Hyderabad: Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao will launch a drive to plant 1,00,116 saplings in Gajwel town on August 1 as part of the Haritha Haram project. In addition to this, the CM has also issued orders to plant 20,000 more saplings in the forest areas on the same day.
Mr Rao has urged public representatives, government officials, police personnel, students, businessmen and common people to take part in the drive.
The CM wants the saplings to be planted on both sides of roads and on the premises of public and private institutions and places of worship. He said the plantation drive should be taken up at a large scale while encouraging people’s participation to make it a grand success.
Mr Rao said this at a review meeting in Pragathi Bhavan.
“To regain lost forest cover and the greenery, we have conceived and launched the Haritha Haram programme. From 2019, we will plant 100 crore saplings a year. We are establishing nurseries in every village where 25 per cent of the saplings will be those of fruit-bearing trees. The monkey menace will reduce only if we grow wild fruit-bearing trees. At Komatibanda village in Gajwel constituency, the saplings planted as part of rejuvenation of forests have come up very well. This has to be taken as a role model by all,” the Chief Minister said.
He said the ratio of people and plants India is lagging far behind. “In Canada, it is 8,953 on an average for each person, in Russia it is 4,465, in the US it is 716 and China has 102, where as in India it is only 28 trees per person,” said the Mr Rao.
