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Scanty rains play spoilsport; plantation drive put off
With scanty rainfall recorded across the State over the last few days, the Panchayat Raj Department has postponed its mega programme of planting nearly 40 lakh saplings along the stretch of 10,000 km long roads.
Hyderabad: With scanty rainfall recorded across the State over the last few days, the Panchayat Raj Department has postponed its mega programme of planting nearly 40 lakh saplings along the stretch of 10,000 km long roads.
Announcing the decision at TRSLP office on Wednesday, Panchayat Raj Minister Jupally Krishna Rao said the decision was taken based on the scanty rainfall the State received over the last few days. He, however, said Haritha Haram programme would continue as usual and asked the citizens to take care of the planted saplings.
Further the Minister informed that the government would provide funds for taking care of every sapling planted. Based on the tree type, the government has decided to provide Rs 5 to Rs 15 per month. For teak and toddy plants, Rs 5 will be given to the people who have planted the saplings, for roadside plantation Rs 12 and for preserving the fruit trees, Rs 15 will be given.
He said the government had fixed a target of planting 5 crore toddy trees and the responsibility of taking care of these trees lies with the sarpanches, secretary, field assistants in villages, and MPDOs and MROs in mandals.
Meanwhile, the Minister lashed out at the Opposition party leaders for creating hurdles in the irrigation projects in Mahbubnagar. He said D K Aruna of the Congress, A Revanth Reddy of the TDP and Nagam Janardhan Reddy of the BJP were deliberately opposing the projects.
“These leaders did nothing when their parties were in power. But now they are trying to create controversies. If the projects are stopped because of litigations, the people of Mahbubnagar will never spare these leaders,” said Krishna Rao.
