Spread Haritha Haram across district: Collector

Spread Haritha Haram across district: Collector
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District Collector Yogitha Rana said that the Haritha haaram programme would be held from June 8 to 22 and directed the officials of various departments to participate in a tree plantation drive in all the municipalities and gram panchayats. 

Nizamabad: District Collector Yogitha Rana said that the Haritha haaram programme would be held from June 8 to 22 and directed the officials of various departments to participate in a tree plantation drive in all the municipalities and gram panchayats.

Addressing the mandal change agents, MPDOs and other officials through a video conference from the Collectorate in the town on Monday, she said that that entire district administrative machinery should be involved in the plantation drive.

The District Collector said that five saplings should be planted in the premises of each house and warned that disciplinary action would be taken if official fails to take part in the programme. She said that every village and municipality should be made green and clean and added that open tracts of land should be covered with greenery. On June 8, 28 lakh saplings should be planted across the district, she added.

Collector Rana said that 13 lakh saplings should be planted in the premises of both government and private organizations. People should be made aware of the importance of tree plantation and the need for expanding green cover, she added. She said that under the Haritha Haaram programme, a monitory cell was setup at the district level to supply 40,000 saplings to each and every village.

Plants would also be supplied from the nearby nurseries to the villages, she added. She directed the joint director of agriculture to take steps and ensure that 1.35 crore saplings be planted by June 17 under the supervision of the department of agriculture and for this, pits should be dug up.

Yogitha Rana said that wall posters should be displayed at the anganwadi offices highlighting the importance of individual toilets and latrines. She said that one among the ten persons taking place in the country every day was due to lack of sanitation and cleanliness. People living in unhygienic conditions were prone to various types of diseases, she added.

The District Collector said that the Nizamabad district should be declared 100 per cent clean by October 2, Gandhi Jayanthi. She said that the construction of individual toilets should be completed in Tadvai, Gandhari, Machareddy, Bichkunda and Jukkal mandals by August 15.

DWMA project director Venkateshwarlu, DRDA project director Chandramohan Reddy, divisional forest officer Sujatha, zilla Parishad CEO Mohan Lal and others were present.

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