievement in the country.
Table 26:Achievement under the Twenty Point Programme (TPP) at the end of January-
2011 during the year 2010-2011
Pt Item Name-Sub Item Name Unit Annual Targ Achieve %age
No. Target et ment
Year Jan.- Jan.-11
2010-11 11 ending
endi
ng
Employment generation under the
National Rural Employment
Guarantee Act (MNREGA)
1 No. of job cards issued Number 0 0 372965 -
2 Employment generated Number 0 0 3102400 -
0
3 Wages given in cash and kind Lakh.Rs 0 0 29051.14 -
Swarna jayanti Gram Swarojgar
Yojana
*1 Total Swarojgaries Assisted Number 6514 4993 16404 329
2 SC Swarojgaries Assisted Number 0 0 7891 -

3 ST Swarojgaries Assisted Number
4 Women swarojgaries Assisted Number 0 0 5170 -
5 Disabled Swarojgaries Assisted Number 0 0 132 -
Self Help Groups
1 Formed under SGSY Number 0 0 5044 -
*2 To whom income generating Number 3752 2876 4768 166
activities provided
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13.2.4 Ten point programme
The Government of Gujarat has launched a bold and unprecedented initiative in 2007 -
the ‘Chief Minister’s Ten Point Programme for the Development of Tribal Areas’ also
commonly known as Vanbandhu Kalyan Yojana. The Ten-Point Programme focuses
on the integrated, holistic and inclusive development of tribal communities by touching
their lives in core areas It’s components are:
Q
uality and sustainable employment for 5 lakh tribal families
Q
uality of education and higher education
E
conomic development
H
ealth
S
afe drinking water
I
rrigation
U
niversal electrification
A
ll weather road connectivity
U
rban development
A
ccess to services
Skills imparted lasts for one whole generation so that they do not fall in poverty net
again in this generation.A series of technical institutions are being set up in the focus
areas to develop the required manpower and to support the major interventions like
dairy, Wadi and skill training.
The Ten Point Programme will develop a gender framework to ensure that women are
equal partners and accrue benefits from the initiatives. Emphasis will be given to
drudgery reduction, access to credit, housing and capacity building while developing
the framework.
A large number of initiatives have been undertaken under the Yojana, which comprises
of a corpus of Rs. 15,000 crores to be spent (from 2008-09 to 2013-14) for the tribal
development and upliftment. Progress has been made in skill development training
programmes, income diversification projects, extension of regional water supply
schemes and in-situ conservation of water through roof-top rainwater harvesting,
infrastructural improvements including deepening of ponds/lakes, building check dams
in those areas, improvinghousing stock, etc. The focus is on vulnerable population,
who will be supported to help them adapt to changing climate.
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13.2.5 Engaging with corporate houses/industries for sustainable

livelihood generation
Gujarat Livelihood Promotion Company (GLPC) is an implementing agency of the

State of Gujarat for Livelihood Mission, named as Mission Mangalam, under the
National Rural Livelihood Mission of Ministry of Rural Development, Government of
India and works with the primary objective of linking existing Self Help Groups,
Producer Groups and other collectives of the poor, strengthening them through
mobilization, linkages with the formal banking system, linkages with microfinance and
linkages with sustainable livelihoods.
As part of the livelihood interventions, GLPC has launched Innovative Livelihood

Initiatives under Mission Mangalam to bring in corporate houses/ industries to initiate
Social Business Enterprises with an objective of creating livelihood opportunities for
the poor through profitable, sustainable and scalable ventures.
13.2.6 Integrated Tribal Development Projects (ITDP)

The Government of Gujarat has identified 12 Integrated TribalDevelopment Project
areas viz. (1) Palanpur(2) Khedbrahma (3) Dohad (4) ChhotaUdepur(5) Rajpipla (6)
Mandvi (7) Songadh (8)Vansada (9) Dangs (10) Bharuch (11) Valsadand (12) Godhra.
These 12 ITDP areasinclude in all 43 talukas of the state. As per 2001 census, the
coverage of tribal population under ITDPs is about 61.38 lakh,which accounts for
82.04% of the total tribal population in the State, while 13.43 lakh (17.96%) tribals are in
scattered anddispersed area. (GoG, 2013). Focus is on district level “Jilla Adijati Vikas
Mandal” which means that 95% of outlay is earmarked for theschemes to be
implemented at District level, while the remaining 5% outlay is for State level schemes.
13.2.7 Affordable Housing for Urban Poor

Through the Mukhyamantri Awas Samriddhi Yojana (MASY), the aim is to provide
affordable housing and infrastructure facilities in partnership with private sector. Through
Rajiv Awas Yojana, slum surveys and slum free city plans are under progress for 4
municipal corporations and more than 4 cities of Gujarat Through Integrated Housing
and Slum Development Programme (IHSDP), the GoG aims at havingan integrated
approach in ameliorating the conditions of the urban slum dwellers who do not possess
adequate shelter and reside in dilapidated conditions.

Creating Climate Change safeguards for women, landless labourers, marginal
workers, tribal and other vulnerable communities
13.3 Key Strategies
S
tudies to provide basis for integrating gender concerns in Climate Change policies
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in Gujaratand showcase key linkages between Climate Change and gender

inequalities
P
romote alternative low cost innovative technologies to reduce women’s drudgery.
E
ncourage approaches that support women in their well-being, be it health, handling
crisis, access to other basic needs etc.
Programme of Action for Vulnerable Communities

Sr Depart Project Project Objective Estimat Project Outcomes
N ment/O ed duratio
o. ffice Budget n
Name in Crore
Rs.
1 Women Vulnerability To showcase key 0.7 1 Integrating
and assessment of linkages between gender
Child women in climate change and concerns
Depart context of gender inequalities. in climate
ment Climate Change change
in Gujarat policies in
Gujarat
2 Women Small Grant Encouraging women 3.5 5 Promotion
and programme for focused and/or women of women
Child 100 agencies to headed initiatives that empowerm
Depart implement help in addressing ent and
ment innovative ideas women’s concerns in women
integrating state of Gujarat; participatio
women with Promote alternative low n in climate
Climate Change cost innovative change
in Gujarat technologies to reduce manageme
women’s drudgery; nt
Encourage approaches
that support women in
their well being, be it
health, handling crisis,
access to other basic
needs etc; Document
innovative
ideas/approaches in this
regard and publish the
same for wider use;
promote the local
traditional knowledge
and remedies in
addressing women’s
concerns.
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Sr Depart Project Project Objective Estimat Project Outcomes

N ment/O ed duratio
o. ffice Budget n
Name in Crore
Rs.
3 Labour Research and Mapping the lifestyle of Vulnerabilit
and Development migrant workers, y
Employ project to identifying the impacts assessmen
ment understand the of climate change and t of
Depart impact of climate planning adaptation migrants
ment change on solutions for migrant
migrant workers population.
Total 4.2
14.0Sea Level Rise and Coastal Infrastructure

Gujarat has a coastline of approximately 1,663 km, which is the longest and is
approximately 22 per cent of the total coastline of India (GEC, 2008). The long coastline
of the State serves as a major industrial hub and strategic location. Coastal Gujarat
harbours almost 37 per cent of the total population. Also, data clearly suggest that there
may be a mean sea-level rise along the Indian coast of around 1.3 mm/year. A
summation of all these facts makes it important that importance is given to coastal
infrastructure to safeguard this strategic location and therefore special impetus has
been given to this thematic area.
14.1 Strategies for Sea Level Rise and Coastal Infrastructure
Box 24: Addressing Sea Level Rise

The NAPCC recognizes the threat of Sea Level Rise, but specific strategies are
missing for coastal infrastructure. Also missing is a comprehensive policy for coastal
shipping at the national level
14.1.1 Current initiatives and goals

Expansion of coastal shipping
Sea Level Rise studies
Costal infrastructure: risk assessment and protection
Renewable energy applications in ports and shipyards
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Over 25,000 ha of Mangrove Forest have been added in the coastal areas of Gujarat
which will be working as strong Carbon Sink absorbing 50 tons of Carbon per ha.
• T
aking a series of preventive pollution measures, through user industries
and companies and develop an Environmental Infrastructure Plan for 10
years in light of Vibrant Gujarat offers.

• A
nticipatoryplanning to encounter sea level rise along Gujarat coast
• S
tudies are required to evaluate the interactions between climatic and non-
climatic stressors on vital processes (e,g. productivity, connectivity,
calcification) of mangroves and corals, and reports produced that would
be the basis for modifying management policies and targets
• S
tudies are required on the threshold levels/critical limits of mangrove and
coral species, and processes beyond which impacts of Climate Change
(temperature, SLR) cause irreversible damage
• S
tudies required for a better understanding of the impacts Climate Change
on the Gujarat Mangrove and wetland ecosystems would include;
• D
etailed digital elevation models of mangrove, salt marsh, salt flats and
coastal plains
• F
ine scale classification of the coast into typological units based on
geomorphological characteristics
• I
nformed linkages between geomorphological classifications and
ecological and physical processes
• A
n understanding of sedimentation rates in mangroves and wetlands on the
State, variations from past sedimentation rates and the role of
sedimentation to wetland stability.
• A
better understanding of the changes in the response of fauna to changes
in the intertidal wetland plant species composition, changes in extent and
connectivity of habitats and changes in productivity.
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• A
quantitative understanding of the impacts of cyclones on intertidal
wetlands, rates of recovery and interactions with other factors (eg sea
level rise).

• A
“No regrets” mitigation action is required to reduce the non-climate
stresses (e.g run off from the industries) on mangroves and wetlands in
the State of Gujarat. This would help reduce mangrove vulnerability and
enhance mangrove resilience to climate stress (Adger et al, 2007).
• M
anagement processes would have to evolve so as to a) create buffers
around wetlands to increase resilience, and b) assist in relinquishing
lands to accommodate landward migration of intertidal habitats.
• W
hile coral reefs located in the Gulf of Kachch Marine National Park are
protected (corals are also protected under the Wildlife Protection Act,
1972), there is a need to design and maintain networks of protected areas
to increase resilience of the entire reef system.
• A
n integrated management and planning framework should be developed
for a cost-effective response and adaptation to the impacts of global
Climate Change. Also, a long term monitoring program that will help
illustrate the impacts of Climate Change on coral reefs needs to be
established
• I
nitiatives could be taken to explore the efficiency of technologies to
reduce the impacts of Climate Change (shade structures, restoration
technologies) for small areas of high natural and/or (tourism) value like in
the case of the Pirotan Islands

The Climate Changeeducational curricula should include information on the value of
wetlands conservation and on the important services that mangroves provide. Public
awareness about mangrove and wetland resources would help local communities
make well-informed decisions about mangrove use, and is likely to result in grassroots
support and increased political will for measures pertaining to the conservation and
sustainable management of mangroves.
Due to the presence of multiple ports a l3arge number of proposed projects have been
aimed at securing these coastal regions, as they are the lifeline for trade and
commerce.
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Programme of Action for Sea Level Rise and Coastal

Infrastructure
Sr Departme Activity Objective Budget Proje Outcomes
No nt/Office in ct
. Name Crore durat
Rs*. ion
1 Ports and Anticipatory To protect ports 100 3 Coastal
Transport Planning for and port-led infrastructure
Departmen Sea level rise development and protection to
t (Gujarat to protect Ports other coastal SLR through
Maritime and port led resources along the adaptation
Board) development coast of Gujarat options
and other
coastal
resources
along the coast
of Gujarat
extending in
1600km X
10km area
2 Ports and To cater clean Installation of 17 Creating
Transport power to the Solar Power balanced
Departmen GMB Ports as Stations in 9 energy mix in
t (Gujarat a part of the identified GMB ports.
Maritime Climate Ports viz Magdalla,
Board) Change Dahej, Bhavnagar,
Defense Veraval,
Mechanism of Porbandar, Okha,
the State Bedi Group of
Ports, Navalakhi
and Mandvi and a
Ship Recycling
Yard at Alang
3 Departmen Proposal for Assessing 1.07 0.5 Vulnerability
t of Climate undertaking vulnerability due to and impact
Change research on climate change and assessment of
“Assessment its impact on Sea coastal areas
of Climate Level Rise using to SLR and
Change Impact the state-of-the-art formulation of
on Sea Level coupled models adaptation
Rise (SLR) and dynamical solutions
over the downscaling of
Gujarat Coast” these climate
change projections
over the Gujarat
region using a
regional climate
model; To
recommend site-
specific adaptation
measures to
reduce coastal
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vulnerability to SLR
Total 118.07
15.0 Green Jobs
15.1 Strategies for Creation of Green Jobs

The terms low carbon jobs, green jobs, clean energy jobs etc., are often used
interchangeably. According to ILO (2007) “Jobs are green when they help reduce
negative environmental impact ultimately leading to environmentally, economically and
socially sustainable enterprises and economies”. More precisely green jobs are decent
jobs that:
L
imit GHG emissions
M
inimize waste and pollution
R
estore and protect ecosystems
R
educe energy and raw material consumption
In the United States, green jobs are often defined solely as those in renewable
energy and energy efficiency. White et al, (2008) on the other hand, refer to
employment in sectors that ‘make up the clean energy economy’, including
energy efficiency, renewables, alternative transport and fuels as low carbon jobs.
According to UNEP, “work in agricultural, manufacturing, research and development
(R&D), administrative, and service activities that contribute substantially to preserving
or restoring environmental quality”. Low carbon jobs are classified into three
categories, jobs related to environment protection; jobs related to renewable energy
(RE); and jobs related to energy efficiency (EE) and clean technology by the UNEP and
SEF Alliance study.
Green jobs can be created in both in rural and urban settings, all sectors and types of
enterprises, and in countries at all levels of economic development. They play an
important role in reducing the environmental footprint of an economic activity.
According to UNEP report, green jobs will impact the economy in four ways-
I
n some cases, additional jobs will be created, for example in the manufacturing
sector
T
here will be substitution of employment in some cases, for example to the recycling
sector.
E
limination of some jobs without replacement.
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S
ome jobs will be transformed and redefined.
A
ccording to UNEP, Green jobs exist in both developed and developing countries in
six sectors which contribute to economy of a nation.
E
nergy Supply- More than 2.3 million jobs have been created in renewable energy
sector. The solar PV sector employs an estimated 170,000 people, wind power
about 300,000 people, and the solar thermal industry more than 600,000. Bio-
energy has high potential to create employment.
E
nergy Efficiency in building and construction- Buildings are responsible for 30-40
per cent of all energy use, waste generation and greenhouse gas emissions. The
sector which includes construction and renovation of buildings has a high potential
of GHGmitigation and job creation. New jobs will be defined in terms of skills,
training and certification requirements.
T
ransportation- Public transport systems offer lower emissions and green jobs than
in private vehicles. There are about 5 million jobs in the railways in India, China
and the European Union alone. Railways have a high potential of employment
generation in manufacture of locomotives and rolling stock. Green employment
opportunities exist in retrofitting diesel buses to reduce air pollutants and in
introducing vehicles running on Compressed Natural Gas (CNG).
A
griculture- Agriculture sector is vulnerable to Climate Change impacts and also a
major contributor to GHG emissions. Agriculture sector also contributes to land and
water pollution, drives deforestation and hence leads to biodiversity loss. Potential
for green jobs in this sector exists in creating organic farms and practicing organic
farming.
E
ncouraging small farms, using crop rotation, manuring and other sustainable
methods can prove to be a source of green jobs generation. Employing rural
dwellers for terracing or contouring land, conservation of water, building irrigation
structures, and other related activities will therefore provide employment.
F
orests- It is difficult to decide how much proportion of jobs is green in the forest
sector. Considering their role as potential carbon sinks, providers of raw material
and other ecosystem functioning, sustainable forest management can offer large
number of jobs.
R
ecycling and basic industries- Basic industries include iron and steel, aluminium,
cement, pulp and paper. These industries consume a large amount of raw materials
and energy and hence account for large amount of GHG emissions. It is difficult to
create direct green jobs in these sectors, but inclusion of recycling can prove as a
possible solution. For example, steel production, based on recycled scrap can be
seen as a proxy for green production since it requires 40–75 per cent less energy
than primary production.
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The Green Jobs initiative, a joint initiative by the ILO, the United Nations Environment
Programme, the International Organization of Employers and the International Trade
Union Confederation is being started in India. The initiative supports effort by
governments, employers, and trade unions to promote environmentally sustainable
decent jobs in a climate-challenged world. In India, inclusion of poverty reduction
strategies in growth following sustainable development path is of importance. The
green jobs initiative tries to address these issues. Demonstration initiative has been
started in the dairy sector of Madhya Pradesh.
The State of Gujarat also can generate green employment largely in the agriculture
sector and other industries. Such an initiative will have the benefits of GHG mitigation
and job creation.

Promotion and R&D of Green Technologies so they become new
economic drivers for creation of employment opportunities
Programme of Action for Green Jobs

S. Department/Offi Activity Objective Budg Proj Outcomes
No ce Name et in ect
Crore dura
Rs*. tion
1 Panchayats Irrigation To provide water to 4.5 1 Achieve water
and Rural developm large area from a small security and
Housing ent water source through increase
Development through micro-irrigation employment by
(Gujarat micro systems and creating creating jobs in
Livelihood irrigation workforce for setting up setting up
Promotion systems infrastructure irrigation
Company) infrastructure
2 Setting up To provide at least 2.51 5 Employment
bio 250-300 days of generation in
Briquetiing employment to farm bio-fuel sector
Plant to laborers who otherwise
utilize the will be rendered jobless
bio/agri during off-season or
wastes non-agriculture season
generated and to enable price
and realization of agri
convert it waste to farmer.
into
biofuel.
3 Planned To consider 4.5 10 Job generation
expansion plantation/Landscaping and increasing
of tree / Green Cover in all the urban green
cover large housing and cover
under the infrastructure projects
urban undertaken by the
greening Corporation as a
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S. Department/Offi Activity Objective Budg Proj Outcomes

No ce Name et in ect
Crore dura
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programs. potential way to
produce carbon sinks.
4 Home Installatio To eliminate diesel 0.46 5 Reduction of
Department n of Solar pump use by the Carbon
(Gujarat State pumps for miners by providing emission and
Police Housing the salt more than 300 solar increasing salt
Corporation miners, pumps thereby freeing miners income
Ltd.) also them from the clutches
known as of moneylenders/
Angariyas traders giving credit to
run the diesel pumps.
TOTAL 11.97
Besides these activities other activities like promoting organic farming,up scaling
training for solar energy technicians, Promoting ecotourism in the state and Promoting
of construction of green building through regulation can also serve as areas to increase
green jobs.
16.0 Enablers
Along with the sectoral and cross-sectoral themes mentioned in the previous sections,
there are certain strategies which will provide enabling environment in planning,
execution, and evaluation of such activities. These have been mentioned in the section
below.
16.1Generating knowledge, building capacity and public

awareness
Environmental education in Gujarat has become increasingly important due to its policy
of sustainable development and the State Government’s awareness strategy includes
incorporating education that includes climate concerns, specifically, at the tertiary level.
Generating awareness on climate vulnerabilities and impacts requires people from
different disciplines, age groups and areas to work together, and disseminate factual
information that is made available to them. It requires methods to bridge the knowledge
gap and address the lack of understanding on various climate issues. This will require
capacities to be built; research to be coordinated; dissemination of best practices; and
innovative actions on the ground. The aim is to effectively incorporate communication
and education through a participatory process that will ensure two-way communication
with contribution and awareness from people in the State, who will be able to accept
ownership and guide corrective processes themselves.
Both education and awareness require sustained support by research on the climate
system and the identification of options for mitigation and adaptation, in addition to
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research on energy, transport, industry, agriculture, water and forestry, as these sectors
influence and are influenced by economic growth.
The Government of Gujarat will add to or strengthen programmes for outreach activities,
capacity building and expansion of the knowledge network, in a structured manner
under the aegis of the SAPCC, in both urban and rural areas. These programmes will
cover a broad range of climate issues that will address inadequate planning, poor
quality and limited outreach actions. The Government also aims to strengthen research
capacity by enhancing institutional capacities; and assess technical, institutional and
regulatory barriers.
The SAPCC will enable access to appropriate and meaningful information, raise
awareness and encourage discussion within the State, across all target audiences and
lifestyles, through a series of campaigns that include the media, awareness products,
and inventories of initiatives and best practices. Detailed implementation schedules,
including work-plans and indicator selection will be developed in participatory work-
planning sessions with all stakeholder and State institutions.
16.1.1 Climate Change Education and Awareness

Limited awareness about Climate Change at all levels of society exists, but these are
scattered and insufficient. Therefore, there is a need to establish a common
understanding and influence individual and collective behavior to adopt low carbon
development agendas, thus mitigating climate impacts likely to affect the State. The
Government of Gujarat aims to educate, empower and engage all stakeholders on
issues relating to Climate Change. Since, improving awareness and understanding of
Climate Change, and creating solutions to facilitate access to information, on a
changing climate are a key to address the challenge.
16.1.2 Climate inclusive education
The primary purpose of including climate concerns into formal tertiary education is to
build capacities and increase resilience to cope with vulnerabilities and deal with
impacts. It is expected that this will lead to innovative and viable responses to the
climate challenge that the State will face, considering its rapid economic growth agenda.
In 2011, Gujarat University, in a decision that is first of its kind taken by any university in
India, has made: Environmental Science a compulsory subject at the undergraduate
level; and the book written by Gujarat’s Chief Minister “Convenient Action- Gujarat’s
Response to Challenges of Climate” a part of the syllabus. Climate Change has also
been integrated into the school curriculum. Gujarat has established the "Management
Education Centre for Climate Change" in Gujarat University for building capacity
through introduction of short term and long term courses on Climate Change. A “School
of Solar Energy” has also been established at Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University.
Gujarat University has already started a M.Sc. in Climate Change Impact Management
which aims at developing expertise in the essential multi-disciplinary fields that comprise
the core of this new science.
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16.1.3 Enhancing climate focused research
In dealing with Climate Changes and challenges, the importance of research cannot be
overstated and the Government of Gujarat is on a strategic course to create and
strengthen interdisciplinary research institutions that address environmental and societal
concerns. CEPT University in Ahmedabad has a “Faculty of Sustainable Environment
and Climate Change” to strengthen multidisciplinary expertise among professionals. The
faculty offers academic programmes on Climate Change and sustainable human
settlements; conducts training and capacity building exercises; undertakes research and
publishing; and carries out networking and institutional cooperation. A specialized
Centre for Climate Change Studies is also being established under the Faculty.
16.1.4 Gujarat Institute of Research in Climate Change

The Government of Gujarat has proposed setting up of the Gujarat Institute of
Research in Climate Change (GIRCC). The thrust of the “GIRCC” would be Climate
Change capacity building in various departments of the Government so as to integrate
the Climate Change perspective in long term planning, creation of mechanism for
promotion of clean technologies and generation of widespread consciousness on
Climate Change amongst people at large so as to achieve desirable lifestyle changes.
GIRCC will offer a post graduate degree programme in Climate Change and doctoral
research programmes and will provide research support to various departments of the
State Government in the area of Climate Change. It will work as a think-tank for various
State Government departments to fulfill the objectives of the State Action Plan on
ClimateChange (SAPCC) in consonance with the National Action Plan on Climate
Change (NAPCC).
GIRCC will also provide education in the area of Climate Change, participatory
planning, information dissemination, capacity building of different stakeholders, advisory
services and monitoring and evaluation works.
16.2 Strategies for the transfer of knowledge

To understand and comprehend the possible impacts of Climate Change for the State of
Gujarat and prepare strategies with a long term vision in a way that the challenges are
converted into opportunities, it is imperative for all the stakeholders including the
decision/policy makers to take cognizance of Climate Change concerns. When
stakeholders are involved and have ownership of the strategy development process,
more effective decision-making is made possible.
16.2.1 Increasing capacities through trainings

Knowledge is the foundation of capacity and greater investments need to be made in
continued learning. Therefore, it is felt that the level of knowledge and awareness on
Climate Change issues among many of the officials in decision making capacities need
to be built. In this context an “Orientation Workshop on Climate Change”, for senior
officials and policy planners of Gujarat, was organized at TERI in 2008.
Regular training programmes will be organized for officials of key Government

departments and these will provide essential information on: climate science and
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modeling; impacts and vulnerability assessments; mainstreaming Climate Change into

development planning and prioritizing strategies that can help build adaptive capacity.
This will ensure that the Department of Climate Change will have in-house scientific and
technical expertise. Besides regular sensitization of Government officials, from the State
to the Block level of administration, will allow effective mainstreaming and
implementation of climate actions. The Climate Change department has already taken
initiative and is conducting multiple trainings for teachers, college professors and
bureaucrats in the state of Gujarat.
16.2.2 Nurturing strategic knowledge linkages

The Department of Climate Change has been involved in extensive consultation
processes with various Government Departments, Civil Society Organization and
different institutes. Strategic Knowledge Partnerships have been established with
various organizations, like The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). Gujarat has
signed the R20 Charter to identify a plan of action to identify energy efficiency and
renewable energy projects in the framework of a low carbon development strategy in
Gujarat State. The Department of Climate Change, Government of Gujarat, has entered
into partnership with J-PAL South Asia, a centre within the Economic Department of
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), to conduct detailed energy audits and to
identify Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) suitable for CDM projects.
The Department of Climate Change will build strategic partnerships with institutes of
excellence and think-tanks within the State, in India and overseas. The objective would
be for enhanced cooperation for technological and technical skill transfer; and access to
financial resources to implement adaptation and mitigation measures in the State.
Programme of Action for Education and Learning

S. Departm Proposal Objective Scale and Amou Projec
N ent/Offic Details Coverage nt Rs. t
o. e Name in Durati
Crore* on
1 Gujarat Proposal for M. Sc. Climate Change Impacts Gujarat 1.36 1
Universit supporting Management study comprises University,
y M.Sc.in of acquire/possess expertise in Ahmedabad
Climate the essential multi-disciplinary
Change fields that comprise the core of
Impacts this new science. Quality
Management research and education in
by Gujarat Climate Change Impacts
University Management are vital not only
to meet the existing challenges
but also to set and accomplish
new goals in Environmental and
Earth Sciences.
2 Departm Gujarat To work as think-tank for Gandhinagar, - -
ent of Institute of various State Govt. Dept. to Gujarat
Climate Research in fulfill the objectives of State
Change Climate Action Plan on Climate Change
Change (SAPCC) in consonance with
National Action Plan of Climate
Change (NAPCC)
TOTAL 1.36
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Crore* on
16.3 Initiatives for communication and change

As Climate Change is a global problem with wide-ranging impacts, it is essential that the
Climate Change messages are communicated successfully to suit different stakeholder
requirements. The communication and outreach strategy provides a framework for
delivering key messages on Climate Change issues to target audiences. This strategy
discusses the actions recommended to raise awareness of Climate Change and its
impacts, and the communication of these actions.
Three ongoing projects in the State focusing on awareness generation and behavioral
change are discussed below.
16.3.1 Women as agents of change for addressing Climate Change

The Gender Resource Centre (GRC) promoted by the State Government’s Department
of Women and Child Development, in the districts of Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad, is
aimed at building a cadre of women who are energy savers. A demonstration project
was undertaken to highlight the role of women in promoting sustainable and climate-
friendly technologies that address Climate Change concerns as well as create
awareness among the community on these technologies. IEC material was prepared
and used for generating awareness for Training of Trainers and mass distribution.
16.3.2 CarbonFootprint calculation analysis in Gandhinagar city

The State of Gujarat, with its fast growing urban population, has been witnessing a
change in lifestyle patterns, with the increasing purchasing power of the growing middle
and upper class section. While the application of the lifestyle concept to environmental
and sustainability is at a nascent stage, there is the need for a Gujarat specific study, of
lifestyle patterns and associated carbon footprint, which should disseminated to
sensitize the people of Gujarat.
Youth will be mobilized to examine lifestyle attributes, energy consumption and resource
consumption pattern in an average Gujarati household and calculate its carbon footprint.
This will also help in building awareness among civil society, especially women, on the
issue of global warming and Climate Change.
The study is expected to develop an elaborate database of carbon footprints based on

local lifestyle patterns, linked to several socio-economic factors. The major outcome of
the study would be creating platforms for students and young women to learn, engage,
and have a voice on environmental sustainability issues that affect various communities
in the State.
16.3.3 Bal Urja RakshakDal (BURD) programme

A Statewide School Energy Education-intervention was initiated in 2003 that led to the
Bal Urja Rakshak Dal (BURD), a programme initiated in 2004-05, that mobilizes children
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as Urja Rakshaks (energy guardians) and teachers (Urja Agevans) to create awareness
about responsible, restrained and rational use of energy among communities and
schools. The programme creates awareness on best practices in energy conservation
through participatory activities in homes, schools and the community. Till date a force of
50,000 children and 3,600 school teachers have been engaged in this programme.
In yr 2008-09, Energy Audits in 5,000 homes and 1,600 schools in Gujarat were also
conducted. In year 2009-10, a need was felt to further educate the school children on
how architecture, climatic conditions, building orientation, ventilation and vegetation can
help reduce electricity consumption in their homes. The objective was to spread
awareness through the participatory process about energy consumption of the
traditional vis-à-vis contemporary dwellings and commercial establishments.
16.3.4 Online literacy

To spread digital literacy and strengthen Information Communication and Training (ICT)
–a module has been prepared and an online teachers training has been conducted
through GUJCET – the Online Connectivity Network in Gujarat. An Energy Knowledge
Portal has been specially designed to spread knowledge and to upload children’s work
on the digital platform and also generate secondary data.
16.3.5 Specialized Resource Centre on Climate Change (SRCCC)

With the growing economy and growing concerns for the Climate Change related
issues; there is arising need for a dedicated information and resource centre that can
disseminate information to all parts of society. This underscores the need for sharing of
information and knowledge resources, and services on a continued basis in a structured
manner to enable easy access to information. The Specialized Resource Center on
Climate Change (SRCCC) will therefore, aim to provide access to information services
and promoting resource sharing and networking amongst individuals and institutions
working on Climate Change in Gujarat and elsewhere.
The objectives of the dedicated Resource Centre on Climate Change are to:
Function as a resource centre to collect, compile and disseminate information on

Climate Change;
Develop and provide access to information products and online databases; and
Promote resource sharing and networking by establishing links with different

libraries and information centers on Climate Change
16.4 People’sparticipation
Lack of awareness and limited understanding of Climate Change issues is an

impediment for initiating climate actions. Broad based peoples’ participation is essential
to build adaptive capacity of society and make them resilient to emerging Climate
Change threats. This will also increase public participation for addressing Climate
Change impacts and devising adequate response measures
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A community that is well informed will be able to make responsible choices. The
challenge, therefore, will be to include women and youth in Climate Change
deliberations, and also empower them to take requisite actions at the local level.
A series of activities will be planned to maximize knowledge sharing at the local level,
initiating field based projects, and delivering key messages to raise awareness on State
specific issues, among target audiences. The Climate Change Department will play a
significant role for (i) forging partnerships with NGOs, knowledge organizations,
community associations working on Climate Change issues in India and elsewhere, and
(ii) Ensure that participation is at multiple levels and inclusive of all sections of
society.Thepurpose is to generate State-wide public awareness by building
consciousness and capacity among women and youth, communication agents, and
NGO and mobilizing them to function as ‘Climate Change Guardians’ of Gujarat.
16.4.1 Enabling women to address climate concerns

In many contexts, women are more vulnerable to the effects of Climate Change as their
dependence on natural resources is threatened more by Climate Change impacts.
Women who have the responsibility of securing water, food and fuel face the greatest
challenges. In addition, unequal access to resources, and to decision-making processes
make them more vulnerable. However, women can also at the same time, be active
participants for both mitigation and adaptation. The knowledge and expertise of women
can be used in Climate Change mitigation, disaster reduction and adaptation strategies.
If social, political and economic barriers on women are removed, they can significantly
contribute to effective climate actions (UN Women Watch 2009).
Village level consultations with women should be held to tap indigenous knowledge
about Climate Change. The dependence of women on natural resource and their role in
procuring these resources for their household needs has to be identified; this would help
in assessing the role that women can play in Climate Change adaptation, in relation to
livelihood. This can be undertaken by local NGO’s or the Gender Resource Centres
(GRC).
Promotion of green jobs for rural women will be done by the Government. Activities can
include setting up technology centres which can train women in installing solar home
systems and improved cooking stoves. Trained engineers can disseminate information
through workshops, demonstrations and door to door visits. Women Self-help groups
and Sakhi Mandals can be trained to make these initiatives more successful.
A program for empowering women, through micro-credit, can be introduced. Poor

women can be organized into groups, at the grassroots, and volunteers can be selected
and given designations such as infrastructure volunteer, health volunteer, financial
volunteer and environmental volunteer. Through these groups, training programmes,
community health care programmes and environmental sanitation programmes can be
organized. Climate Change and environmental issues can be made focus areas in these
groups. Awareness about Climate Change can be provided and training can include
climate resilient activities like improved methods of farming, steps to be taken to make
the livestock sector resilient to Climate Change, processing units and other cottage
industries for women etc.
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16.4.2 Inculcating climate resilient attitudes amongst youth

Young people need to be well-informed about Climate Change and mitigation options
and to be made aware of the consequences of their consumption behavior so that they
can play a strong role in combating Climate Change and promoting changes in attitudes
and behaviours. Education and training in Climate Change can also prepare young
people to take advantage of new employment opportunities arising from the shift to
greener technologies.
Creating awareness in schools can be done by introducing a course on Climate

Change, and by organizing role plays and dramas. Special training programs can be
organized for school teachers for mainstreaming Climate Change education in the
school curriculum. Events like science exhibitions can have Climate Change as their
main theme, wherein students can showcase models on Climate Change impacts and
practical models created by using improved and innovative technologies.
Concepts similar to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) emission calculator

kit (available online) should be introduced in schools so that students can learn to
estimate GHG emissions of their respective schools and conceptualize mitigation
actions. Such kinds of activities should be introduced in all schools and those who
perform the best should be rewarded. Schools can be given star ratings based on the
efforts they take to reduce their carbon footprint.
Apart from this, competitions like poster making and slogan writing on Climate Change
should be organized in schools.
In colleges, youth can organize events like a climate walkathon and street plays to
spread awareness about Climate Change. Various competitions like documentary film
making and a quiz can also be organized. Youth should be encouraged to take up
initiatives, like greening of their campus and measures to reduce their carbon footprint.
Youth can organize a Climate Change festival wherein there can be a photography
exhibition featuring GIS images of threats faced by Climate Change like glacier melt,
floods, droughts and desertification etc so that people get to know about the direct
impacts of Climate Change. The fest can also include a pledge on protecting the
environment.
16.4.3 Facilitating community leaders to initiate change

Community leaders like the ‘Sarpanch’ or the head of the Panchayat and village elders
can help spread awareness about Climate Change impacts especially on local
livelihoods. They can organize awareness drives by involving local NGOs and facilitate
regular trainings by extension workers to build the adaptive capacity of the local
communities. They can also motivate community members to adopt a climate resilient
lifestyle. A State level competition can be organized for innovative and successful
application of climate resilient technologies and the best village can be awarded for its
efforts.
A concept of ‘climate friendly communities’ can be introduced, wherein a leader or a

climate champion can be elected for this activity. The emission scenario of an area can
be assessed by involving different stakeholders, at the local scale. Taking cognizance of
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local-level resilience and the strategies that local people and institutions use to cope
and adapt to climate variability, the communities can devise local level action plans and
work towards attaining it. These require coordinated and concerted efforts of the local
administration and State and district level sector authorities.Government should provide
funds for such activities if they are taken up. Success of such initiatives should be
celebrated giving communities and local administration due credit
16.5 Proactive role for NGOand Private Sector

Grass root level organizations play a major role in mobilizing people and creating
awareness among them. NGO’s must take up activities like public talks on Climate
Change to spread awareness. Also, the private sector can also invest to help increase
climate resilience of the state.
16.5.1 Awareness and outreach

NGO’s can develop content for radio programs on Climate Change which can be aired
on local radio stations. They can also organize screening of documentaries and movies
related to Climate Change and its impacts. Mobilizing people to take Climate Change
mitigation action like improving their energy efficiency, more use of public transport,
greening their surroundings etc can be done. NGO’s can help communities map and
identify their local biodiversity resources, make them aware of its importance and
methods to conserve them. Documenting existing coping strategies of communities can
be done. This will help in designing adaptation strategies, later.
16.5.2 Training and capacity building

NGO’s can act as facilitators in Climate Change Schools, wherein farmers and
communities will be enabled to gather technical data including rainfall, soil moisture,
runoff and soil qualities. They can be made aware of improved and resilient methods of
farming. Health camps wherein people can be educated about climate sensitive
diseases and methods of preventing them can be initiated by NGO’s. Campaigns like
‘Know your carbon footprint’ can teach youth and school children, to calculate their
carbon footprint and methods to reduce it.
16.5.3 Grassroots actions and pilot projects

NGO’s can take up activities like planting mangroves involving communities and
making them aware of the importance of these initiatives. They can encourage
people to maintain these plantations.
Pilot projects on using solar lanterns and demonstrating them to people should be
initiated.
Integrated climate adaptation strategies including regenerating the watersheds;
adopting sustainable agricultural and livestock practices; and undertaking water
balance studies etc can be taken up.
Demonstrations on how to live a ‘Low Carbon Life’ can be taken up by the NGO’s
wherein methods to reduce individual carbon footprint can be shown to people.
16.5.4 Climate Change Ambassadors

Climate Change ambassadors can be eminent personalities and local celebrities,
celebrities who can spread Climate Change awareness by activities like public talks,
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and motivate people. They can also be involved in activities like distribution of solar
lanterns and kick start the greening initiative taken up by the Government.
16.5.5 Private Sector participation

Gujarat is a highly industrialized state in the country with planned capacities, and long-
term goals include a realistic annual growth of 10.5% by 2020 (GEDA). Given this
scenario it becomes important for industries to play a pro-active role in climate change
mitigation and adaptation process. Under the PAT scheme as discussed earlier Gujarat
is one of the forerunning states to set standards for the DCs.Besides this, Gujarat can
also be involved in other activities like CSR with climate perspective. Adaptation
activities may be aimed at increasing resilience of business operations, or the provision
of technologies or services that assist in the adaptation of local communities.Activities
may include developing new water-treatment technologies for drought-prone areas,
distributing solar lamps and cookers providing drought resistant seeds, helping
communities building climate proof housing in flood prone regions or creating early
warning systems for the local communities. The activities can also be in the form of soft
adaptation options like providing capacity building training or having awareness
campaign
16.6 Innovating Grassroots level Action
Innovation and grassroots action are two requisites for sustainable development.
Grassroots activities are potential sites for innovative activity and the Government of
Gujarat intends exploiting the opportunities available through grassroots innovations, as
its strategy to address climate challenges is through sustainable production and
consumption which separates economic growth from environmental degradation.
Pursuant to this policy a series of innovative grassroots initiatives are ongoing, and
more are planned, through panchayats, gram sabhas, schools, colleges, universities,
research institutes, NGOs, community organizations and Government departments.
16.6.1 Green Forts

‘Swarnim Nirmal Gujarat’ drive was organized by the Gujarat Government’s Urban
Development Department between16 and 23 December, 2011 across the seven
Municipal Corporation and 159 minor-middle level towns in Gujarat. The unique concept
of Green belt inside the city and green forts around the city has been taken up. Green
guard volunteers will be encouraged to plant ‘Tulsi’ at their homes and celebrities will be
asked to promote the campaign to motivate public participation. The Government will
develop ‘Oxygen parks’ and a ‘green belt’ inside the city. Every city and roads
connecting to it will get green fort cover.
16.6.2 ApnoTaluko Vibrant Taluko (ATVT)

Apno Taluko, Vibrant Taluko (ATVT) is aimed to empower people to guide the growth
process, locally. Taluka Sarkar3 was launched so as that every Taluka in Gujarat will be
empowered to perform better. Administration will be decentralized up to sub-district
3
TalukaSarkar is a sub district citizen-centric approach where governance and
development is activated at the grass root level
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(taluka) level to make it speedier, effective, transparent and citizen centric. Applications
for assistance under various schemes would now be collected and processed at the
taluka level itself. The Government has made a provision to allocate Rs.27 billion over
the next four years for this.
Functions of the Taluka Seva Sadan will include-
Effective, transparent and citizen-centric administration.
E-Governance to fasten the system
All the services of different departments will be available at one place.
16.6.3 Rurban lungs

Rurban infrastructure is an ongoing initiative to provide infrastructure facilities like water,
sewage and roads to rural areas. Initially it is proposed to cover villages with a
population of 10,000 or above, except in those which are Taluka head quarter, where
the population may be lower; and 7,000 in the tribal area, even below 10, 000 in
villages. The initiatives will include-
Providing all basic infrastructures like water, roads, electricity, educational

infrastructures and sewerage to villages.
To modify or strengthen existing infrastructures.
To provide non-conventional energy to villagers.
An outlay of Rs.18,500 lakhs is proposed for the year 2010-2011. The main objective of
this initiative is to stop the migration of rural people to urban areas. The project will be
implemented in three phases.
On similar lines, the concept of ‘Rurban lungs’ can be implemented which would include
greening of the rural areas. This is similar to green forts initiative but with focus on rural
areas. The villagers can take up the responsibility of maintaining the green cover.
Women and youth can be mobilized to undertake plantation activities with the help of
forest department. This would not only help maintaining flow of ecosystem services but
also meet subsistence needs of local communities.
16.6.4 One Billion tree campaign

This initiative works in tandem with the green forts concept. Trees producing Non-
Timber Forest Products (NTFP) can be planted on Government lands and the
responsibility of maintaining these can be given to the local people who are permitted to
benefit financially. - Trees can be planted within school campuses and colleges and
each class could take up the responsibility of taking care of a plant. The class who
performs the best should be rewarded. Since Gujarat has areas suitable for the growth
of Mangroves, coastal communities should be encouraged to plant more mangrove
species and given incentives for protecting the plantations. Trees can be planted on
roadsides and strict rules should be implemented to protect them. Each Taluka can be
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asked to green their area and the best Taluka can be rewarded for maintaining this
green cover.
16.6.5 Save Water, Save Energy Campaign

The Save Water, Save Energy Campaign aims to generate public awareness for
reducing water and carbon footprints by carrying out an extensive Information,
Education and Communication (IEC) campaign at the State as well as village level.
Save water campaign can include:
A public talk at each village by experts or celebrities on the importance of water as a
scarce resource and the current situation of the State.
Free screening of documentaries or movies on water issues to create awareness
among people.
Small scale projects like rainwater harvesting systems can be piloted by NGO’s and
can be asked to replicate by the people.
In schools and colleges, recycling of water should be mandated. And students
should celebrate a week as ‘Water Week’ wherein various competitions like slogan
writing and debates can be organized. Children should also be asked to educate
and inform their parents about the importance of saving water.
Separate taps for supplying recycled water to households can be established.
Save energy campaigns can be started in several sectors and institutions.
The importance of saving energy should be conveyed to people through mass
media’s like newspapers, Radio and Television.
In offices, a guide for energy efficiency can be circulated and workers should be
asked to follow the guide strictly. Apart from this, stickers written ‘Save energy’ can
be circulated among workers to be pasted on their desktops.
NGO’s can demonstrate small solar energy pilot projects involving people and make
them aware of its benefits
In a large scale, CFL’s can be distributed in each household in exchange of normal
bulbs and while doing this, a brochure with benefits of using CFL’s should be
circulated.
At village levels, small scale renewable energy projects can be established and
people should be incentivized for maintaining these.
Women should be trained in methods of energy conservation at household level.
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Section 4
The Way Forward
The State aims to create core competencies for addressing the challenge of
Climate Change. Some of the focus areas include generating strategic
knowledge for informed decision making, creating public awareness and
education and empowering communities for participatory and decentralized
action on Climate Change.
This will require capacities to be built; research to be coordinated; dissemination

of best practices; and innovative actions on the ground. The aim is to effectively
incorporate communication and education through a participatory process that
will ensure two-way communication with contribution and awareness from people
in the State, who will be able to accept ownership and guide corrective processes
themselves.
The Government of Gujarat will add to or strengthen programmes for outreach

activities, capacity building and expansion of the knowledge network, in a
structured manner, in both urban and rural areas. These programmes will cover a
broad range of climate issues that will ensure adequate planning, improved
quality and extensive outreach actions. The Government also aims to strengthen
research capacity by enhancing the institutional capacities.
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17.0 Further Course of Action
17.1Institutionalarrangement
The Department of Climate Change will be the nodal agency for coordinating and
implementing the SAPCC. The State Level Steering Committee will provide
recommendations for the preparation and implementation of the SAPCC in accordance
with State priorities and in alignment with the NAPCC guidelines. The Steering
Committee will also recommend budgetary provision for the SAPCC and allocate
resources to various departments and implementing agencies based on transparent
criteria for adaptation and State-relevant actions.
17.1.1Department of Climate Change

On 17th September 2009, the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Gujarat declared an in-principle
decision of the Government to form a new department to address Climate Change
concerns in the State. It is the first department of its kind in India and so far only six
countries in the world have a Department on Climate Change.
The Department was formed with the objective of coordinating and collaborating efforts
of different departments and providing them with necessary support, advice and
direction within a comprehensive Climate Change Framework
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Box 26: Functions of the Department of Climate Change

The Department of Climate Change will function to act as a bridge between the
Government and society with the following mandate:
Preparation of a comprehensive multidimensional Climate Change Policy of
Gujarat State;
Coordination with all other departments with respect to Climate Change;
Gujarat has a 1,663 km coast line. The department would undertake detailed and
extensive research and survey on impacts of Climate Change in coastal areas.
This would cover the possible impacts on the Gujarat coast due to sea level rise,
changes in agricultural productivity, new challenges to health and infrastructural
facilities in the coastal areas and measures that would be required to deal with
them;
The department would prepare a pro-active policy to convert the challenge of
Climate Change into an opportunity. This department would become a nodal
agency for turning Green Technology into a new economic driver by creation of
extensive employment opportunities; and maximum usage of Green Technology
and investments thereof would be promoted.
Creating a Revolving Fund for R&D in Green Technology and promotion of its
usage would also be established;
Preparation of an integrated strategy for environment in its dimensions like land,
air and water;
Intensive efforts will be undertaken for earning maximum Carbon Credits;
Educational curricula on Climate Change will be prepared and introduced;
Universities will undertake research and development on Climate Change along
with introduction of new courses and teachers training modules on Climate
Change;
For reducing GHG emission in industries like cement, alkalis, chemical fertilizers,
textiles and chemicals etc. new technologies will be developed along with creation
of appropriate regulatory and financial mechanisms;
Public participation and public awareness will be developed in an extensive way;
and
Cooperation with national and international agencies will be undertaken. Constant
interactions and consultations will be undertaken with National Clean
Development Authority and international agencies working in this sector,
especially those under the United Nations.
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17.1.2 Formation of State Level Steering Committee on Climate

Change
The Government of Gujarat has constituted a State Level Steering Committee to
oversee and approve the preparation and implementation of the State Action Plan on
ClimateChange.
Box 27: Members of the Steering Committee on Climate Change

Chief Secretary of Gujarat Chairman
Additional Chief Secretary (planning) GAD Member
Additional Chief Secretary/Port & Transport Member
Additional Chief Secretary/Urban development &
Urban Housing – Additional Charge Member
Principal Secretary/Agriculture & Co-operation Member
Principal Secretary/Forest & Environment Member
Principal Secretary/Health & Family Welfare Member
Principal Secretary/Industries & Mines Member
Principal Secretary (Water Supply) N.W.R. &
KalpsarDepartment Member
Principal Secretary Narmada, Water Resources/Water
Supply & Kalpsar Department Member
Commissioner Rural Development & Principal
Secretary/Rural Development & Housing Member
Principal Secretary/Energy & Petro-Chemicals Member
Principal Secretary/Tribal Development Member
Secretary/Department of Climate Change Member Secretary
Secretary (Narmada) N.W.R. &Kalpsar Department Member
Secretary/(Kalpsar) N.W.R. &Kalpsar Department Member
Secretary/Women & Child Development Member
Chief Executive Officer/GSDMA Member
The Steering Committee will provide valuable suggestions from different departments to
be incorporated in the State Action Plan on Climate Change, which would finally be sent
to Government of India for their approval. The Committee will also oversee the
implementation of the State Action Plan in accordance with the suggestions and
directions of Government of India.
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17.2Implementation Plan
The Implementation of the State Action Plan on Climate Change will be overseen by the
State Steering Committee under the chairmanship of the Chief Secretary. The
Department of Climate Change, Government of Gujarat will be the nodal point for
coordination and implementation of the State Action Plan on Climate Change (SAPCC).
The Department of Climate Change will work in close association with the various
Government departments by providing strategic information and channelizing financial
resources for the implementation of the SAPCC. It will also work closely with community
organizations and knowledge partners to spread awareness among communities and
encourage grassroots action while deriving important lessons from the field. To fill in the
scientific research gaps various studies on Climate Change will be commissioned to the
proposed ‘Gujarat Institute of Research in Climate Change’ which will generate
specialized scientific knowledge Climate Change.
Figure 45: Coordination Mechanism for State Action Plan on Climate Change
17.2.1 Financial provisions
Financial provisions have been made for the Department of Climate Change for
undertaking various activities. For the year 2014-15, a provision of Rs. 110 crorehas
been made under Climate Change Department. It includes a provision of Rs. 28 crore
as assistance for special project to develop Gandhinagar as a Solar City and Carbon
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Neutral City and a provision of Rs. 23 crore for promotion of technology for development
of energy efficient instruments, to motivate people to adopt such technology and thereby
creating awareness.
Climate Budgeting has been proposed to be introduced in State budgetary process

whereby every Department will have specific component for mitigation and adaptation in
next planning process.
Several proposals have been submitted to the Government of India to seek support for
implementing climate actions in the State. In addition efforts are made to attract private
investments in the State and funding from bi-lateral and multi-lateral agencies.
17.2.2. Monitoring and Evaluation
The steering committee will oversee the implementation of the State Action Plan in
accordance with the suggestions and directions of Government of India
The proposed Gujarat Institute of Research in Climate Change will also be

commissioned to carry out periodic expert review and assessments of the
implementation of various activities under the SAPCC.
Another major focus of the action plan is monitoring the progress of activities that have
been previously listed in the programme of action and establishing key milestones in
their achievements. For the same a Monitoring and Evaluation framework has been
created wherein indicators for each activity have been generated. Along with their
indicators the key departments that can be responsible for overseeing O&M activity and
feedback have also been listed.
Gujarat Monitoring and Evaluation framework
Thematic Monitoring indicators Activity No. Key Department for
Area monitoring
Agriculture Milk productivity Activity 1 Agriculture and Co-
operation
Crop productivity Activity 2,3,4,5
Extent of micro-irrigation network Activity 2
Area under biofertilizers Activity 4

Water Waste water recycled/reused Activity 13 Water supply
resources (Volume)
% H/H connected to water supply Activity 12
Reduction in electricity units due to

use of non-conventional energy Activity 5,8
based Water pumps
No. of harvesting structures built Activity 3, 4,
6,7
No. of water and energy audit Activity 5
conducted
No. of desalination plant Activity 9
Forest and Increase in Tree cover % Activity 2, 5 Forest and
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biodiversity Afforestation rates Activity 2, 5 Environment

Mangrove extent Activity 1, 2
Reduction of CO2Emission Activity 2, 5
Increase in fodder plantation Activity 3
Health Incidence of Vector borne disease Activity 1, 6 Health and Family
Incidence of heat stress Activity 2,4 welfare
Incidence of water borne diseases Activity 5
Urban No. of water meters installed Activity 6 Urban Housing and
development Urban Development
Waste collection rates Activity 6 and ULBs
No. of energy efficient street light Activity 6
installed
Average energy efficiency in Activity 2,4,5,6
buildings
No. of cities mapped for climate Activity 1
resilience
Kilometers of low carbon roads Activity 6

Energy efficient building rating Activity 2, 5, 6
Energy Installation no. of solar power units Activity 1, 2, 3, Gujarat Energy
efficiency 4, 5, 6, 10 Development
and CO2 Emissions Reductions Activity Agency
Renewable 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9,
Energy 10
Energy saved from solar power Activity
1,2,3,4,5,6,9,10
Energy saved due to energy Activity 8
efficiency
Sea Level Installation of solar power plants Activity 2 Gujarat maritime
Rise and board (GMB) and
Infrastructure targets to provide Activity 1
Coastal Coastal Salinity
protection measures
Infrastructure Prevention cell
Investment programs to protect Activity 1, 2 (CSPC)
ecologically sensitive and
economically important areas
Sea level rise measurement Activity 3
Vulnerable Gender participation % Activity 1,2 Women and Child
Communities and Tribal
Daily wage earnings Activity 1,2 Development
Green Jobs Employment generation % in Activity 1,2,3,4 Labour and
environmental sector Employment
Growth rate of green activity Activity 1,2,3,4
Income generation Activity 2, 4
Poverty ratio Activity 4
Diversification of livelihood Activity 1,2,3,4
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The Way Forward

The State Action Plan on Climate Change outlines broad and ambitious strategies for
addressing Climate Change concerns and articulatesa clear programme of action that
will help carve a climate resilient future for the people of Gujarat, while the State
continues on its accelerated economic growth pathway.
The SAPCC will draw on state-of-the-art knowledge of Climate Change, to combine new
innovations with traditional best practices to navigate through the uncertainties
associated with the phenomenon, while actively contributing to the development of
communities, and at the same time reducing their carbon footprint. It will stay abreast
with the developments in international negotiations on Climate Changeand India’s
position, in order to re-assess and fine-tune its own progressive policy framework to
ensure adequate, timely and effective action on Climate Change in the State. The
SAPCC will also regularly seek expert inputs and stakeholder feedback to make
necessary amendments in its approach as required.
Delivering the State Action Plan on Climate Change demands coordinated effort by all
key government departments to align their policies and activities to build climate
resilience by means of mandates, procedures and capacity to meet such
accountabilities. For this, specialized training programmes will be organized for key
department personnel to build core competencies on climate science and policy. This
will allow effective mainstreaming and informed decision making for engaging with
Climate Change concerns in Gujarat.
Ensuring adequate public participation is central to the design and implementation of

Gujarat SAPCC. The Government of Gujarat will build upon the existing and launch
large scale awareness campaigns engaging community leaders, youth, women and the
elderly and among other stakeholders to ensure that Climate Change actions also have
local roots. In addition, integration of Climate Change into formal educational curriculum
will lay the foundation for Climate Change consciousness to be ingrained within
Gujarat’s social structure.
Implementing this ambitious plan requires resources, both technical and financial, for
achieving envisaged outcomes within the desired time-frame. The State has several
exemplaryinitiatives in place to address Climate Change, and the SAPCC would
leverage these to continue do much more in the future as well. For building technical
expertise, knowledge partnerships will be forged with various institutes of excellence
working on Climate Change issues in India and overseas. To support the more
ambitious plans, additional financial support would be sought from the Government of
India. In all, a total of 24,775 crore worth of projects have been proposed by various
Departments to be undertaken with the help of Central Government funds which will
leverage the action on climate change front.In addition multilateral and bilateral
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channels and market based mechanisms will be explored for supporting action for
Climate Change adaptation and mitigation.
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Abbreviations
Ag-DSM Agricultural Demand Side Management
AMTS Ahmedabad Municipal Transport Service
AOGCM Atmospheric Ocean Global Circulation Models
APS Agricultural Pumping System
AR4 Fourth Assessment Report
ARR Annual Revenue Requirement
ASI Annual Survey of Industry
ATVT ApnoTaluko Vibrant Taluko
AWS Automatic Weather Stations
BEE Bureau of Energy Efficiency
BG broad gauge
BRTS Bus Rapid Transport System
BURD Bal Urja Rakshak Dal
CBO Community-based organization
CBR Crude Birth Rate
CCGT Combined Cycle Gas Turbine
CDM Clean Development Mechanism
CDR Crude Death Rate
CFL Compact Fluorescent Light
CHP Combined Heat and Power
CGWB Central Ground Water Board
CNG Compressed Natural Gas
CSO Central Statistical Organization
CSPC Coastal Salinity Prevention Cell
CTL Coal-to-liquids
DDG Decentralized Distributed Generation
DSM Demand Side Management
DIC District Industries Centre
DMA District Metered Areas
EE Energy Efficiency
EEBC Energy Efficiency Building Code
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
ERM Extension, Renovation and Modernization
ESCO Energy Service Company
FACTS Flexible Alternating Current Transmission Systems
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FBC Fluidized-bed combustion

GCM General Circulation Model
GEDA Gujarat Energy Development Agency
GHG Green House Gases
GIDC Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation
GIRCC Gujarat Institute of Research in Climate Change (GIRCC)
GIS Geographic Information Systems
GLPC Gujarat Livelihood Promotion Company
GMB Gujarat Maritime Board
GPS Global Positioning System
GRC Gender Resource Centre
GRIHA Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment,
GSDP Gross State Domestic Product
GSECL Gujarat State Electricity Corporation Limited
GSPC Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation Limited
GSRTC Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation
GUDC Gujarat Urban Development Corporation
HVAC Heating, Ventilating and Air conditioning
HVDC High Voltage Direct Current
IRP Integrated Resource Planning
IEC Information, Education and Communication
ICDS Integrated Child Development Services
ICT Information Communication and Training
IEM Industrial Entrepreneurs Memorandum
IFPRI International Food Policy Research Institute
IGCC Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle
IMR Infant Mortality Rate (IMR)
INCCA Indian Network for Climate Change Assessment
IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
JGY The Jyoti Gram Yojana
JNNURM Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission
LED Light-emitting Diode
LLIN Long Lasting Impregnated Net
LPS Lighting Power Density
MG Metre Guage
MIS Micro Irrigation Systems
MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MMR Maternal Mortality Ratio
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MoEF Ministry of Environment and Forests

MoU Memorandum of Understanding
MRTS Mass Rapid Transport System
NAPCC National Action Plan on Climate Change
NG Narrow guage
NGO Non-Governmental Organizations
NSSO National Sample Survey Organisation
NTFP Non-Timber Forest Product
PHC Primary Health Centre
PIM Participatory Irrigation Management
PINS Pressurized Irrigation Network System
PLF Plant Load Factor
PPA Purchase Power Agreement
PPP Public Private Partnership
RBI Reserve Bank of India
RCM Regional Climate Model
RCT Resource Conservation Technology
RE Renewable Energy
REDD Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation
RPO Renewable Energy Power Purchase Obligation
RSBY Rastriya Swasthya Bima Yojana
SAPCC State Action Plan on Climate Change
SEZ Special Economic Zone
SHG Self Help Group
SIA Secretariat of Industrial Approval
SLR Sea Level Rise
SMC Surat Municipal Corporation
SME Small and Medium Enterprise
SPG Solar Power Generator
SPPWCP Sardar Patel Participatory Water Conservation Project
SPV Solar Photovoltaic
SRCCC Specialized Resource Centre on Climate Change
SSI Small Scale Industries
ST Solar Thermal
T&D Transmission and Distribution
TERI The Energy and Resources Institute
TFR Total Fertility Rate
TOD Time of Day
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TTP Twenty Point Programme

UFW Unaccounted For Water
ULB Urban Local Body
UNEP United Nations Environment Programme
UNFCCC United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
VBD Vector Borne Disease
VSD Variable Speed Drive
WASMO Water and Sanitation Management Organization
WTE Waste-to-Energy
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List of Project Proposals

Programme of Action for Agriculture ..................................................................................... 91
Programme of Action for Water Resources ....................................................................... 105
Programme of Action for Forests and Biodiversity ............................................................ 116
Programme of Action for Health .......................................................................................... 123
Programme of Action for Urban Development ................................................................... 140
Programme of Action for Energy Efficiency &Renewable Energy ................................... 165
Programme of Action for Vulnerable Communities ........................................................... 177
Programme of Action for Sea Level Rise and Coastal Infrastructure ............................. 180
Programme of Action for Green Jobs ................................................................................. 184
Programme of Action for Education and Learning ............................................................ 188
List of Tables
Table 1: Key features of the State .................................................................................... 8
Table 2: GSDP by broad sectors - sectoral contribution (percentage) ........................... 10
Table 3: Decadal frequency of cold wave conditions for selected stations ................... 25
Table 4: Decadal frequency of heat wave conditions for selected stations .................... 25
Table 5: Decadal frequency of heavy rainfall events in selected stations ...................... 25
Table 6: Frequencies of occurrence of cold waves and hot waves for different periods 25
Table 7:Possible impacts of Climate Change on Various Sectorsin Asia ...................... 31
Table 8: Salinity ingress impacts on agriculture and animal husbandry......................... 33
Table 9: Health indicators for the State of Gujarat ......................................................... 39
Table 10: Probable health impacts of salinity ingress, district wise................................ 41
Table 11: Forest cover in Gujarat (2007) ....................................................................... 42
Table 12: Estimated losses in coastal wetland (km2) in different possible scenarios of
sea level rise .................................................................................................................. 44
Table 13: Losses in coastal wetland if the present trend continues for next 100 years . 45
Table 14: Installed power capacity in western region (MW) ........................................... 51
Table15: Private capacity in Gujarat (MW)..................................................................... 51
Table 16: Renewable energy potential in Gujarat .......................................................... 52
Table 17: Key industries in Gujarat ................................................................................ 58
Table 18: Progress of Industrial Entrepreneurs Memorandum (IEM) - Gujarat and other
key states (August 1991 to November 2009) ................................................................. 59
Table 19: Road network ................................................................................................. 61
Table 20: Net area irrigated by source (Area in '00 ha) ................................................. 67
Table 21: Consumption of chemical fertilizers in Gujarat ............................................... 68
Table 22: Broad resilience strategies as propagated through the Surat Resilience Plan71
Table 23: Number of villages and activities in Gujarat ................................................... 84
Table 24: District wise-mangrove cover (sq km) in Gujarat (FSI, 2005)....................... 110
Table 25: Summary of MOUs signed during Vibrant Gujarat 2011 .............................. 147
Table 26: Schemes having potential of employment generation during year 2011-2012
..................................................................................................................................... 173
Table 27:Achievement under the Twenty Point Programme (TPP) at the end of January-
2011 during the year 2010-2011 .................................................................................. 174
List of Figures
Figure 1: Steps to the preparation of Gujarat SAPCC...................................................... 6
Figure 2: Districts of Gujarat............................................................................................ 7
Figure 3: Components of Gross State Domestic Product ................................................ 9
Figure 4:Percentage growth of urban population to total population in 2011 over 2001 11
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Figure 5: Demand and supply of electricity in Gujarat.................................................... 12

Figure 6: Sector wise energy consumption patterns for the next ten years ................... 12
Figure 7: Renewable consumption in Million Units (MUs) (included in total consumption -
MUs) ............................................................................................................................... 13
Figure 8: Policies, programmes and projects of Government of Gujarat which have
direct/indirect thrust on GHG mitigation ......................................................................... 14
Figure 9: Policies, programmes and projects of Govt. of Gujarat which have
direct/indirect thrust onadaptation .................................................................................. 16
Figure 10: Spatial patterns of linear trends of (a) maximum and (b) minimum
temperature .................................................................................................................... 22
Figure 11:Trends in annual extreme rainfall. (Dark green color indicates increasing
trends) ............................................................................................................................ 23
Figure 12: (a, b, c and d): Mean annual surface air temperature climatology based on
observations and simulated by three PRECIS runs compared with the observed
climatology for baseline period (1961-1990); (e): Projected changes in the annual
surface air temperature in 2030’s with respect to the 1970’s. ........................................ 26
Figure 13: Changes in the minimum (upper panel) and maximum temperatures (lower
panel) in 2030s with respect to baseline. ....................................................................... 27
Figure 14: (a) Change in frequency of rainy days, (b) Change in intensity of rainydays.
Both changes are observed in 2030s with respect to 1970s .......................................... 27
Figure 15: Food production and average daily rainfall for Gujarat ................................. 32
Figure 16: Projected impacts (PRECIS) ........................................................................ 35
Figure 17: Ground water utilization pattern of Gujarat ................................................... 37
Figure 18: Type wise wetland distribution in Gujarat...................................................... 43
Figure 19: Sector-wise consumption of electricity (2011-12) ......................................... 47
Figure 20: Installed capacity of the State ....................................................................... 49
Figure 21: Gujarat: Contributing to the nation across sectors ........................................ 57
Figure 22: Share of industry sectors in Gujarat .............................................................. 58
Figure 23: Key industries with policy thrust and factor advantages in Gujarat ............... 59
Figure 24: Road map of Gujarat ..................................................................................... 61
Figure 25: Main ports of Gujarat..................................................................................... 63
Figure 26: Airports in Gujarat ......................................................................................... 64
Figure 27: Key railway stations in Gujarat ...................................................................... 64
Figure 28: Urbanisation projections................................................................................ 69
Figure 29: Approach of the action plan .......................................................................... 78
Figure 30: Nine thematic groups that addresses key priorities of the State ................... 79
Figure 32: Change in productivityof crops in Gujarat ..................................................... 82
Figure 31: Performance of Agriculture Sector in Gujarat at constant (2004-05) Prices
(Rs. In crore) .................................................................................................................. 82
Figure 33: Reduction in Number of Tubewells Dug each year in Gujarat ...................... 95
Figure 34: Ground water Development for the state of Gujarat ..................................... 97
Figure 35: Consumption pattern of electricity in Gujarat State ....................................... 98
Figure 36: Panam dam constructed in 1978 .................................................................. 99
Figure 37: Unique project with both mitigation and adaptation connotations ............... 101
Figure 38: Location Narara, Gulf of Kachchh, Jamnagar ............................................. 111
Figure 39: RSPM Concentration in Ahmedabad .......................................................... 126
Figure 40: Gas grid covering various districts of Gujarat ............................................. 127
Figure 42: Sachivalaya smart grid report ..................................................................... 146
Figure 41: Generation report of solar panel installation at Sachivalaya site ................ 146
Figure 43: Wind Power Addition in Gujarat .................................................................. 147
Figure 44: Multi-pronged approach for mainstreaming urban poor .............................. 170
Figure 45: Coordination Mechanism for State Action Plan on Climate Change ........... 202
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List of Boxes
Box 1: Vision of the Gujarat State Action Plan on Climate Change ................................. 5
Box 2: Vibrant Gujarat Summit, 2011 ............................................................................. 11
Box 3: Data and model projections used........................................................................ 23
Box 4: Cyclone risk analysis........................................................................................... 29
Box 5: Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) ................................................ 29
Box 6: Bal Urja Rakshak Dal .......................................................................................... 54
Box 7: Sardar Sarovar Project........................................................................................ 55
Box 8: Reducing Vehicle usage in Ahmedabad ............................................................. 62
Box 9: Gandhinagar – The Solar City............................................................................. 73
Box 10: National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture ..................................................... 81
Box 11: Approach to SAPCC Priorities for 2014-2019 ................................................... 85
Box 12: National Water Mission ..................................................................................... 93
Box 13: National Mission for a Green India .................................................................. 108
Box 14: Approach to SAPCC Priorities for 2014-2019 ................................................. 112
Box 16: National Mission on Sustainable Habitat......................................................... 125
Box 17: Respirable Suspended Particulate Matter....................................................... 126
Box 19: National Solar Mission National Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency ...... 144
Box 21: Gujarat’s initiatives for vulnerable communities .............................................. 168
Box 23: Addressing Sea Level Rise ............................................................................. 178
Box 26: Functions of the Department of Climate Change ............................................ 200
Box 27: Members of the Steering Committee on Climate Change............................... 201

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SAPCC: Draft Report

The Energy and Resources Institute

Gujarat is recognized for the pace of its economic growth. Although

The Government of Gujarat is committed to building a sustainable and

This section provides a brief introduction to preparation of SAPCC in the

1.0 Introduction to Gujarat State Action Plan on

The Government of Gujarat is committed to building a sustainable and climate resilient

authored “Convenient Action - Gujarat’s Response to Challenges of Climate Change”,a

1.2 The State Action Plan on Climate Change

Box 1: Vision of the Gujarat State Action Plan on Climate Change

 Mainstreaming action on Climate Change in Government Departments

In 2008, the Government of Gujarat executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)

2.0 Gujarat – An Overview

2.1Physiography and Climate

Table 1: Key features of the State

Population density 308

Source: DoES, 2008, Census of India 2011, GoG 2013

2.3 Economic Growth and Development

Table 2: GSDP by broad sectors - sectoral contribution (percentage)

Effective governance enables Gujarat to be in a position to harness economic

2.3.1 Rapid urbanization

According to the Development Programme Report 2011-12 (GoG, 2012), urbanization

Source: GoG, 2011

2010-11 is 30 billion, which is an approximate tenfold increase in the budget of Urban

2.3.2 Demand for energy services

Policy drivers and planned

Given the recent growth

Source: Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Limited

Figure 7: Renewable consumption in Million Units (MUs) (included in

Source: Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Limited

2.4 Policies and Measures

Figure 8: Policies, programmes and projects of Government of Gujarat which have

2.5 Institutions and Governance

Gujarat has placed considerable emphasis on empowerment of village level institutions

Gujarat is also a pioneer State to implement the programme of Decentralized District

Informing an effective response to Climate Change requires a decentralized and

To encourage decentralization of planning, starting at the finest level of governance, in

[Para linking this section to nex

3.0 Climate Trends and Projections

3.2 Observed climate trends over Indian region

Indian annual mean

Figure 11 shows trend analysis of extreme

3.3 Observed trends over Gujarat

This chapter brings out climate variability over

Box 3: Data and model projections used

Table 4: Decadal frequency of heat wave

Table 5: Decadal frequency of heavy Table 6: Frequencies of

3.4 Climate Change Projections

The spatial pattern of the change in

Projections of extreme rainfall

3.4.1 Temperature variation

3.4.2 Rainfall variation

3.4.3 Sea level change

3.4.4 Cyclone intensity

Box 4: Cyclone risk analysis

3.5 Gaps to be addressed

Box 5: Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES)

4.0 Climate Vulnerabilities and Impacts

Mainstreaming action on Climate Change in Government Departments