Chief secretary Alok Ranjan on Monday stressed on the need to make an effort for a vigirous campaign to maintain environment balance and set a target of 5 crores saplings on 76,932.23 hectares of land in the existing year. He felt the private participation is must to make this massive campaign a success. Besides, better coordination between different government departments can help to achieve the target..
He said the school going children should be made aware of evvironment balance and importance of planting salp.. Chief secretary directed the officials of the Education department to inspire the school students to plant at least one or two salps during the outgoing drive. He directed the the principle secretaries, secretaries of the department concern, divisional commissioners and district magistrates for better coordination and ensure understanding among the surbodinate staff with an intention to achieve the target. He urged the officals to initiate a programme at the district level to make the masses aware of the drive and also planned a broad-based strategy for achieving the success.
Chief minister felt that Van Mahustaaav should be organised all over the state in the first week of July. He said that the officials of any rank involved in the drive would be held responsible, if any anamolies found and strict action would be taken them. The process of the marking of the land for this purpose would be completed by next month, he added and said that sum of Rs 815.29 crores had been released for the financial year 2014-15 under Farmers Accident Insurance, out which 16,306 farmers were benefitted.