The Urban Administration department (UAD) has issued directives to the officials to carry out a major plantation drive in their respective areas. The department has set a target of planting 1.75 lakh saplings for all municipalities.
The Joint Secretary of Urban Administration Department has conveyed the target to be achieved by the Commissioners of municipal corporations and chief municipal officers of the municipalities and asked them to go for tree plantation according to the target.He has also directed officials to provide a ‘monthly achievement report’ on plantation.
The department has set a target of plantation of 6300 saplings for Raipur Municipal Corporation (RMC) and 6,000 saplings for each of the remaining nine municipal corporations. The municipalities have been directed to carry out plantation of 1600 saplings . The 28 municipalities have been given a target of planting 51,200 saplings while Nagar Panchayats have handed over a target of plantation of 500 saplings each.
The officers have been instructed not to plant Jatropha saplings on the side of the roads. They have been asked to plant those saplings on roadside which grow at a brisk rate. The plants which beautify the road should also be selected for plantation. They have been asked to plant neem saplings also.Directives have also been issued to carry out dense plantation in the vacant land of the schools and hostels with campus greater than one acre.
For Bastar and Surguja districts, directives have been given for plantation of Kusum and Mahua tress besides bamboo. For remaining districts in the division, it has been asked for plantation of bamboo saplings.