1 The Green India Mission (GIM): A Roadmap for Neo-liberal Exploitation in Forest Sourish Jha Assistant Professor Department of Political Science P.D. Women’s College Jalpaiguri, Pin-735101 West Bengal, India E-Mail: sourishjha@gmail.com Mob: +91-94746-88886 Abstract: The Green India Mission (GIM) is one of the eight Missions as announced by Prime Minister under the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) in 2008. The proposed Mission costing Rs 44,000 crores for ‘greening’ 10 million ha in India aims at addressing the issue of climate change by enhancing carbon sinks in the State’s forests and attempts simultaneously to increase resilience capacity of the forest ecosystem while enabling forest dependent communities for adaptation in the face of climatic vulnerability. Double the area under the flagship mission has been planned to be taken up in the next ten years between 2010-11 and 2019-20 for afforestation and eco-restoration activities through strengthening local community institutions like JFMCs and FDAs. Against the backdrop the present article would critically examine the Mission’s strategy for decentralizing forest governance in the context of ongoing participatory forest management practices where the so called community institutions implicitly or explicitly involve an inclusive technique of exploitation of forest communities under the rubric of ‘public-people participation’. The paper would expose further the neo-liberal schemata for incentivization of the community service through GIM for raising carbon stock to promote an integrated carbon market which ultimately will lead to defacement of the organic relationship between the community and the forest. Key words: Exploitation, GIM, Neo-liberal