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40,000 saplings planted on KTR’s 40th birthday
Marking the 40th birthday of IT Minister Kalvakuntla Taraka Rama Rao, TRS leaders and locals have planted 40,000 saplings in Peddapendyal on Monday.
Warangal: Marking the 40th birthday of IT Minister Kalvakuntla Taraka Rama Rao, TRS leaders and locals have planted 40,000 saplings in Peddapendyal on Monday.
The programme was held under the aegis of Father Colombo Trust chairman Rajarapu
Pratap.
The programme was attended by Ggovernment Advisor G Vivekanand along with Station Ghanpur MLA Dr T Rajaiah, MLC Palla Rajeshwar Reddy and Commissioner of Police G Sudheer Babu. They planted the saplings at various educational institutions at Peddapendyala and Karunapuram.
Speaking on the occasion, Vivekanand called upon the youth to take the responsibility of making the Telangana government’s Telanganaku Haritha Haram programme a grand success and help increase green cover in the State.
He stressed on the need to protection of the saplings planted and asked the students play a key role in environmental protection. The students must water the saplings they have planted every day before and after school, he suggested.
Vivekanand lauded the trust’s efforts in following the call given by the Minister KTR to plant saplings instead of cutting cakes and other celebrations on his birthday. The initiatives by the IT Minister were being appreciated by entrepreneurs in the US, he noted.
Pratap informed that they have aimed planting one lakh saplings in Station Ghanpur constituency. As part of the programme this plantation of 40,000 saplings on the occasion of KTR’s birthday was taken up.
Saplings were distributed door-to-door and in educational institutions at Karunapuram and Peddapenyal. Soon 60,000 saplings would be planted in the villages, he added.
The heads of several educational institutions, students and locals attended the programme.
