The Initiative on Green Growth and Development in India is a collaborative project which is being undertaken by the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). The initiative will examine strategies pursued at the national level and for the two states namely Punjab and Himachal Pradesh (HP). National strategies will be recommended by conducting macro-economic analysis using a CGE-MARKAL (Computable General Equilibrium- Market Allocation) framework; examining the policy framework for rural intervention strategies; and review of literature. The study will examine - at the state level - the biophysical domain (water, crop patterns, and land-use land-cover & forestry); climate change impacts; techno-economic outlook; and rural interventions (programmatic and technological).