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Take-up block plantation on barren lands: District Collector
District Collector Yogitha Rana said that block plantations would be taken up on rocky surfaces of government lands in partnership with the community.
Nizamabad: District Collector Yogitha Rana said that block plantations would be taken up on rocky surfaces of government lands in partnership with the community.
Addressing a review meeting with the district forest department officials and Tahsildars at the Collectorate here on Friday, she told the Tahsildars and forest officials to scout for undisputed lands and barren lands unfit for irrigation purposes so that one lakh saplings could be planted there under the Haritha Haram programme.
The District Collector said that efforts must be made to plant saplings on 250 acres in each mandal under the community block plantation programme.
This comes to around 36 lakh saplings on 9000 acres of land across 36 mandals in the district, she added. She said that the officials concerned should also take steps to protect these plants till they grow by watering them, making fencing arrangements and using fertilisers wherever necessary.
They would be made model plantation blocks, she added.
Collector Rana directed them to take up plantation drive from August 9 and complete it by August 15 and said that the MPDOs were entrusted with the responsibility of appointing labourers to take up the plantation works.
She said that they should also grow plants, fruits and flowers which are used for worshipping the Goddess during the Bathukamma festival on five per cent of the lands.
Trees like peepal , shami , amla and kundudu trees which have religious significance should be grown, she added.
The District Collector said that these block plantation would be made into biodiversity regions and the Haritha Haram programme should start yielding results in another three years.
Additional Chief Conservator of Forests S K Gupta said that Haritha Haram would definitely start yielding results in another three years and added that sapling would be brought from Medak district and HMDA for the community block plantations.
He said that drought resistant plants and those that do not require much water would be grown in these areas. He said that there should be a distance of three meters from each plant.
DFO Prasad, Joint Collector A Ravinder Reddy, several RDOs and DROs were present.
