Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan along with Shashank Dubey, Publisher and Editor of evening daily, ‘Sham Tak’, published from Bhopal and his team planted saplings on the occasion of the 18 th foundation day of the daily newspaper. Chouhan planted Peepal, Cassia and Gular saplings in the Smart City garden. Ritu Dubey, Nandini Dubey, Jayati Dubey, Sheshrao Solanki, Ramkrishna Pandey, Surjit Prajapati, Dinesh Soni and Chandresh also took part in the plantation programme.
The evening daily newspaper Sham Tak, being published from Bhopal for the last 17 years, is committed to alerting the general public about the dangers of climate change and global warming and motivating people to organize environment-protection activities. Tthe newspaper publishes activities related to Green Madhya Pradesh prominently. The newspaper family is celebrating its 18th foundation day with its readers, family, friends and colleagues by planting saplings. Among the saplings planted in the Smart Garden on Thursday, Peepal purifies the environment and has religious and Ayurvedic significance as well. Similarly, the bark and leaves of Cassia are used in making Ayurvedic medicines. Saptaparni is an evergreen medicinal tree, which has great importance in Ayurveda. Gular is helpful in the diagnosis of many diseases. It is also a much revered tree.