A massive plantation drive was undertaken by the Saha Charitable Trust country-wide on the World Environment Day. Saplings of perennial trees were planted simultaneously at New Delhi, UP, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, WB, TN including at many places in Odisha.
Places of plantation in Odisha included Maa Shikharchandi foothills, premises of 7th Battalion, 1st Battalion, 8th Battalion of Odisha State Armed Police premises, SOG Chandaka, Puri, Gop, Banki, Chatia, Baleswar, Brahmapur, Chattrapur, Dhenkanal, Digapahandi.
The plantation works started commencing simultaneously at all places of the country.Chairman of the Saha Charitable Trust Santha Jeeban Baba exhorted the participants through video conferencing to plant the saplings.
At Bhubaneswar site near Shikharchandi, prominent among others present were DCP Armed Bijay Kumar Sahu of the 7th Battalion, Commandant SOG Chandaka Ajay Kumar Padhi, environmentalist Khitish Tripathy, plantation activists Mukesh Bagadia, Ramkrushna Sahoo, Kishore Agrawal, Purna Chandra Panda, Birendra Betala and Arun Panda.
This is pertinent to mention here that the Saha Charitable Trust under the stewardship of Jeeban Baba has already planted over two lakh perennial and fruit-yielding trees in Odisha alone over the last one decade.