Target to plant 11L saplings: Chief Secy

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Target to plant 11L saplings: Chief Secy

Tuesday, 16 July 2019 | Staff Reporter | Bhopal

Chief Secretary Sudhi Ranjan Mohanty said that a target to plant 11 lakh saplings in Bhopal has been set under the ‘Hara Bhopal-Sheetal Bhopal’ campaign.

The campaign should be transformed into public movement to achieve the target. Besides government agencies, this is possible only with the cooperation of social institutions and individuals’ initiative. Mohanty was addressing the meeting of Working Group formed for the implementation of ‘Hara Bhopal-Sheetal Bhopal’ campaign at Mantralaya on Monday.

Mohanty said that plantation should be encouraged in the entire state. Plants are being provided at low cost to ensure citizens’ participation and to connect them with the plantation. Sapling at the rate of just Rs. 10 is being made available. He also gave suggestion for planting suitable saplings of local varieties like aonla, harra, aam, jamun, neem, mahua, pipal, bargad, sagon, arjun, munga, neeebu, sitaphal, kadamb and morsi etc. as per the local climate and ambience. The plantation of these plants is being encouraged. Mohanty mentioned that arrangement should be made to provide plants demand letter with ease to the persons interested in plantation. Instructions were given to distribute demand letter from house to house.

Mohanty stated that media has an important role to convert plantation into public movement.

He appealed to the media to cooperate in publicizing efforts being made for plantation in positive way. Mohanty mentioned that it is must to make plantation a social accountability. He said that it should be ensured that trees should not be felled during the building construction. If it is necessary then it should be made essential to plant 10 times more saplings in place of felled trees.

While giving instructions to include educational institutions in the plantation campaign, the Chief Secretary said that names of students should be placed before saplings planted by them to keep them associated with the plantation. Responsibility for their nurturing should also be entrusted to them. He gave suggestion to undertake plantation also by guests and artists in government programmes. He further mentioned that a condition of plantation could be made mandatory while passing the map of building construction.

Besides, Mohanty said that bamboo plantation will be encouraged at non-forest fallow land.

A joint campaign by Panchayat and Rural Development and Forest Departments through self-help groups will be conducted for plantation of Katang Bamboo. After a certain period of time, the self-help groups will have right to cut bamboos. This could help in environment improvement and boost economic activities on fallow land. Giving an example of the Former Prime Minister Late Indira Gandhi, he informed that in order to save trees from felling, she had taken several steps to protect forests.

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