Preparations are going on in full swing for making the ambitious plantation campaign of the state government a grand success in the state. Both the district administration and the Forest department have stepped up their activities to achieve the target given to the district by the state government for the first phase of the drive on Saturday. In this phase, 15,09,303 saplings will be planted in the district out of 30 crore in UP. In the second phase, the plantation target of 3,66,198 saplings in Varanasi out of five crore in the state has been given for August 15. To review the preparations of this massive plantation drive, a meeting was held under the chairmanship of nodal officer of the district and Chairman of Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Ltd (UPPCL), Lucknow, M Devraj in which the participants discussed the preparations for achieving the first phase of the target. District Forest Officer (DFO) gave details about the progress, including pit digging, availability of plants in the government nursery, plant transportation, Plantation Monitoring System (PMS), progress of Network Management System (NMS) portal, preparation of special forest, public participation, public awareness programme, medium of publicity etc.
Speaking on the occasion, Chairman of District Tree Plantation Committee and District Magistrate S Rajalingam, giving details to the nodal officer, said 100 per cent progress of digging pits for plantation has been made for the first phase drive while dividing all areas into sectors and zones. He also informed about the deployment of sector and zonal magistrates and plans of the district level officers visiting different areas to monitor the progress of the campaign. Addressing the meeting, Devraj directed all officers concerned that all departments should complete 100 per cent tree plantation work as per the target by paying special attention to security, necessary arrangements and proper monitoring work. He said that after the drive on Saturday, the reports of tree plantation should be sent by the chief development officer (CDO) to the control room set up at the district level on time so that the process of uploading the gradual progress of tree plantation through the online control room can be done. “On the date of tree plantation, immediately after tree plantation by the departments concerned, the process of geo-tagging will be completed on 100 per cent priority basis,” he said, adding that all these actions are to be monitored at the state level through the departmental portal so information should be uploaded on the departmental portal within the prescribed time period.
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Preparations are going on in full swing for making the ambitious plantation campaign of the state government a grand success in the state. Both the district administration and the Forest department have stepped up their activities to achieve the target given to the district by the state government for the first phase of the drive on Saturday. In this phase, 15,09,303 saplings will be planted in the district out of 30 crore in UP. In the second phase, the plantation target of 3,66,198 saplings in Varanasi out of five crore in the state has been given for August 15. To review the preparations of this massive plantation drive, a meeting was held under the chairmanship of nodal officer of the district and Chairman of Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Ltd (UPPCL), Lucknow, M Devraj in which the participants discussed the preparations for achieving the first phase of the target. District Forest Officer (DFO) gave details about the progress, including pit digging, availability of plants in the government nursery, plant transportation, Plantation Monitoring System (PMS), progress of Network Management System (NMS) portal, preparation of special forest, public participation, public awareness programme, medium of publicity etc.
Speaking on the occasion, Chairman of District Tree Plantation Committee and District Magistrate S Rajalingam, giving details to the nodal officer, said 100 per cent progress of digging pits for plantation has been made for the first phase drive while dividing all areas into sectors and zones. He also informed about the deployment of sector and zonal magistrates and plans of the district level officers visiting different areas to monitor the progress of the campaign. Addressing the meeting, Devraj directed all officers concerned that all departments should complete 100 per cent tree plantation work as per the target by paying special attention to security, necessary arrangements and proper monitoring work. He said that after the drive on Saturday, the reports of tree plantation should be sent by the chief development officer (CDO) to the control room set up at the district level on time so that the process of uploading the gradual progress of tree plantation through the online control room can be done. “On the date of tree plantation, immediately after tree plantation by the departments concerned, the process of geo-tagging will be completed on 100 per cent priority basis,” he said, adding that all these actions are to be monitored at the state level through the departmental portal so information should be uploaded on the departmental portal within the prescribed time period.