The Chhattisgarh State Forest Development Corporation has issued a demand note to 47 industries to deposit funds within 15 days for plantation of trees on road side throughout the State under the its ‘Hariyar Chhattisgarh’ project.
Principal Secretary Housing and Environment, Commerce and Industry N Baijendra Kumar held a meeting with the representatives of different industries in this regard on Thursday.
Kumar issued instructions to the representatives of the industries to complete the target of tree plantation for the year 2014-15 with help of State Forest Development Corporation.
He asked them to complete the works as per the decisions taken in the ‘Hariyar Chhattisgarh’ project meeting held under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Raman Singh on June 16. Kumar said that as many as 47 industries have been assigned the target of tree plantation on side of 1486 kilometer long roads across the State for the year 2014-15. This includes the remaining target of the previous year.
The State Forest Development Corporation has issued demand note and assigned targets for each industry has been uploaded on the website www.cgwn.com. The representatives were asked to contact the State Forest Development Corporation for any assistance.
Representatives of 32 industries participated in the meeting including NTPC, NHPCl, GMR, DB Power, JK Cement, JP Cement, Mahaveer Coal limited, etc.
The target assigned for tree plantation includes 140 km for SECl Bilaspur, 100 km for NMDC, 50 km for NTPC Korba, 120 km for BAlCO Korba, 90 km for Bhilai Steel Plant and 100 km for lanco Power limited. Principal Secretary (Forest) Amitabh Jain, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests AK Singh and Managing Director of State Forest Development Corporation AA Boaj were also present in the meeting.