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Implement Haritha Haram for more rainfall: Pocharam.
Minister for Agriculture and Cooperatives Pocharam Srinivas Reddy called upon the people’s representatives and officials to involve themselves with greater commitment in the successful implementation of the prestigious Haritha Haram programme taken up by the State government to enhance the greenery in the Telangana State.
Nizamabad: Minister for Agriculture and Cooperatives Pocharam Srinivas Reddy called upon the people’s representatives and officials to involve themselves with greater commitment in the successful implementation of the prestigious Haritha Haram programme taken up by the State government to enhance the greenery in the Telangana State.
He said that they should become partners in the implementation of the programme.
Addressing the officials of concerned departments through a video conference from the Collectorate in the town on Monday, the Agriculture Minister said that only trees bring rains and added that although there were thick clouds hovering in the sky, they were being blown away by winds without giving any rain.
The areas in which there were lot of trees were getting bountiful rains while other areas were remaining dry, he added and stressed the need to expand the green cover in the State. Places like Banswada, Tadvai, Lingampeta and Kammarpalli mandals received deficit rainfall as the number of trees were less in those regions, he lamented.
Minister Pocharam said that the officials, MPs and MLAs should take up the haritha-haram programme with great zeal and enthusiasm as if they were participating in some revolution. It’s the only way to fight drought, he added.
However, Pocharam expressed his unhappiness over the tardy pace of the implementation of the Haritha Haram programme and pulled up the officials for their laxity.
He asked them as to why they were not conducting awareness camps on Haritha Haram in the villages to bring awareness among the people. He said that two gram panchayats were formed into a cluster under an officer and a nodal officer was appointed for each village panchayat for the implementation of the Haritha-Haram programme.
Besides, a Commissioner was appointed for each municipality for implementing the programme, he added.
The Agriculture Minister said that it was the sole responsibility of the nodal officers and cluster officers to ensure that 40,000 saplings were planted in each village panchayat.
He said that pits should be dug up first before getting the saplings from the nurseries. No plant should be allowed to wither away and they should be carefully nurtured, Pocharam added.
The Minister said that the farmers and villagers should be enlightened about the funds released by the State government for the plantation drive and a flexi should be arranged in each village.
He said that the State government’s target was to plant 10 crore saplings during the next three years in the Nizamabad district. He said that the thinly forest areas in the 1.7 lakh hectares would be made into a dense forest region by planting 9 crore saplings.
By this, the tree cover would expand by another one lakh hectares and the greenery would rise by 35 percent, he added.
Pocharam stressed the need to grow gardens and fruit orchards in the premises of government, private organizations and factories. Farmers should be taught to grow teak and silver oak trees.
Zilla Parishad Chairman Dafidar Raju, MLC P G Goud, District Collector Yogitha Rana, Joint Collector A Ravinder Reddy, Principal Conservator of Forests S K Gupta, divisional forest officers, DWMA project director and others were present.
