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- Phayeng Village of Manipur has been tagged as India’s first carbon-positive settlement.
- Phayeng is a scheduled caste village of the Chakpa community in Imphal West district.
- Phayeng will receive a grant of Rs10 crore in phases to facilitate afforestation in the catchment of river Maklang that flows along the village.
- The transformation of the village from the dry and denuded village in the 1970s and 80s was funded under the National Adaptation Fund for Climate Change (NAFCC).
- Phayeng, which is surrounded by three densely forested hillocks with fruit trees at centre and a stream flowing through it, has been resurrected from the dry and denuded village it was in the 1970s and 80s through the sheer determination of its residents and funding under National Adaptation Fund for Climate Change (NAFCC), a central scheme to support adaptation to climate change impact in various states.
Story of the village
- They had no tree on these hills earlier.
- Umang kanba(forest protection committee) came up with various rules and involved all 660 families in the village in recreating the forest
- Strong traditional system of forest conservation
- According to the forest protection rules devised by the villagers, hunting is completely banned in the village except once a year when a deer is usually killed as sacrifice to the “forest gods”
- Phayeng will receive a grant of ₹10 crore in phases to facilitate afforestation in the catchment of river Maklang that flows along the village
- Before the project started, villagers were practising agriculture only in the monsoon months. Now, they work round the year and grow horticulture crops like watermelon, beans, cabbage, broccoli and others apart from paddy.
- Outsiders’ entry into the forest without permission if also restricted.
- There is also a monitoring system in place for forest fires.
- While the entire 200-acre land is patrolled by at least six people every day, only dry twigs are extracted for firewood.
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