- Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, Rural Development & Panchayati Raj Shri Narendra Singh Tomar inaugurated
- 22 bamboo clusters in 9 States (Gujarat, MP, Maharashtra, Odisha, Assam, Nagaland, Tripura, Uttarakhand and Karnataka).
- A logo for the National Bamboo Mission was also released.
- The Government’s goal in the bamboo sector is being achieved with the concerted efforts of all stakeholders of the Bamboo Mission.
- Import policy has also been modified to ensure progress of the bamboo industry in the country.
- The restructured National Bamboo Mission was launched in 2018-19 for holistic development of the complete value chain of the sector.
- Import policy has also been modified to ensure progress of the bamboo industry in the country.
- The restructured National Bamboo Mission was launched in 2018-19 for holistic development of the complete value chain of the sector.
- The Mission is being implemented in a hub (industry) and spoke model, with the main goal of
- Connecting farmers to markets so as to enable farmer producers to get a ready market for the bamboo grown and to increase supply of appropriate raw material to domestic industry.
- The Mission was launched as a natural corollary of the historic amendment of the Indian Forest Act in 2017, removing bamboo from the definition of trees, hence bamboo grown outside forests no longer need felling and transit permissions.
- The winner of the logo contest, Shri Sai Ram Goudi Edigi of Telengana was selected from 2033 entries received on MyGov platform from across the country.
- The logo portrays a bamboo culm in the center of a circle composed of half an industrial wheel and half farmers, depicting the objectives of NBM appropriately.
- The green and yellow colour of the logo symbolise bamboo often termed as green gold.
