The Green Rayagada, an environment outfit led by KK Jena and Jogeswar Das, along with a number of other civil society organisations(CSOs) named Odisha Union of Working Journalists, Walkers Club, Om Shanti, Blu Dart Courier, ACC Cement ltd, CRPF-4th Battalion, lions Club took out a rally on the World Environment Day which started from Gajapati junction and culminated at Gandhi Park.
The rally with environment related slogans was jointly flagged off by district Collector Guha Poonam Tapas Kumar, SP K Siva Subramani, and Commandant, CRPF-4th Battalion Manoj Kumar Sharma. The dignitaries who participated in the rally were Chairperson, Rayagada Municipality V Gowri Jayanti, Vice-Chairperson Dr Niranjan Buxipatro, among others.
At the culmination point dignitaries like Manoj Kumar Sharma, SK Mohapatra, Badal Kumar Tah, Jogeswar Das and Rajesh Kumar Padhi addressed the gathering. While Sharma emphasised on planting more and more trees to contain global warming, Das requested urged people to protect at least the existing trees. Mohapatra described the effort of JK Paper Mills in its massive plantation drive including the avenue plantation in collaboration with the forest department.
He even went on to say about a novel way of maximising the survival of the trees through a gel technology.
Tah reiterated the need of enumerating the number of plants planted by the State and non-State actors for last five years. He expressed his concern about the statistical jugglery projected specially by the forest department and professed a reality check by an independent entity like people’s task force. KK Jena extended vote of thanks.