In a massive plantation drive, the Green World Trust under the stewardship of its chairman Nrupesh Kumar Nayak has started making the surroundings green around crematoriums and hospitals in Bhubaneswar.
Inaugurating the programme recently, Minister for Science & Technology Ashok Chandra Panda praised the efforts of the organisation to render an envelope of green around the crematoriums and the hospitals.
Chief guest city Mayor Sulochana Das also lauded the efforts of the Green World Trust over the last decade in planting tens and thousands of perennial trees by the sides of the Bhubaneswar-Puri road and in places in and around the city with a view to providing ambrosial sheds to the passersby. Guest of honour MLA Ananta Narayan Jena also profusely thanked the chairman of the trust for his endeavour without any big burden on the BMC.
Trust chairman Nayak emphasised on guarantee towards 100% survival of the trees. This is to mention here that the BMC has provided only three guards and QPM without any other financial sanction.
A good number of BMC officers and officials together with a large number of senior citizens, nature lovers assembled at the IRC Govt. UP School and at crematorium sites where the plantation took place.