Kerala plants one crore saplings on environment day
Team Udayavani, Jun 5, 2017, 2:33 PM IST
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala joined the nation in observing World Environment Day today with the government taking lead by distributing one crore saplings for planting across the state.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in his Environment Day message sought the support and cooperation of all sections of the society in the government’s efforts of tree plantation.
Known Malayalam actor Mohanlal participated in the sapling of plants programme at a college here.
Governor P Sathasivam planted a sapling at the Raja Bhavan compound as part of day’s celebrations.
Schools, local self-government bodies and voluntary associations took part in the plant sapling programmes of the government under ‘Green Kerala Mission’.
Importance of this year’s tree plantation is that government has done away with acacia and eucalyptus that draw a lot of groundwater and distributed only fruit bearing and environment friendly trees.
A campaign titled ‘Connecting People to Nature’ was also launched besides starting a programme to cut down trees that were harmful to the environment.
Meanwhile, BJP as part of its green campaign ‘Jalswaraj’, distributed more than 10 lakh saplings across the state for planting.
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