Reiterating his commitment to take up plantation exercise in order to restore greenery in the State Chief Minister Raghubar Das has said that a special drive in this regard would kick start from June 15. He, at the same time, also stressed over ensuring people’s participation for resounding results.
“The State Government is going to conduct plantation drive throughout the State from June 15. The exercise would be run on the line of Yojna Banao Abhiyan and participation of the common man would be ensured into that. I believe that only people’s participation can make such programme a success,” said the Chief Minister while reviewing Forest and Environment Department on Wednesday.
He also directed the officials to continue the extraordinary progress made in the field of dova construction. One lakh dovas, or small farm ponds, are being dug by the Agriculture Department along with five lakh other coming up through MGNREGA.
“lakhs of dovas are going to come into existence in sometime from now. The Forest Department should provide 10 samplings to the each beneficiary of dova free of cost to be planted around at least two lakh dovas. The beneficiaries would also be paid for their encouragement. I would also like the Department to continue with plantation exercise in the forest area,” said the CM.
Chief Secretary Rajbala Verma, Principal Secretary to the CM Sanjay Kumar along with Principal Secretary of the Department Sukhdeo Singh, Rural Development Secretary NN Sinha and other officials were present in the meeting.