The CAG highlighted the Green India Mission's significant failure to achieve forest cover targets. Observed forest cover increase fell short by nearly ninety-eight percent over ten years. The report cited financial mismanagement and improper planning as key reasons for this shortfall. Deficient monitoring and wrong landscape choices also contributed to the mission's poor performance.

Poor financial planning and weak alignment with existing state and Central schemes led to major shortfalls in implementing the Green India Mission, a new Comptroller and Auditor…

This was due to poor financial planning and non-alignment with existing state and central schemes, the Comptroller and Auditor General said in a report.