As a part of series of events for celebration of Van Mahotsav 2013, the UT Forest and Wildlife Department in collaboration with UT Education Department celebrated ‘Herbal Day’ on Thursday.
The celebration took place in the campus of Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 16 here where the chief guest UT Finance cum Education Secretary VK Singh planted sapling of ‘Dal Chini’. Singh also inaugurated the herbal corner created by the school.
The objective of celebrating the ‘Herbal Day’ was to sensitize the masses especially school children to generate awareness about the medicinal values of various plants of nature and to make Chandigarh more clean and green city.