Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav’s initiative of “Go Green” and make “UP Green” has earned a place in Guinness Book of World Record for planting over 10 lakh saplings in flat eight hours in one day.
Akhilesh Yadav took to twitter to make this announcement. Through his twitter handle @yadavakhilesh Chief Minister declared about UP’s achievement. He wrote: “UP receives the Guinness Book of World record for the largest number of saplings distributed in a day.”
The certificate in this regard was given by the officials of Guinness Book of Record to Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav at the function held in Saifai on Saturday. The same day Oscar award winner musician A R Rahman had performed in Saifai to encourage Green UP campaign.
Rahman too had twitted to say that he would be performing in Saifai on November 21 to encourage Green UP campaign. He had also mentioned UP Government’s feat of planting 10lakh saplings in one day.
Yadav also uploaded the picture of receiving Certificate from the official of Guinness Book of World record.
Chief Minister led the plantation drive from Maudaha in Hamirpur district on November 7. This drive was simultaneously carried out in nine other districts including Sonebhadra, lalitpur, Mirzapur, lakhimpur, Farrukhabad, Chitrakoot, Gautam Budh Nagar and Srawasti.
Saplings of peepal, neem, jamun, pakad, gular, sheesham, kanji, aonla, chilbil and imli were planted. A website ‘upgoesgreen.in’ offered participation certificates to the public and also offered a chance to click a selfie with CM.
A mobile app for the campaign too was developed. People were asked to join the campaign by clicking their selfie while planting a tree and post it on the website.
“The programme was executed through coordinated efforts of forest, irrigation departments, Noida and Greater Noida authority. Between 8.30 am to 4.30 pm, more than 10.15 lakh plants were either planted or distributed for the area of 850 hectare," a government spokesman said.