Q17 · UPPSC PCS Mains 2023 · GS VI (UP) · 12 marks · ~200 words in the hall · 2 min read

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Present an account of the missions included in the State Action Plan on Climate Change in Uttar Pradesh.

Topic: Environment and climate of UP. Syllabus: Pollution and Environmental Issues in UP, Pollution Control Board and its functions. Natural Resources of UP — Soil, Water, Air, Forests, Grasslands, Wetlands. Climate Change and Weather Forecasting issues in UP. Habitat and Ecosystem, structure and function, adjustment, Flora and Fauna with reference to UP. Same official PYQ from year-wise 2023 and Environment and climate of UP.

Revision summary

UP SAPCC restates NAPCC missions for a plains state. Energy heads are solar and efficiency against a thermal mix. Land-water heads are sustainable agriculture, water, and Green U.P. forestry. Habitat, strategic knowledge, health, and disaster complete the account. Terai–Shivalik stands in for a thin Himalayan head; schemes, not labels, implement.

Model answer

Introduction

The Uttar Pradesh State Action Plan on Climate Change translates the National Action Plan’s missions onto a plains state: solar and efficiency, water, sustainable agriculture, green cover, habitat, and strategic knowledge — with health and disaster often sitting beside them. An account is a list with a ground test: Bundelkhand drought, terai flood, doab heat, and a coal-heavy power mix.

Body

Energy missions

  • The solar mission in the SAPCC is grid-scale parks, agricultural pumps, and rooftops, so that peak heat load does not only add thermal plants.
  • Enhanced energy efficiency covers DISCOM loss-cutting, industrial PAT-style saving, LED and building codes — the cheapest climate ton in a dense state.
  • Together they are the mitigation core; U.P. cannot NAPCC-talk its way out of a still-thermal baseload without them.

Land, water, food

  • Sustainable agriculture is climate-resilient seed, agroforestry, millet revival, livestock heat-stress, and insurance — the mission that touches the most voters.
  • Water mission is recharge, canal lining, micro-irrigation, flood-plain zoning, and Bundelkhand tanks; without it agriculture and habitat missions leak.
  • Green India / Green U.P. is social forestry, CAMPA, protected areas, and urban trees — carbon plus livelihood, not a CDM fantasy.

Habitat, knowledge, health

  • Sustainable habitat is compact towns, AMRUT water-sewer, heat-resilient housing, and public transport/metro so that urban U.P. is not only an AC load.
  • Strategic knowledge is universities, MC Lucknow data, downscaled scenarios, and a climate cell that actually briefs departments.
  • Health and disaster (heat action, vector, flood) are the human missions; they belong in the account even when folded under habitat or a separate SAPCC chapter.
  • Himalayan ecosystem as a national head is thin in U.P.; the functional substitute is terai–Shivalik and river morphology, which the plan must not skip.

Account, not poster

  • Missions overlap: solar pumps are energy and water and agriculture. The plan is a coordination file.
  • Implementation is departmental schemes — KUSUM-type solar, PMKSY, CAMPA, metro — judged by outcomes, not by reprinting NAPCC names.

Flow diagram

flowchart TD
  SAP[UP SAPCC] --> EN[Solar efficiency]
  SAP --> AG[Agriculture water]
  SAP --> GR[Green UP habitat]
  SAP --> SK[Knowledge health disaster]
  EN --> G[Ground Bundelkhand terai doab]
  AG --> G
  GR --> G
  SK --> G

Conclusion

UP SAPCC missions are solar, energy efficiency, water, sustainable agriculture, green cover, sustainable habitat, and strategic knowledge, with health and disaster as live companions. They matter when Bundelkhand water, terai flood, and doab heat move, not when the NAPCC list is copied into a Lucknow PDF.

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  • Explain the ecological importance of the Wildlife Sanctuaries in the Tarai region of Uttar Pradesh.

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  • Does U.P. run a Himalayan climate mission like Uttarakhand?

    Not as a mountain state. The live substitute is terai–Shivalik ecology and river morphology inside water and green missions.

  • Are SAPCC missions separate budgets?

    Usually they tag existing schemes — solar, irrigation, forestry, urban — and demand coordination. The mission is a folder, not always a new treasury head.

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