Naya Raipur is the dream city and the imaginations of people of all the regions of the State would be expressed through tree plantation. On the occasion of the sapling plantation at the under construction Van Bhawan situated at Naya Raipur, principal chief forest conservator Dhirendra Sharma said, according to the imagination Chief Minister, Raman Singh, saplings of all the 146 development blocks would be planted in Naya Raipur.
The forest department has completed all preparations for it and CM will inaugurate the campaign soon, Sharma said. He said that saplings and soil have been collected from all the development blocks for this campaign and people from all the blocks would reach Raipur to plant saplings. Under the campaign one lakh saplings of shady, flower and fruit-bearing trees would be planted, he added.
Sharma said that green strips would be developed in all Naya Raipur area and for that sapling plantation has been done in a phased manner.
Naya Raipur Development Authority vice-chairman SS Bajaj said that about 16 hectare land has been earmarked at Kurru village of Naya Raipur in which saplings would be planted. Besides the trees already planted, dense sapling plantation would be done by the sides of the Chherikhedi-Mantralaya road. This time saplings of more than 1.5 metre height would be planted, he added.
Managing director of laghu Vanopaj Sangh AK Singh, additional principal chief forest conservator VK Sinha, chief forest conservator Sanjay Shukla, forest conservator Rakesh Chaturvedi, OP Yadav, DFO SSD Bagdiya, CEO NRDA Amit Kataria, additional CEO Alex Paul Menon and other officers and employees of forest department and NRDA were present on the occasion.