Punjab Government is all set to use ultra-modern machines having capacity to uproot 20 feet deep trees and transplant them at other needed places.
“The State Government would soon make a purchase of such ultra-modern machines,” asserted the state local Government, Tourism and Cultural Affairs Minister, Navjot Singh Sidhu on Monday.
Sidhu, speaking during an event on ‘World Environment Day’ while initiating the project pertaining to Mohali regarding lifting of segregated waste material separately, said that the State Government was taking it as a mission to turn the State into a hub of greenery, and to ensure the success of the mission, more than lakh saplings would be planted across the state.
“It is imperative for every citizen to ensure clean and green environment so as to gift the legacy of a healthy breathing space to our future generations,” said Sidhu, who also launched a tree plantation campaign.
The State Government is also contemplating taking loan from the World Bank for harnessing the canal water and making it available to meet the requirements of the people thus fulfilling their quest for clean drinking water.
The Minister while lashing out at the previous SAD-BJP Government disclosed that out of 64 sewerage treatment plants established in Punjab, only three are operational.
Sidhu also divulged that a high capacity sewerage treatment plant would come up at Mohali to ensure robust water management and also that the water from the plant would be utilised for irrigation of crops thus giving a relief to farmers and for gardening purposes.
To boost recharging of underground water, the state local Government Department has prepared a proposal which would be
put up before the state cabinet for its approval in its next meeting.