Who runs it?

Role	Who	What it does
Administrator	Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE), Dehradun	Runs the programme, writes guidelines and procedures, and issues green credits (Rule 7)
Steering Committee	Set up by the Central Government, with ministries, experts and others	Reviews the programme and recommends ways to create demand (Rules 8 and 14)
Designated agency	Bodies named by the Administrator	Verifies activities and reports to the Administrator (Rules 4 and 13)
Registry and trading platform	Set up under the Administrator	Records each credit; a domestic trading platform is provided for in the Rules (Rules 10 and 11)
State Forest Departments	Each State and Union territory	Identify and register degraded forest land parcels and carry out or supervise work on the ground

Registration, payments and records are handled through the Green Credit Programme portal, moefcc-gcp.in. The government also says land parcels are checked by Divisional and State Nodal Officers so that the same land is not already under another plantation scheme or set aside for compensatory afforestation, to avoid double counting (PIB, 16 March 2026).