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Green drive in full swing in Nizamabad
District Collector Yogita Rana said 2.10-crore saplings were being grown in various nurseries as part of the Haritha Haram programme to retain the last year’s first position in implementing the plantation drive.
2.1-crore saplings are grown to turn the district lush green; Collector Yogita Rana inspects nurseries
Nizamabad: District Collector Yogita Rana said 2.10-crore saplings were being grown in various nurseries as part of the Haritha Haram programme to retain the last year’s first position in implementing the plantation drive.
On Saturday morning, she went round various nurseries in the district. She said at least three nurseries for each mandal had been set up through the District Water Management Agency (DWMA) out of the total 60 Forest Department nurseries in the district. The nurseries will grow saplings over and above the target in the district.
As desired by the Chief Minister, saplings had been planted in 500 acres of the reserve forest land, she said adding that another 500 acres of land had been identified to grow fodder for sheep and goats. As part of the afforestation programme, measures to augment groundwater table and prevent fire accidents in forests were being put in place, she said.
All nurseries have been supplied with nets. Plants needed to take up bund plantations, domestic plantation and institutional plantations were being grown in nurseries, she said.
All steps to protect the existing saplings till June second week, when the monsoon was supposed to arrive as per the Met officials, she said. A call center would be set up in the District Forest Office and each district officials had been made accountable to one nursery. Call center staff would refer problems of at least two or three nurseries to the officials concerned to get them resolved, she said.
Earlier, she went round various nurseries in Mamidipalli in Makloor mandal, she said. She visited the adjoining forest area where the district forest officer apprised her of the measures initiated to contain the spread of wild fire.
She also drove the official jeep from Mamidipalli to Chinnapur where saplings have been planted in the reserve forest area.
Afterwards she returned to city and inspected the amusement equipment installed in the children’s horticultural park in Sarangapur. She asked the District Forest Officer to get more equipment installed. Later, she inspected a nursery in Gandhi Nagar in the city and the one at Mosra in Warni mandal of the district.
District Forest Officer Prasad, Sub-DSOs and other forest range officials accompanied the district collector on her tour of nurseries.
By: Ali Murthuza Mohammed
