The Janata Human Rights Forum, as a part of its “Go Green Drive” facilitated by the “World Tree Bank” initiated a plantation near Children’s Park at Tulasinagar here on Tuesday.
Brahmapur MP Chandra Sekhar Sahu graced the event as chief guest, while many high dignitaries and senior party functionaries of BJD including Brahmapur MLA Bikram Panda, former MLA and Ganjam District BJD president Dr RCC Pattnaik, senior BJD leader Jagannath Sabat, Ganjam district BJD vice-president Sanjeet Kumar Panigrahi, former Chairman of BeDA Subash C Maharana, former Corporator of Ward No.5 R Murali Mohan, Mahanagar president of Biju Yuva Janata Dal Ajit Panda, Brahmapur DFO Amlan Nayak and Honorary Wildlife Warden and social worker Sulapani Satapathy graced.
MLA Panda in his address said that the core objective of the initiative is to make Brahmapur clean and green. He said that such plantation drives will continue in other parts of the city in the days ahead. Among others, Ward president of Biju Yuva Janata Dal Manoj Sahu, GPCDA president Bishnu Prasad Panda, former president of Rotary Club of Brahmapur Central Zone Dr Kiran Kumar Panigrahi, director of World Tree Bank Sunita Rout, Dhaneswar Nayak, Rabindra Panda, Dr Sameer Kumar Nayak joined. More than fifty trees of different class having medicinal value including flower-borne trees like Mandar, Aanla, Chachinna, Gangaseuli, Neem were Tulasi, etc., were planted in and around the park.