Van Mahotsav celebrations end in Doon

In the last stage of Van Mahotsav celebrations, the Forest Department concluded the programme with a plantation ceremony at the CM’s residence on Wednesday. 

The plantation ceremony was dedicated to those who died in the Uttarakhand disaster. Speaking on the occasion, CM Vijay Bahuguna declared that the State was undergoing a difficult situation and was  facing it with everyone’s support. He added that the state had made a great contribution to the conservation of the environment and it was everyone’s duty to save the environment, since trees, rivers and forest were our true identity.

He asked all the school students present to work towards environment conservation and later distributed plants to the students. Present on the occasion were Principal Forest Conservator Dr RBS Rawat, Forest Corporation MD Dr S Chandola, Chief Forest Conservator, Garhwal, Gambhir Singh, Conservator SV Sharma, DFO Dehradun Sushant Patnayak and Additional Secretary, Forest Department, Manoj Chandran.