The Army launched a massive tree plantation drive today in the neighbouring Rajasthan. In the inaugural address, General Officer Commanding (GOC) Major General CP Mohanty emphasised the need to plant trees to have a clean and pollution-free environment. Mohanty and his wife Mamun Mohanty were the first to plant saplings. The GOC said the tree plantation drive would continue for the next 15 days and
thousands of saplings would be planted. The Forest Department has offered to give considerable support to the campaign, including provision of plants as well as technical information on tree plantation.
“Tree plantation on such a large scale is a big challenge and we are doing this with limited resources. On the onset of monsoon, the probability of the survival of these plants is more and so, this time has been chosen to organise this drive, General Mohanty said.
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