8.
The answer is: B
Explanation
The Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman introduced new ecological conservation schemes and policies during her budget speech, as part of a larger "green push" aimed at addressing environmental and climate change issues in India. One such initiative is MISHTI (Mangrove Initiative for Shoreline Habitats & Tangible Incomes), which will facilitate the plantation of mangroves on India's coastline and salt pan lands through convergence between MGNREGS, Campa Fund, and other sources. The programme aims to intensively afforest coastal mangrove forests that are found on both the Eastern and Western coasts of India, with the Sundarbans in Bengal being one of the largest mangrove forests globally.