The Revised Operational Guidelines (2009) of the National
Afforestation Programme (NAP) are being issued to further
decentralise the project cycle management of the Scheme
with a view to expedite fund transfer to the village-level
implementing organisation, that is the Joint Forest Management Committees (JFMCs) and Eco-development Committees (EDCs), to embed the Scheme in the overall forestry

The scheme titled National Afforestation Programme (NAP) has been formulated by merger of four 9th Plan centrally sponsored afforestation schemes of the Ministry of Environment & Forests, namely, Integrated Afforestation and Eco-Development Projects