Punjab Government on Tuesday launched a unique initiative under which not only the students and teachers of all ITIs, Polytechnics and Engineering Colleges across the State would plant saplings, but will also bear the responsibility of raising and planting the same.
launching the ‘Every Student and Teacher Raise a Tree’ campaign, Punjab Technical Education and Industrial Training Charanjit Singh Channi said that the main motive was to ensure maximum care of planted trees besides planting maximum number of saplings to make a significant contribution to environmental conservation.
The campaign was launched with the help of the state Forest Department, after the decision was decision was taken during a meeting with Forests and Social Welfare Minister Sadhu Singh Dharmosot, and senior officials of the two departments on Tuesday.
Channi said that all the state government and private ITIs, polytechnics and engineering colleges have been issued written instructions in this regard and he will make every effort to personally monitor this campaign.
“It is commonly seen that the saplings planted through various plantation drives were destroyed soon due to lack of care and it leads to nothing but waste of time, plants and resources,” he said adding that under this campaign, students and teachers of all ITIs, polytechnics and engineering colleges of Punjab would adopt these plants to ensure that these sapling would be successfully raised as trees.
During the meeting, Dharamsot said that the sapling required under this campaign would be provided by the Forest Department.