Pragati plants over one lakh splings

All city roads converged to Pragati Resorts on Monday with hundreds of school children, government officials, members of volunteer organisations and trade bodies flocking the venue for participating in Pragati’s Haritha Haaram Programme.

Pragati Group has taken up the programme to plant 1, 17,000 saplings at Pragati Biodiversity Knowledge Park spread over Proddutur and 12 other villages in line with the State government’s ‘Telanganaku Haritha Haaram’ to create green cover in Telangana.

Pragati’s plantation drive has turned into a public movement with the massive participation of the public from various walks of life and sections of the community. The programme commenced with a recitation of Ganesh Stuti by Dr GBK Rao, CMD Pragati Group in the presence of JM Lyngdoh, former Chief Election Commissioner of India and his wife; S Suresh Rao, Joint Commissioner, GHMC; G Ajay Chandra, Joint Managing Director Pragati Group and other dignitaries.

JM Lyngdoh was the chief guest for the programme and he applauded the efforts of Pragati Resorts. “Plants have been an integral part of the Indian Vedic culture and play a vital role for healthy living. I appeal to people to go for mass plantation in the respective areas and be an inspiration to the future generations.

As this generation is responsible for polluting the mother earth and creating a situation where we are living on the edge confronted with the manifestations of environmental destruction in the forms of Ozone layer depletion and global warming. Urgent, important words are gone; we need to go on a plantation drive on a war footing to save the planet from major catastrophes,” Dr GBK Rao said.