Tree plantation drive launched across KP
PESHAWAR: The tree plantation campaign was launched across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday as part of 10 billion tree drive announced by the federal government.
Majority of the public sector educational institutions in the provincial capital remained opened on Sunday and the students and teachers took part in the tree plantation campaign.
Commissioner Shahab Ali Shah opened the campaign by planting a sapling at Shaheed Hasnain Sharif Government Higher Secondary School No 1, Peshawar City.At the University of Peshawar, senior officials of the district administration joined hands with the university officials to kick off the plantation drive.
They planted saplings at different lawns and other places in the university to formally launch the campaign.Almost all educational institutions remained open and different activities pertaining to tree plantation took place there. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government has been very keen on the plantation of trees in the province and the country.
During its five-year previous rule in the province, a record number of trees were planted in the province under ‘Billion Tree Tsunami’ project. The federal government announced to plant 10 million trees in the country.
At the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Peshawar, its chairman Dr Fazlur Rahman along with other staff members and students of different institutions planted saplings to conduct the drive.
The district administration in Peshawar has planned plantation initiative in collaboration with the Forest Department after the federal government announced that September 2 would be celebrated as “green day.”
In order to achieve plantation of 200,000 plants, meetings were conducted at DC Office Peshawar under the chairmanship of Deputy Commissioner Peshawar Dr Imran Hamid Sheikh. Targets were assigned to the Forest, Education, Revenue, Agriculture, Irrigation, Livestock and other departments of the provincial capital. About 1,500 scouts also joined hands with the government and the citizens to take part in the plantation campaign.
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